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I think reviews have lost a lot of their importance now because of the Internet; everyone is experiencing things at the same time.

Jay-Z

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
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
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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Analytics Download Future Know Next Stream Time
Hip-hop is more about attaining wealth. People respect success. They respect big. They don’t even have to like your music. If you’re big enough, people are drawn to you.
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Attain Big Hip Hop More People Respect Sucess Wealth
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
No, I’m not interested in politics. I have zero interest. I have interest in hope and people.
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Hope Interest No People Politics Zero
My mom always taught me – you know, little boys listen to their moms too much – that whatever you put into something is what you’re going to get out of it.
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Always Boy Go Know Listen Mom Something Taught Whatever
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
If I go into a studio and find my truth of the moment, there are a number of people in the world who can relate to what I’m saying and are going to buy into what I’m doing. Not because it’s the new thing of the moment, but because it’s genuine emotion. Its how I feel. This is how I articulate the world.
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Find Go Moment Number People Relate Say Studio Truth World
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 Failure Fear People Successful
Obama provides hope. Whether he does anything, the hope that he provides for a nation and outside of America is enough. Just being who he is. You’re the first black president. If he speaks on any issue or anything, he should be left alone.
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Anything Country Does Enough Hope Man Nation Outside President Provide
The average rap life is two or three albums. You’re lucky to get to your second album in rap!
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Album Average Life Luck Rap Second Thre Two
It was a weird mix of emotions. One day, your best friend could be killed. The day before, you could be celebrating him getting a brand-new bike.
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Best Brand Celebrating Day Emotion Friend Getting One Weird
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
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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Album Artistic Create End Good Great Guess Make Only Pressure Reputation Something Song
I’ve always believed in good music over bad music. I believe in two sorts of musics. And the lines that separate us, I don’t believe in that. That’s for people who need to easily define what they’re hearing. Me, I’m cool with everything and anything I’m hearing that’s music. It comes under one definition for me.
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Always Bad Believe Good Music Over

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