Whoever said that artists shouldn't pay attention to their business was probably someone w/their hand in some artist's pocket.
Jay-ZHip-hop is more about attaining wealth. People respect success. They respect big. They don't even have to like your music. If you're big enough, people are drawn to you.
Jay-ZNo 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-ZNew York has a thousand universes in it that don't always connect but we do all walk the same streets, hear the same sirens, ride the same subways, see the same headlines in the Post, read the same writings on the walls. That shared landscape gets inside of all of us and, in some small way, unites us, makes us think we know each other even when we don't.
Jay-Z