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Nas has reminisced about his close friend Amy Winehouse, describing her as someone who "could always make people laugh."

The two formed a close friendship in the years before Amy passed, with the singer even recording a song dedicated to her crush on the rapper.

Now, almost five months after her death, Nas has shared some of his memories of his time with the songstress. "We heard about each other [before meeting], of course, and we knew we shared the same birthday," Nas said in an documentary about Amy's posthumous album Lioness: Hidden Treasures.

"Salaam [Remi] would tell us we both reminded him of each other. So, it was cool to see my crazy twin. She was hilarious, She would make you laugh. To her, music came so easy. Everyone else around her, I don't know but I'm assuming they wanted her to put out a new record, but to her, she can't do it unless it's really time."

"Whenever that time is, only time will tell. She just can't give you a record because she's hot and it's gonna sell records. Nah, that wasn't her style. She was so nonchalant about it that it reminded me of myself," he added.

Nas also described his collaboration on Lioness as "bittersweet," explaining: "It's a bittersweet feeling to do something with her now that she's not here. I'm happy. The sweet part is that fans have new music from her, new because they've never heard it."

"The bitter part is that she's no longer her to really give it to us and deliver her music and for us to see her smile and hear her voice," he added.

Amy tragically died in July due to a misadventure of alcohol. Read our review of Lioness: Hidden Treasures here.

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