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-ZI have inherited two of the most important brands in hip-hop, Def Jam and Roc-A-Fella. Reid and Universal Music Group have given me the opportunity to manage the companies I have contributed to my whole career. I feel this is a giant step for me and the entire artist community.
Jay-ZYou can want success all you want, but to get it, you canโt falter. You canโt slip. You canโt sleep. One eye open, for real, and forever.
Jay-ZOne of the reasons inequality gets so deep in this country is that everyone wants to be rich. That's the American ideal. Poor people don't like talking about poverty because even though they might live in the projects surrounded by other poor people and have, like, ten dollars in the bank, they don't like to think of themselves as poor.
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