There are very few people from my neighborhood that make it out. Forget about being successful, I mean making it out alive or just incarcerated. I have a great friend who just came home, one of the most beautiful people you’d ever meet; he just came home from doing 13 years. And we were together every single day. Back then there was a guy by the name of Jazz who I started out with. He had a deal with EMI. He had the opportunity to go to London to record his album. I went along with him for two months. In those two months there was a sting operation and they took my friend I’m talking about, for 13 years. The only reason I wasn’t there was because I was away doing this music stuff. Had it not been for music, and music taking me out at the right time, my life could very easily have been his, very easily. - Jay-Z
via Forbes
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Jay-Z Addresses Freemason/Illuminati Rumors &Jay-Z Speaks On Birdman Saying Lil Wayne Is More Lyrical & Makes More Money

“I think I need to remind people I’m from Marcy Projects. You can’t get into those prestigious clubs. I can’t even get into the golf club in Palm Springs.” (In response to Illuminati and Freemason rumors)
“This rap music and the competitive by nature, nothing really surprises me anymore but I’ll honestly say, that was one that was like a shocker. When you from a certain place, cut from a certain cloth, there’s certain things that’s just off limits. When you cross that line, it puts you in a different box.” I think people are running out of ideas and it’s all marketing at this point.(In response to Beanie Segal disses)
- Jay-Z
full interview
The Director Of, “On To The Next One,” Speaks
Jay-Z Speaks On Birdman Saying Lil Wayne Is More Lyrical & Makes More MoneyWatch when Jay talks about the money part, this is priceless, this moment Vs the 'men lie women lie, numbers don't', its a tie...lol
“African-Americans were very rarely considered pop culture,” he says from behind o
ne of his color-blind podiums. “When Whitney became pop, she did a lot of things that were
not necessarily her. Look at her first album” — she looks like an African goddess — “versus
her second” — a black Olivia Newton-John — “and you’ll see what she did. Michael Jackson, same thing. He put Jheri curls in his hair. Those were the things they had to do to be loved by the masses.” But Jay-Z didn’t do anything but keep being himself, he say
s. “The masses came to him.” Full Story: “Why Jay-Z Is Everything We’re Not,” @ Esquire
“Rap for me is like making movies, telling stories, and getting the emotions of the songs through in just as deep a way. And I grew up in rap and movies the same way. I recently watched Once Upon a Time in America (1984) on a plane. Back in the day, Noodles”—played by Robert De Niro— “was my man. But when he rapes that girl, I couldn’t sit through it anymore. You come to realize that actions have consequences.” -Jay- Z
full interview
pics and articlesvia vibe, realtalkny, hot97 , interview magazine& esquire
Tuesday, 13 October 2009
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