Hip-hop influences everything and everybody. It's not just music. It's...a culture. Guys like the clean look now ever since Jay-Z said, 'and I don't wear jerseys no mo I'm 30 plus, give me a fresh pair of jeans and a button up'. Before that, Jay-Z had everyone wearing jerseys. Jerseys were the thing. But now it's different.
Quotes about jay-z (10 Quotes)
Def Jam chief Jay-Z told us yesterday he 100 supported ... George Bush doesn't care about black people.
The Fort Minor record is all about getting back to basics in Hip-Hop, both sonically and for me personally, ... And working with Jay-Z again has been phenomenal. We can't wait for people to hear the final product.
Beanie Sigel's life has changed dramatically in the last eight years. As a 23-year-old man still named Dwight Grant, he once aspired to be a barber, or perhaps to work as a hospital maintenance man, earning a modest dollar and good benefits. But in 1998 friends landed a chance to rap for the superstar Jay-Z. I went along for the ride, ... I was just thinking I'd get to meet Jay.
We told him to listen to Jay-Z and Mike Jones, ... I mean, he already liked Usher and Alicia Keys.
If you run all of Elton John in London, then you miss Jay-Z and Linkin Park in Philadelphia. We wanted to make sure we gave a full picture of what the event meant, the scope and the scale of the artists involved.
Sometimes, I'll be walking down the street, and people will be like, 'You're the guy from the antlers video' And you can't go certain places. We have two buses now. Jay-Z has called me on the phone. But a lot of things probably will never change - like our friendships and our working relationships. As far as me and Patrick Stump, the singer and all of Fall Out Boy, it's in a vacuum.
Nobody from my label called any of their labels to get this done. Most of it happened very naturally. Mary and I have been friends for a long time. Then Jay-Z offered.
You be in a club with these girls and they're looking at you, giving you play, but you don't want no play, because you realize the next week Jay-Z comes into town and it's the exact same thing. If you value your life, you're not gonna be doing that type of thing.
It's like Jay-Z says. Get it right, did it different, did it better, did it nice. Did the impossible, then did it twice.