Jay-ZLife is for living, not living uptight, see ya somewhere up in the sky. ✨ Song: Young Forever, Album: The Blueprint 3, 2009371Life
Jay-ZEverything evens up, you just wait, Even a garbage can gets a steak, You ain't even a garbage can, you have faith! ✨ Song: Guns and Roses362Hope
Jay-ZNo matter where you go, you are what you are playa. ✨ Jay-Z (2010). Decoded (Enhanced Edition), p.46, Random House Group373Thought
Jay-ZWhen you step outside of school and have to teach yourself about life, you develop a different relationship to information. I've never been a purely linear thinker. You can see it… ▶351LifeThoughtTime
Jay-ZI got 99 Problems but Mitt ain't one. ✨ Obama’s '99 Problems’ Joke At WHCD Jabs Jay-Z by Madeline Boardman, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 28, 2013.373Humor
Jay-ZThey say a midget standing on a giant's shoulders can see much further than the giant. So I got the whole rap world on my shoulders, they trying to see further than I am.351Humanity
Jay-ZIs to have had and lost/Better than not having at all? ✨ Song: Most Kingz352Thought
Jay-ZWe were kids without fathers, so we found our fathers on wax and on the streets and in history, and in a way, that was a gift. We got to pick and choose the ancestors who would in… ▶363Thought
Jay-ZI can think of no one more relevant and credible in the hip-hop community to build upon Def Jam's fantastic legacy and move the company into its next groundbreaking era. ✨ J… ▶342Thought
Jay-ZI spring train in the winter, around early December...375Sadness
Jay-ZRacism is taught in the home. We agree on that? Well, it's very hard to teach racism to a teenager who's listening to rap music and who idolizes, say, Snoop Dogg. It's hard to say… ▶343Truth
Jay-ZWhat people do in their own homes is their business, and you can choose to love whoever you love. That's their business. It's no different than discriminating against blacks. It's… ▶377HumanityLovePolitics
Jay-ZAs sure as this Earth is turnin, souls burnin / In search of higher learnin, turnin in every direction seeking direction / My moms cryin cause her insides are dyin / Her son tryin… ▶322LoveSadness
Jay-ZHip-hop is more about attaining wealth. People respect success. They respect big. They don't even have to like your music. If you're big enough, people are drawn to you.344Humanity
Jay-ZYou can want success all you want, but to get it, you can’t falter. You can’t slip. You can’t sleep. One eye open, for real, and forever.334Politics
Jay-ZElecting a black man named Barack Obama President in the same country that elected George W. Bush - twice! - is as far-fetched as a hustler from Marcy performing at that President… ▶356Humor
Jay-ZI look in the mirror, my only opponent368Humanity
Jay-ZIf I was to stop making music tomorrow doesn't mean suddenly there is this gap. You don't get elected. The people decide where you are. Whether I'm here or not, if they want you t… ▶368Humanity
Jay-ZIt 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 and all of these games that we'd p… ▶324Reflection
Jay-ZI collect art, and I drink wine... things that I like that I had never been exposed to. But I never said, 'I'm going to buy art to impress this crowd.' That's just ridiculous to m… ▶302Life
Jay-ZIt's hilarious a lot of times. You have a conversation with someone, and he's like, 'You speak so well!' I'm like, 'What do you mean? Do you understand that's an insult?335Time
Jay-ZYou could name practically any problem in the hood and there'd be a rap song for you.302Life
Jay-Z[T]he truth is that drug addicts have a disease. It only takes a short time in the streets to realize that out-of-control addiction is a medical problem, not a form of recreationa… ▶379HumanityTimeTruth
Jay-ZRemind yourself. Nobody built like you, you design yourself. ✨ Song: A Dream324Thought
Jay-ZAnd now we're lethal, infected with D'Evils ✨ Jay-Z (2010). Decoded (Enhanced Edition), p.66, Random House Group325Humanity
Jay-ZBe fluid. Treat each project differently. Be water, man. The best style is no style. Because styles can be figured out. And when you have no style they can't figure you out.358Humor
Jay-ZSuccessful 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. 325Humanity
Jay-ZMy tears is tatted, my rag in my pocket / Im just looking for love, I know somebody got it314Love
Jay-Z[Banning marriage equality is] discrimination, plain and simple. It's really not about votes. It's about people. I think it's the right thing to do as a human being.325HumanityThought
Jay-ZIdentity 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. ✨ Jay-Z (2… ▶271Time
