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“My first album was mainly dealing with street issues, and…” quote by Jay-Z — Download Open image

“My first album was mainly dealing with street issues, and it was 'coded': it was called 'Reasonable Doubt.' So the things I was talking about... I was talking about in slang, and it was something that people in the music business was not really privy to. They didn't understand totally what I was saying or what I was talking about.”

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