Jay-Z Quotes
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When you listen to an album, it shouldn't feel like, "That's the girl song," "That's the club song." I shouldn't know what you're thinking while you're making the song. I don't want to know what the artist is thinking.
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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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Jay Hov about to change my name to Jay Pesobut in a meantime called me William H thoughon a platinum Yamaha got the engine gunningthrowing it up like liquor on an empty stomach.
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Cough up a lung where I'm from marcy son, aint nothin nice
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I couldn't even think about wanting to be something else; I wouldn't let myself visualize another life. But I wrote because I couldn't stop. It was a release, a mental exercise, a way of keeping sane.
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As sure as this Earth is turnin, souls burnin / In search of higher learnin, turnin in every direction seeking direction / My moms cryin cause her insides are dyin / Her son tryin her patience, keep her heart racin / A million beats a minute, I know I push you to your limit / But it's this game, love—I'm caught up all in it / They make it so you can't prevent it, never give it / You gotta take it, can't fake it, I keep it authentic
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Hip-hop gave a generation a common ground that didn't require either race to lose anything; everyone gained.
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As fate would have it, Jay's status appears To be at an all-time high, perfect time to say goodbye When I come back like Jordan, wearing the 4-5.
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Put me anywhere on God's green earth, I'll triple my worth. Motherf--. I, will, not, lose.
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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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If I don't show the world growth, how are we going to grow?
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I ain't lookin' at you dudes -I'm lookin' past you.
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Niggas pray and pray on my downfall, But every time I hit the ground I bounce up like round ball
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My thing is related to who I am as a person. The clothes are an extension of me. The music is an extension of me. All my businesses are part of the culture, so I have to stay true to whatever I'm feeling at the time, whatever direction I'm heading in. And hopefully, everyone follows.
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I'm gonna fight, and I'm gonna make something out of nothing. That's pretty much the American dream. So, for me, the realization that I could speak to people like that came first on a small scale. Then it just started happening. I started having this vibration.
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Life is for living, not living uptight, see ya somewhere up in the sky.
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I'm trying to tell the story in the most clear, concise, and truthful way, taking those everyday words and phrases and capturing them in a way that they become something else.
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Hip-hop is a perfect mix between poetry and boxing.
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I believe you can speak things into existence.
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I really just like breaking down the barriers, whether it means doing an album with Linkin Park, an album with R. Kelly, or playing at the Brandenburg Gate with Bono.
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Males shouldnt be jealous. Thats a female trait.
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Ex-D-boy, used to park my Beamer Now look at me, I can park in my own arena
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Used to rock a throwback ballin on the corner, now I rock tailored suit lookin' like a owner.
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Electing a black man named Barack Obama President in the same country that elected George W. Bush - twice! - is as far-fetched as a hustler from Marcy performing at that President's inauguration. But it happened.