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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.

Jay-Z

Hip-hop has done so much for racial relations, and I don’t think it’s given the proper credit. It has changed America immensely.
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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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The challenge is to get everyone to respect music again, to recognize its value.
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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 came into this music business at 26 years old. I was a fully developed man at that point. At that age, I didn’t have anything to prove.
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Your job is to inspire people from your neighborhood to get out.
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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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I grew up in Marcy Projects in Brooklyn, and my mom and pop had an extensive record collection, so Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder and all of those sounds and souls of Motown filled the house.
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I think reviews have lost a lot of their importance now because of the Internet; everyone is experiencing things at the same time.
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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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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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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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Music is the soundtrack to your life. It’s not going to go anywhere. But the way people are purchasing music has changed. It’s not the same anymore. It will never be the same.
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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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The average rap life is two or three albums. You’re lucky to get to your second album in rap!
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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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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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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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