No one came to our neighborhoods with stand-up jobs and showed us there’s a different way. Maybe, had I seen different role models, maybe I’d’ve turned on to that.

Jay-Z

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I don’t sit around with my friends and talk about money, ever. On a record, that’s different.

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I don’t sit around with my friends and talk about money, ever. On a record, that’s different.
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Album Around Ever Friend Record
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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Extension Like Run
By the time I got to record my first album, I was 26, I didn’t need pen or paper – my memory had been trained just to listen to a song, think of the words, and lay them to tape.
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My first album didn’t come out until I was 26.

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My first album didn’t come out until I was 26.
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When you’re accustomed to wealth, you don’t show it, right? That’s why the white kids in school could wear bummy sneakers; it’s almost like, ‘Don’t show wealth – that’s crass.’

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When you’re accustomed to wealth, you don’t show it, right? That’s why the white kids in school could wear bummy sneakers; it’s almost like, ‘Don’t show wealth – that’s crass.’
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Just strengthening that theme that America is a place of opportunity and hoping to inspire people to fulfill those opportunities, and to want more, and to want better, and to see the places we can go. So many people identify with me because of the place that I come from.
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Fulfill Inspire Just More Strengthening Theme
I think reviews have lost a lot of their importance now because of the Internet; everyone is experiencing things at the same time.
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Music is everywhere – you consume it every day, everywhere you go. The content creator should be compensated. It’s only fair.

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Music is everywhere – you consume it every day, everywhere you go. The content creator should be compensated. It’s only fair.
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Compensate Consume Creator Day Every Everywhere Fair Only
No one came to our neighborhoods with stand-up jobs and showed us there’s a different way. Maybe, had I seen different role models, maybe I’d’ve turned on to that.

JAY-Z

No one came to our neighborhoods with stand-up jobs and showed us there’s a different way. Maybe, had I seen different role models, maybe I’d’ve turned on to that.
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Came Neighbourhood Our Way
What are you talking about? Wait a minute, you’re getting out of the zone.’ People hate when people cross lines.

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What are you talking about? Wait a minute, you’re getting out of the zone.’ People hate when people cross lines.
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Get Minute Out Read Zone
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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When I came into the music, I was forced to be a CEO. I was forced to be an entrepreneur; I was forced to… because I was looking for a deal. I didn’t have this grand scheme of starting a record company and then morphing into a clothing empire.
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Clothing Empire Grand Morphing Record Scheme Starting
I’m just saying the producers and people who work on music are getting left out – that’s when it starts getting criminal. It’s like you’re working hard, and you’re not receiving. In any other business, people would be standing before Congress. They have antitrust laws against this kind of behavior.
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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 Second Thre Two
Religion is like a personal computer. You let people in if you want to… We’re all gods.

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Religion is like a personal computer. You let people in if you want to… We’re all gods.
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All Computer Let
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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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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