Hip-hop gave a generation a common ground that didn't require either race to lose anything; everyone gained.
Jay-ZIdentity is a prison you can never escape, but the way to redeem your past is not to run from it, but to try to understand it, and use it as a foundation to grow.
Jay-ZA 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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