No Rapper In The World From Jay-z

I Kinda Like The Idea Of Having An Album That's All Me.

When I First Started Rapping, When I Switched My Style To More Like A Punch Line Style - This Is When I'm Like 13 Years Old - And I Switched It To This Real Wordy - I Was Trying To Rap Like Canibus And Like Eminem. It Was Real Lyrical, Real Wordy And Punch Lines And, When I Would Come Up With These Punch Lines And Spit 'em In These Cyphers, The Minute The Cyphers Would Be Like, "ohhh" And Everybody Would Break Away, It Was A New Feeling For Me. It Was Like, "oh, Yo, You See What I Just Did?" I Was Addicted To That Feeling, And I Still Love That Feeling.

I Want To Be Like Bruce Springsteen Or Something, Making Songs That Are Relevant.

I Just Feel Like, With Rappers, There's So Much Complacency. It's Like, 'oh, I'm A Rapper. I'm Successful. I Make Money. That's All That Matters.' But There's A Lot Of Stuff Going On In The World. Whether Or Not You're Aware Of It, It's Happening.

I Worked In Ad Sales. I Would Call Up Local Businesses And Try To Get Them To Buy Ads In The Paper. The Whole Time, I Felt Like I Was Just Scamming People.