Jay-Z

Once a kid from the ghetto Shawn Carter started out with a life of drug selling on the street just to get attention from people who normally wouldn't even give him a second glance. He didn't do it to be a rebel he just wanted to survive. "Not everybody in the family was eatin' right, so I felt that I had to protect them. I had to weigh my choices...hustle or somethin'. But what? I didn't see another option. Young Black men in the ghetto don't have options, because they're surrounded in despair and depression. I didn't want to be poor."

Making it big didn't give Jay-Z a big head either. This man doesn't want to live a flashy lifestyle all he has is a nice Lexus. Even if it does have 3 TV's and a VCR it's still not as flashy as some of the things other artists are drivin around. His reasoning for this nice car, "So while I'm getting driven to where I need to go, I can watch some TV, pass time. I ain't flashy like some of these other niggas, owning three cars, wearing a whole bunch of gold, and showin' off. I just did my thing quietly. I made trips here and there doin' what I had to do, but I can't tell you too many of my secrets or I'll have the FBI comin' after me, askin' questions. I don't wanna have to deal with them. They come after a nigga when they see there's something to gain personally."

Jay-Z is, like any other human, a person who wants money and to live a happy life in a little luxury and he's tryin his hardest to make it in the rapping business. It looks as if he's made it pretty well considering he's on his second CD.

A quote to haunt other rapper from Jay-Z: "Look out for Rocafella. You can't ignore us, 'cause we're comin.'"

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