Jay-Z Quotes
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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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Cough up a lung where I'm from marcy son, aint nothin nice
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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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I think Lil Wayne is extremely talented. I think he's one of the most talented ones out there.
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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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The genius thing that we did was, we didn't give up.
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I get my by any means on, whenever there's a drought get your umbrellas out because that's when I brainstorm.
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That's why this generation is the least racist generation ever. You see it all the time. Go to any club. People are intermingling, hanging out, having fun, enjoying the same music. Hip-hop is not just in the Bronx anymore. It's worldwide. Everywhere you go, people are listening to hip-hop and partying together. Hip-hop has done that.
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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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Ex-D-boy, used to park my Beamer Now look at me, I can park in my own arena
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Racism is taught in the home. We agree on that? Well, it's very hard to teach racism to a teenager who's listening to rap music and who idolizes, say, Snoop Dogg. It's hard to say, 'That guy is less than you.' The kid is like, 'I like that guy, he's cool. How is he less than me?
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Treat my first like my last and the last like my first and my thirst is the same as- when I came.
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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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By the time I got to record my first album, I was 26, I didn't need pen or paper - my memory had been trained just to listen to a song, think of the words, and lay them to tape.
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For me, being with Obama or having dinner with Bill Clinton... It's crazy. It's mind-blowing, because where I come from is just another world. We were just ignored by politicians, by America in general.
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Males shouldnt be jealous. Thats a female trait.
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Screamin' 'Carpe Diem!' until I'm a Dead Poet.
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Life is for living, not living uptight, see ya somewhere up in the sky.
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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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I believe you can speak things into existence.
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[T]he truth is that drug addicts have a disease. It only takes a short time in the streets to realize that out-of-control addiction is a medical problem, not a form of recreational or criminal behavior. And the more society treats drug addiction as a crime, the more money drug dealers will make "relieving" the suffering of the addicts.
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A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
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It's always been most important for me to figure out "my space" rather than trying to check out what everyone else is up to, minute by minute. Technology is making it easier to connect to other people, but maybe harder to keep connected to yourself-- and that's essential for any artist, I think.
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People really feel like music is free, but will pay $6 for water. You can drink water free out of the tap and it's good water. But they're okay paying for it. It's just the mindset right now.