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I think the problem with people, as they start to mature, they say, 'Rap is a young man's game,' and they keep trying to make young songs. But you don't know the slang - it changes every day, and you're just visiting. So you're trying to be something you're not, and the audience doesn't buy into that.
— Jay-Z
Tags: day, people, you, man

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I made the Yankee hat more famous than a Yankee can.
— Jay-Z
Tags: than, famous, more, hat
By the time I got to record my first album, I was 26, I didn't need pen or paper - my memory had been trained just to listen to a song, think of the words, and lay them to tape.
— Jay-Z
Tags: words, song, memory, time
Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who've never done anything because if you haven't been successful, then you don't know how it feels to lose it all.
— Jay-Z
Tags: people, fear, you, failure
Just strengthening that theme that America is a place of opportunity and hoping to inspire people to fulfill those opportunities, and to want more, and to want better, and to see the places we can go. So many people identify with me because of the place that I come from.
— Jay-Z
Tags: better, opportunity, people, me
I've never looked at myself and said that I need to be a certain way to be around a certain sort of people. I've always wanted to stay true to myself, and I've managed to do that. People have to accept that.
— Jay-Z
Tags: way, never, people, myself
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