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I was a really good student. In the sixth grade, I was reading at a twelfth grade reading level. But I got bored.

Jay-Z

I don’t think any rapper can go back. You can be a car salesman, a bank teller – I mean, really good jobs, and people are still gonna look at you and be like, ‘You used to rap; what happened?’
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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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Do you know how many athletes go broke three years after they stop playing? I want to help them hold on to their money. I mean, I know about budgets.
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People wanted to make products based on our child’s name, and you don’t want anybody trying to benefit off your baby’s name.
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Rap for me is like making movies, telling stories, and getting the emotions of the songs through in just as deep a way.
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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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My first album didn’t come out until I was 26.
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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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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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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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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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They say a midget standing on a giant’s shoulders can see much further than the giant. So I got the whole rap world on my shoulders, they trying to see further than I am.
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It was a weird mix of emotions. One day, your best friend could be killed. The day before, you could be celebrating him getting a brand-new bike.
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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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It wasn’t until sixth grade, at P.S. 168, when my teacher took us on a field trip to her house that I realized we were poor.
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As kids, we didn’t complain about being poor; we talked about how rich we were going to be and made moves to get the lifestyle we aspired to by any means we could.
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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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