We wasn’t allowed inside the galleries or inside Yankee Stadium. We were writing in the street and making music.
JAY-ZI am against discrimination of any kind, but if I make snap judgments, no matter who it’s towards, aren’t I committing the same sin as someone who profiles?
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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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My first album didn’t come out until I was 26.
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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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When Basquiat was hanging out with Madonna and Fab Five Freddy, and all those worlds were colliding, people have to realize hip-hop and the arts were like this ’cause we both were outcasts.
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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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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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I was forced to be an artist and a CEO from the beginning, so I was forced to be like a businessman because when I was trying to get a record deal, it was so hard to get a record deal on my own that it was either give up or create my own company.
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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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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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Belief in oneself and knowing who you are, I mean, that’s the foundation for everything great.
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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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I was never a worker. And that’s not even being arrogant. I was just never a worker.
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Poor people don’t like talking about poverty because even though they might live in the projects surrounded by other poor people and have, like, ten dollars in the bank they don’t like to think of themselves as poor.
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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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Your job is to inspire people from your neighborhood to get out.
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