A collection of thoughts and quotes by Jay-Z on jealousy, censorship, rapper, hip-hop, music, business, motivation, hope, faith, life, poetry, rap, artists, decoded.
35 Inspiring Quotes By Jay-Z That Will Rock Your World
Jay-Z is a big name in the Rap world and he is also a very successful American entrepreneur. Music fascinated him since an early age and he learned the basics of rapping from the ace rapper Jaz-O. After struggling early he got his first bite at fame when he formed his music label in collaboration with Kareem Burke and Damon Dash. Their first album ‘Reasonable Doubt’ is believed to one of the greatest albums of all time. He further contributed to a couple of more albums before singing the most commercially successful single of his career ‘Hard Knock Life’ which made him famous globally. His next notable work was his album ‘The Blueprint’ and its sequel which sold millions of copies. With his enormous skill as a rapper backed by the global popularity he further made many commercially successful albums. He even runs a successful sports bar chain and founded the music publishing company ‘Roc Nation’. His significant contributions to the music world were honored by various awards including 17 of the most reputed Grammy Awards. A lot of what he has said in his interviews and otherwise has become quite famous as his quotes. His thoughts, views, knowledge, music, work and life has made him an icon and he is loved by people of all ages. Go through the most famous quotations and sayings by Jay-Z which narrates his tale from rags to riches.
A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
Jay Z
Identity 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.
Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so Obama could run. Obama's running so we all can fly.
Jay Z
I'm not a businessman, I'm a business, man!
Jay Z
Artists can have greater access to reality; they can see patterns and details and connections that other people, distracted by the blur of life, might miss. Just sharing that truth can be a very powerful thing.
[T]he truth is you don't need some external demon to take control of you to turn you into a raging, money-obsessed sociopath, you only need to let loose the demons you already have inside of you.
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. It was a release, a mental exercise, a way of keeping sane.
We were kids without fathers . . . so we found our fathers on wax and on the streets and in history. We got to pick and choose the ancestors who would inspire the world we were going to make for ourselves.
Jay Z
This communist talk is so confusing
Jay Z
Allow me to re-introduce myself .. I am the jabroni-beating,pie-eating,trail-blazing,eyebrow-raising.
