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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.
Jay-Z
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Jay-Z
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: December 4
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Difficult takes a day Impossible takes a week I do this in my sleep
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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 smoked some weed, and that's how I finished 'Izzo.'
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