The soul of a hustler, I really ran the street

from Jay-Z – What More Can I Say Lyrics on Rap Genius

Continuing Jay’s long-standing “I really lived what I talk about in my rhymes” theme. In an outtake from this period that would surface on his post-retirement “American Gangster” album, he complicates this trope — see here and here

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