We were kids without fathers, so we found our fathers on wax and on the streets and in history, and in a… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
Wherever I go, I bring the culture with me, so that they can understand that it's attainable. I didn't do it any… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
I've never looked at myself and said that I need to be a certain way to be around a certain sort of… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
No one came to our neighborhoods with stand-up jobs and showed us there's a different way. Maybe, had I seen different role… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
Rap for me is like making movies, telling stories, and getting the emotions of the songs through in just as deep a… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
Music is the soundtrack to your life. It's not going to go anywhere. But the way people are purchasing music has changed.… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
Rap for me is like making movies, telling stories, and getting the emotions of the songs through in just as deep a… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
Everyone who makes music is a good collaborator at their foundation because in order to make music, you have to connect to… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
I got love for Damon Dash as I did before. I don't know if we can be around each other in that… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
Well I'm not just gon' go and do rap songs. I wanna touch, and maybe help, and see what I can do… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
New York has a thousand universes in it that don't always connect but we do all walk the same streets, hear the… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
This is why we shouldn't be afraid. There are two possibilities: One is that there's more to life than the physical life,… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
Boxing is a glorious sport to watch and boxers are incredible, heroic athletes, but it's also, to be honest, a stupid game… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
Identity is a prison you can never escape, but the way to redeem your past is not to run from it, but… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
I listen to everything - from Sarah McLachlan and Alanis Morissette all the way down to rap like Scarface, UGK and Lauryn… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
I couldn't even think about wanting to be something else; I wouldn't let myself visualize another life. But I wrote because I… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
All these ways we classify things as R&B and hip-hop and rock... It's bullshit. It's all music. If you put yourself in… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
I'm trying to tell the story in the most clear, concise, and truthful way, taking those everyday words and phrases and capturing… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
Biggie was the King Of New York as a rapper. There's a lot more dangerous guys than Biggie Smalls out there, you… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
If I was to stop making music tomorrow doesn't mean suddenly there is this gap. You don't get elected. The people decide… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
I think the consumption of music is at an all-time high. But I think the ways that record companies are trying to… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
We create music to express ourselves and when the world relates, that’s a beautiful thing. We’re all trading off each other’s culture,… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
I've said the election of Obama has made the hustler less relevant. People took it in a way that I was almost… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
I don't profess to be a political rapper, like groups such as 'Dead Prez' or 'Public Enemy', but I think social commentary… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
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… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
Everyone who makes music is a good collaborator at their foundation because in order to make music, you have to connect to it in… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
New York - I'm connected. This is my core. I feel like if I'm not connected to New York, then I don't even know… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
It was a very intense and stressful situation. There was playing in the Johnny-pump (an opened fire hydrant) and the ice-cream man coming around… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
“THEY NEVER TAUGHT MARCUS GARVEY IN OUR SCHOOL CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS IS THEIR GOLDEN RULE” — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
I'm a person that works off of music. I let the music dictate the direction. — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
Tears on the mauseoleum floor. Blood stains the coliseum doors. Lies on the lips of a priest. Thanksgiving disguised as a feast. — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
Around 20. I'd been trying to transition from the streets to the music business, but I would make demos and then quit for six… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
There's the gift, there's the spirit, and there's the work-all three have to come together. If one of those things is off, it can… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
All black everything, Ni**a you know my fresh code. Im out here fightin for you, dont increase my stress load. — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
I couldn't even think about wanting to be something else; I wouldn't let myself visualize another life. But I wrote because I couldn't stop.… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
