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The average rap life is two or three albums. You’re lucky to get to your second album in rap!

Jay-Z

Your job is to inspire people from your neighborhood to get out.
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Inspire Job Neighbourhoodm Out People
I have inherited two of the most important brands in hip-hop, Def Jam and Roc-A-Fella. Reid and Universal Music Group have given me the opportunity to manage the companies I have contributed to my whole career. I feel this is a giant step for me and the entire artist community.
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I’ve said the election of Obama has made the hustler less relevant. People took it in a way that I was almost dismissing what I am. And I was like, ‘No, it’s a good thing!’
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Country Election Hustler President Relevant Said
Around 20. I’d been trying to transition from the streets to the music business, but I would make demos and then quit for six months. And I started to realize that I couldn’t be successful until I let the street life go.
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Around Been Business Demos Make Month Music Quit Six Street Transition Twenty
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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Audience Narrow Out Point Stretch View
I know I’m a different person. But nothing can erase that era, those times, those memories, those fights to get ‘Roc-A-fella’ where it was.
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Different Era Erase Fight Get Memories Nothing Person Time
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
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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Country Fulfill Hope Inspire Just More Opportunity People Place Strengthening Theme Want
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
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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Further Giant Glant Midget Shoulder Stand
Hip-hop has done more for race relations than most cultural icons; and I say save Martin Luther King, because his ‘I Have A Dream’ speech was realized when Obama was elected into office.
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Culture Done Dream Hip Hop Icon More Most President Relation Say Speech
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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Attain Big Hip Hop More People Respect Sucess Wealth
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
I think relationships are broken up because of the media.
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Broken Media Relationship
As an artist, you make music. And if you see people who don’t know how to market your music, you get involved in it. Otherwise, what you want to accomplish ‘gets lost in translation’ – no pun intended.
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Artist Intend Involved Make Market Music People See Translate
I’ve never looked at myself and said that I need to be a certain way to be around a certain sort of people.
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Around Certain Look Myself Need never People Said Sort Way

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