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Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so Obama could run. Obama’s running so we all can fly.

Jay-Z

When you’re growing up, your dad is your superhero. Once you’ve let yourself fall that in love with someone, once you put him on such a high pedestal and he lets you down, you never want to experience that pain again.
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Dad Fall Grow High Once Put Someone Such Superhero Yourself
I treat people based on who they really are, not the name. Everyone has to be respectful and be a human being. No one’s above… That’s how I carry it with anybody.
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Everyone Human Being Name People Really Respectful Treat
My first album was mainly dealing with street issues, and it was ‘coded’: it was called ‘Reasonable Doubt.’ So the things I was talking about…
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Album Call Code Deal Doubt First Issue Mainly Reasonable Stress Talk
New York – I’m connected. This is my core. I feel like if I’m not connected to New York, then I don’t even know what to do with myself.
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Connect Core Country Even Feel Know Like Myself
If just the presence of Tidal causes other companies to have better pay structure or to pay more attention to it moving forward, then we’ve been successful in one way. So we don’t really view them as competitors. As the tide rises, all the boats rise.
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Attention Better Cause Company Forward More Move Pay Presence Structure Ther Tidal
Nothing me and Kanye can do musically was gonna match the event of what we were trying to do. So we were trying to deliver an album and experience at one time; that was the idea for ‘Watch The Throne’.
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Album Country Deliver Do Event Experience Gonna Ide Match Musically Nothing People Try
I’m hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That’s what this world is about.
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Brighter Day Every Hungry Knowledge Learn Thing World
I try to make music with emotion and integrity. And authenticity.
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Authenticity Emotion Feel Integrity Make Music Something Try
I made the Yankee hat more famous than a Yankee can.
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Famous Made More Yankee
My thing is related to who I am as a person. The clothes are an extension of me. The music is an extension of me. All my businesses are part of the culture, so I have to stay true to whatever I’m feeling at the time, whatever direction I’m heading in. And hopefully, everyone follows.
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Clother Extension Music Person Relate Thing
Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so Obama could run. Obama’s running so we all can fly.
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Country Fly People Person President Run Walk
The burden of poverty isn’t just that you don’t always have the things you need, it’s the feeling of being embarrassed every day of your life, and you’d do anything to lift that burden.
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Always Being Burden Day Embarrassment Every Feeling Life Need Poverty Thing
I can think of no one more relevant and credible in the hip-hop community to build upon Def Jam’s fantastic legacy and move the company into its next groundbreaking era.
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Build Community Credibility Hip Hop More Relevant Think Upon
I was talking about in slang, and it was something that people in the music business was not really privy to. They didn’t understand totally what I was saying or what I was talking about.
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Business Music People Privy Say Slang Sometimes Talk Totally Understand
I listen to everything – from Sarah McLachlan and Alanis Morissette all the way down to rap like Scarface, UGK and Lauryn Hill.
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Country Everything Listen People Person Way
I would run into the corner store, the bodega, and just grab a paper bag or buy juice – anything just to get a paper bag. And I’d write the words on the paper bag and stuff these ideas in my pocket until I got back. Then I would transfer them into the notebook.
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Anything Bag Come Grab Juice Paper Run Store

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