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We wasn’t allowed inside the galleries or inside Yankee Stadium. We were writing in the street and making music.

Jay-Z

I would run into the corner store, the bodega, and just grab a paper bag or buy juice – anything just to get a paper bag. And I’d write the words on the paper bag and stuff these ideas in my pocket until I got back. Then I would transfer them into the notebook.
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Anything Bag Come Grab Juice Paper Run Store
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
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
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
I made the Yankee hat more famous than a Yankee can.
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Famous Made More Yankee
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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Bore Get Level Minute Out Read Talk Zone
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
The burden of poverty isn’t just that you don’t always have the things you need, it’s the feeling of being embarrassed every day of your life, and you’d do anything to lift that burden.
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Always Being Burden Day Embarrassment Every Feeling Life Need Poverty Thing
The challenge is to get everyone to respect music again, to recognize its value.
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Again Challenge Everyone Respect Music Recognize Value
People really feel like music is free but will pay $6 for water. You can drink water free out of the tap, and it’s good water. But they’re OK paying for it.
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Feel Like Music Pay People Realy Water
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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You can feel when something’s authentic, and you can feel when it’s not: you know when someone’s trying to make the club record, or trying to make the girl record, or trying to make the thug record. It’s none of that. It’s just my emotions.
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Authentic Club Emotion Feel Girl Make None Record Someone Something Try
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
Nothing me and Kanye can do musically was gonna match the event of what we were trying to do. So we were trying to deliver an album and experience at one time; that was the idea for ‘Watch The Throne’.
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Album Country Deliver Do Event Experience Gonna Ide Match Musically Nothing People Try
Everyone who makes music is a good collaborator at their foundation because in order to make music, you have to connect to it in a way that other people can’t.
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Collaborator Everyone Foundation Good Make Music Other
You don’t have that fear. So why do you think people get stuck in those boxes? It’s that fear of going back down.
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Back Boz Down Fear People Stuck Think

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