The Top 10 Quotes From Jay-Z’s Interview On Hot 97 - Page 2
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Jay-Z has been full of surprises these past 24 hours or so. After answering fan questions via Twitter much of yesterday, Mr. Carter made one of his customary appearance on Hot 97 earlier this afternoon to commemorate the official release of Magna Carta Holy Grail.
As always, Jay kept his conversation with on-air personality Angie Martinez very candid. A few of the topics discussed included, but were not limited to, the paranoia of fatherhood, RIAA changing their rules for this album, Miley Cyrus, texting Barack Obama, and more.
Check out Hov’s sit down below, as well as the top 10 quotable from the exchange.
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On RIAA Changing It’s Rules
“If you did 500,000 digital, 200 thousand, whatever the metrics is, they should certify what’s digital. It should’ve been happening. I was just the agent of change.”
On whether he’s surprised about moves he pulls off
“It’s a bit of business acumen and it’s a bit of believing I can and not being afraid to fail. That holds a lot of people back, that fear of failure.”
On whether he hates failing
“I’m a person that loves winning. [But] I don’t hate to lose. That’s a different personality trait. Some people hate to lose and that drives them.”
On watching TV
“I’m watching the trial heavy right now. I was just looking at the news and like it’s strange how you can see everyone’s agenda… CNN is almost like TMZ. Certain things it’s like, Aw man this is really just entertainment. It’s really all for ratings. And you squeeze a bit of information in there… [Sports], that’s the only thing that’s real. The outcome of that is real. Although people want to believe that it’s fixed. That’s the real reality show.”
On having Barack Obama “on the text”
“Yeah, I’ve spoken to him on the phone and had texts… Yes, that’s happened and it’s amazing. He’s a regular guy as well. He’s very heavy into sports so a lot of his analogies end in sports… I don’t know if this is reaching National Security, but when he was getting elected the second time, he was like, “Fourth quarter, just gimme the ball.'”
On growing up with both parents
“They were together my early years, till I was 9 or something. That’s what made it worse—’cause I knew. Some people don’t even get to feel that sort of love at all so you can’t miss what you don’t have. It’s still this empty feeling. There’s more of an empty feeling having it then having it taken away from you.”
On living without money
“I don’t need money… I think success is just being able to do what you want to do on your terms.”
On being a father
“[It’s] just more reaffirming the things that’s really important in life and editing your life in such a way that you don’t have anything that’s distracting you. Anything that’s taking away from that time you should be with your child.”
On whether there will be a Watch The Throne 2
“Yeah, hopefully.”
On his relationship with Damon Dash
“The thing we built , you can’t take that away so no matter what, the love is still there. Because what we’ve done will forever be stamped in history… We created something that’s gonna go down forever. So I can only have love for Dame. I just don’t know where we are in our life–We’re not the same two men at that time when we gelled in that way. I haven’t seen him in a while. I have ultimate confidence in him that he’ll find his way ’cause he’s an amazing and smart guy…. He’s a hustler and he’s highly intelligent, so I always root for him and always believe that he’ll find his way out of it. But I can’t control what happens life.”
