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I love what I do, and when you love what you do, you want to be the best at it.

Jay-Z

I love what I do, and when you love what you do, you want to be the best at it.
JAY-Z

Best Love Want When
Racism is taught in the home. We agree on that? Well, it’s very hard to teach racism to a teenager who’s listening to rap music and who idolizes, say, Snoop Dogg. It’s hard to say, ‘That guy is less than you.’ The kid is like, ‘I like that guy, he’s cool. How is he less than me?
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Agree Hard Home Idolize Listen Music Racism Rap Taught Teach Teenage
As an artist, you make music. And if you see people who don’t know how to market your music, you get involved in it. Otherwise, what you want to accomplish ‘gets lost in translation’ – no pun intended.
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Artist Intend Involved Make Market Music People See Translate
I’ll make a song with Rick Rubin, a song with Beyonce, a song with Lenny Kravitz. I just believe in making good music. I’m not trying to section myself off into just making hard-core rap music.
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Country Involve Make Market Music People Person Song
The experiences that I’ve had growing up with music, you know, I couldn’t trade them for any money in the world. Dancing in the living room to enjoy myself. ‘Enjoy Yourself,’ Michael Jackson.
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Experience Grow Know Money Music Trade World
Religion is like a personal computer. You let people in if you want to… We’re all gods.
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All Computer God Let People Personal Religion
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.
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All Business Culture Direction Feeling Heading Part Stay Time True
Companies that pretend to care about music and really care about other things – whether it be hardware, whether it be advertising – and now they look at music as a loss leader. And we know music isn’t a loss leader; music is an important part of our lives.
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Advertise Care Company Hardware Music Other Pretend Relly Thing
Poor people don’t like talking about poverty because even though they might live in the projects surrounded by other poor people and have, like, ten dollars in the bank they don’t like to think of themselves as poor.
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might People Poor Project Surround Talk Themselves Think
I’m going to make a very bold statement: Hip-hop has done more than any leader, politician, or anyone to improve race relations.
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Anyone Bold Hip Hop Improve Leader Make Politician Race Relation Statement Very
My dad was such a good dad that when he left, he left a huge scar. He was my superhero.
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Dad Good Huge Just Left Scare Superhero
Wherever I go, I bring the culture with me, so that they can understand that it’s attainable. I didn’t do it any other way than through hip-hop.
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Attainable Bring Culture Go Hip Hop Through Understand
I was never a worker. And that’s not even being arrogant. I was just never a worker.
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Arrogant Being Even never Worker
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
We were living in a tough situation, but my mother managed; she juggled. Sometimes we’d pay the light bill, sometimes we paid the phone, sometimes the gas went off.
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Juggled Live Manage Mother She Situation Tough
Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who’ve never done anything because if you haven’t been successful, then you don’t know how it feels to lose it all.
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Anything Bigger Done Failure Fear never People Success Successful

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