Jay-Z, Decoded Quotes

Rap has been a path between cultures in the best tradition of popular music.

You could name practically any problem in the hood and there'd be a rap song for you.

A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.

Housing projects can seem like labyrinths to outsiders, as complicated and intimidating as a Moroccan bazaar. But we knew our way around.