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One of the reasons inequality gets so deep in this country is that everyone wants to be rich. That’s the American ideal.

Jay-Z

We have to stretch out the audience. It can’t be this narrow – we have to stretch out the point of view.
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Audience Narrow Out Point Stretch View
Everyone knows I’m married; I just don’t discuss it. Because it’s a part of my life that I’d rather keep private… When your whole life is played out in front of everybody, for your sanity, you need parts that are just yours.
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Discuss Everyone Keep Know Life Married Part Private Rather
People wanted to make products based on our child’s name, and you don’t want anybody trying to benefit off your baby’s name.
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Anybody Baby Benefit Child Make Name People Want Product Try Want
I feel like with the history of this platform, from vinyl to where we are now, it just seems like the next logical step.
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Feel History Like Logical Next Now Platform Step Vinyl
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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My brands are an extension of me. They’re close to me. It’s not like running GM, where there’s no emotional attachment.
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I’ve always wanted to stay true to myself, and I’ve managed to do that. People have to accept that.
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Around 20. I’d been trying to transition from the streets to the music business, but I would make demos and then quit for six months. And I started to realize that I couldn’t be successful until I let the street life go.
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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 don’t know where streaming will go in the future. The analytics that we’re seeing tell us that streaming is the next thing, and downloads are going down.
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When the TV version of Annie came on, I was drawn to it. It was the struggle of this poor kid in this environment and how her life changed. It immediately resonated.
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When you have a reputation for making not only good songs but great albums, that in itself creates added artistic pressure. But, at the end of the day, I guess that pressure is something I welcome.
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Hip-hop has done so much for racial relations, and I don’t think it’s given the proper credit. It has changed America immensely.
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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’ve talked to Bill Clinton – he’s the ultimate rock star; no one’s more charming than him. People clap in a restaurant when he finishes dinner! I don’t get that treatment. I get it when I walk onstage, but not when I have dinner.
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That’s why this generation is the least racist generation ever. You see it all the time. Go to any club.
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Any Club Ever Generation Go Least Racist Time

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