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November 28th, 2012

why do you record for rapgenius with 30 people over? do they know you’re doing this before they arrive? or are you like “k guys hold up gotta hold this watch and make a tape for this website lol stop partying for a sec”

February 13th, 2013

tell the girl in the orange I said hi.

April 2nd, 2013

This is an episode of “Drunk History” right?

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January 3rd, 2013

^guess you’re too blind to see the RG poster…

Guy
February 18th, 2013

one: your drunk
Two: what did you drink to relax
and: you really got drunk ?
first: what the fuck, how is this a real thing. why the hell are you making videos about this little bit of the song. like how did you write an entire book about why i should know about some great scandalous watch affair. nobody cares nobody cares nobody cares nobody cares nobody cares nobody. i feel like your giving me a history lesson and Jay-Z might have a part in it. dude get over it. you writing and caring about this frivolous event is why your dumb. i thing your mentally ill.

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A mid 1980s film based on the early days of Def Jam Recordings.

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Jay-Z and partners sold Rocawear for $204 million in 2007; rather than taking payment in stock of acquiring company Iconix, he took most of it in cash.

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B-High is Jay-Z’s cousin, and used to work for Chemical Bank. Presumably, he doesn’t work at Chemical Bank anymore. He also produced the song “Holla” on Jay’s Dynasty album

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Jay-Z is claiming that he, like Michael Corleone or Jabba the Hutt, can send a hitman or bounty hunter to dispose of anybody who’s bothering him

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A possible reference to Halle Berry’s 1997 automobile accident. She was charged with leaving the scene and sentenced to 250 hours of community service

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Diddy was acquitted in 2001 of charges stemming from a shootout inside a Manhattan nightclub that left three people wounded. Shyne, on the other hand…

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While negotiating to become Def Jam’s CEO in 2005 (and, therefore, his own boss), Jay-Z also negotiated the return of his master recordings — which, along with his publishing rights, are worth upwards of $50 million according to Forbes

He exhorts other artists to follow his example

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