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No matter where you go you are what you are player and you can try to change but that's just the top layer man you was who you was before you got here
Jay-Z
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Jay-Z
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: December 4
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Wherever I go, I bring the culture with me, so that they can understand that it's attainable. I didn't do it any other way than through hip-hop.
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Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so Obama could run. Obama's running so we all can fly.
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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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A wise man told me don't argue with fools. Cause people from a distance can't tell who is who.
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I will not lose, for even in defeat/There's a valuable lesson learned, so it evens up for me
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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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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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If I don't show the world growth, how are we going to grow?
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Everybody look at you strange, say you changed Like you work that hard to stay the same.
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I'm not saying I'm God. But as far as lyrics, I'm God MC.
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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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Put me anywhere on God's green earth, I'll triple my worth. Motherf--. I, will, not, lose.
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No one's walking around here perfect. Everyone's gonna make mistakes. That's part of how you learn.
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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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Hip-hop is a perfect mix between poetry and boxing.
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Difficult takes a day Impossible takes a week I do this in my sleep
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I don't even like the word politics. It implies something underhanded and I think we need less government.
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