“Racism is taught in the home. We agree on that? Well, it's very hard t...” — Jay-Z Quote

“Racism 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, 'That guy is less than you.' The kid is like, 'I like that guy, he's cool. How is he less than me?”

“I don't think any rapper can go back. You can be a car salesman, a bank teller - I mean, really good jobs, and people are still gonna look at you and be like, 'You used to rap; what happened?'”

“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.”

“All of us show bias when it comes to what information we take in. We typically focus on anything that agrees with the outcome we want.”

“Everything's pretty consistent in the industry, you know. There's a couple of naysayers, whatever, people who don't agree. But for the most part a lot of people believe in the new class of MC's that coming to the game.”

“When people agree with you, they'll just like it and keep it moving, but when people don't agree with you, that's when they come for your whole neck.”