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Belief in oneself and knowing who you are, I mean, that’s the foundation for everything great.

Jay-Z

My first album didn’t come out until I was 26.
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Album Come First Out Six Twenty Until
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
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 don’t profess to be a political rapper, like groups such as ‘Dead Prez’ or ‘Public Enemy’, but I think social commentary should make its way into your music. Speaking on your neighbourhood is social commentary – what happens, what’s going on.
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I’m hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That’s what this world is about.
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Brighter Day Every Hungry Knowledge Learn Thing World
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
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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Basquait Celebrity Collide Country Hand Out People Person Those Word
That was the greatest trick in music that people ever pulled off, to convince artists that you can’t be an artist and make money. I think the people that were making the millions said that. It was almost shameful, especially in rock n’ roll.
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Artist Greatest Make Money Music People Pull Trick
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
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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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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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
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 Content Creator Day Every Everywhere Fair Music Only
I’m far from being god, but I work god damn hard.
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Far God Hard Work
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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I don’t have any fear of working with Samsung because I’m not gonna let them put a phone on my forehead; that’s just never gonna happen.
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