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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

I’m just making an observation. They’re crying out for the love that maybe they didn’t get at home, and they got everything.
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Cry Everything Home Love Make Maybe Obsevative
I love what I do, and when you love what you do, you want to be the best at it.
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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
I think relationships are broken up because of the media.
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Broken Media Relationship
If your dad died before you were born, yeah, it hurts – but it’s not like you had a connection with something that was real. Not to say it’s any better – but to have that connection and then have it ripped away was, like, the worst.
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Away Better Born Connection Die Like Real Reap Something Yeah
What people have to understand is ‘Billboard’ is a magazine. They’re like elected officials – they work for us.
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Billboard Elected Magazine Official People Understand Work
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
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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Charming Fun More Person President Rock Star Talk Ultimate
I have no idea what my teacher’s intentions were – whether she was trying to inspire us or if she actually thought visiting her Manhattan brownstone with her view of Central Park qualified as a school trip.
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Actual Brownstone Idea Inspire Intension Qualify School Teacher Thought Trip Try Visit
One of the reasons inequality gets so deep in this country is that everyone wants to be rich. That’s the American ideal.
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Country Deep Everyone Get Ideal Inequality One Reason Rich Want
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
I’ve got a nice collection of paintings – a Basquiat, a black-and-white Warhol that’s like a Rorschach test, and I commissioned Takashi Murakami to do a ten-foot joint for me. It’s almost like the explosion in Hiroshima with his famous skeleton head. There’s a wall above my fireplace reserved for it.
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Collection Commission Country Nice Painting Person Test White
I was a really good student. In the sixth grade, I was reading at a twelfth grade reading level. But I got bored.
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Bore Good Grade Raed Really Six Student Twentieth
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
I remember the first time I saw the ‘Sugarhill Gang’ on Soul Train. I was 11 or 12. I was like, ‘What’s going on? How did those guys get on national TV?’ And then, when I was a little older, a rapper from the neighborhood got a record deal. I was shocked.
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First Gang Remember Show Soul Sugarhill Time Train
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

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