Jay-Z Quotes
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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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I believe you can speak things into existence.
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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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Don't ever go with the flow. Be the flow.
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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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Life is for living, not living uptight, see ya somewhere up in the sky.
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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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If the beat is time, flow is what we do with that time, how we live through it. The beat is everywhere, but every life has to find its own flow.
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Driving Benzes with no benefits, not bad huh, for some immigrants?
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I ain't lookin' at you dudes -I'm lookin' past you.
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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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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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I think Lil Wayne is extremely talented. I think he's one of the most talented ones out there.
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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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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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Hip-hop gave a generation a common ground that didn't require either race to lose anything; everyone gained.
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Males shouldnt be jealous. Thats a female trait.
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Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who've never done anything because if you haven't been successful, then you don't know how it feels to lose it all.
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People who don't know you, you don't know their motives. They smile at you all day, "Oh, that's great. You've done it again! You're the greatest!" And that's not good for an artist.
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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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Put me anywhere on God's green earth, I'll triple my worth. Motherf--. I, will, not, lose.
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Hip-hop is a perfect mix between poetry and boxing.
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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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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.