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Hip-hop is a perfect mix between poetry and boxing.
Jay-Z
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Jay-Z
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: December 4
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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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When you're growing up, your dad is your superhero. Once you've let yourself fall that in love with someone, once you put him on such a high pedestal and he lets you down, you never want to experience that pain again.
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If your dad died before you were born, yeah, it hurts — but it’s not like you had a connection with something that was real. Not to say it’s any better — but to have that connection and then have it ripped away was, like, the worst. My dad was such a good dad that when he left, he left a huge scar. He was my superhero.
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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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Don't tell me what was said about me. Tell me why they were so comfortable to say it to you.
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Everyone needs a chance to evolve.
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My tears is tatted, my rag in my pocket / Im just looking for love, I know somebody got it
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I got 99 Problems but Mitt ain't one.
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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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You learn more in failure than you ever do in success
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The genius thing that we did was, we didn't give up.
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So many people that I've seen can't get clean water. It's a crime.
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I smoked some weed, and that's how I finished 'Izzo.'
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Stop screamin', you know the demon said it's best to die, And even if Jehovah witness, bet he'll never testify, D'Evils.
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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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I use a lot of double meanings. I hide 'em like Easter eggs.
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Growing up, politics never trickled down to the areas we come from. But people from Obama's camp, and Obama himself, reached out to me and asked for my help on the campaign. We've sat and had dinner, and we've spoken on the phone. He's a very sharp guy. Very charming. Very cool.
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I was forced to be an artist and a CEO from the beginning, so I was forced to be like a businessman because when I was trying to get a record deal, it was so hard to get a record deal on my own that it was either give up or create my own company.
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I'm not a businessman, I'm a business, man!
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If skills sold truth be told I'd probably be lyrically Talib Kweli Truthfully I want to rhyme like Common Sense (But I did five Mil) I ain't been rhyming like Common since.
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