This Life Forever

"This Life Forever"

“America don't understand it, the demographics I tapped in/ I'm the truest nigga to do this nigga and anything else is foolish/ Like those who stay high, under God's grey skies/ My lyrics is like Bible, made to save lives/ In the midst of all your misery nigga, stay fly/ Never let em see you frown, even smile when you down/ Shit, I floss on my off-days fuck what they all say/ Niggas cant stop me like rumors, i'm too strong"

Word [on 'Big Brother']

On "Big Brother:

Do you think it's a fair portrayal?
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“I think it's a fair portrayal from a little brother's perspective. You know, you've got your big brother and you want to go out with him, he's like, ''Nah, get back in the house!'' Things like that, until you come of age. At Roc-A-Fella, we've always lived by tough love. Everyone knows that. It's nothing given. Everyone has to work for theirs, and that's how you make strong individuals, by not carrying them. That's how you make a Kanye West. You make him fight for his position.”

~EW, Sept. 2007

Word [...September 16]

“I'm in that space in my life where I want to push the envelope: I'm looking to do big things that are going to open up doors for myself and for the culture of hip-hop. If I carry myself in the right way, then corporate America will be more likely to deal with another African American. I'm thinking on a larger scale now. Next year I want everyone to turn the corner.”
~Insyle Magazine, Dec. 2004

Word [...August 25]

“I knew I was witty around the sixth grade,” he said. “I just had that feeling of being smart. We did some tests in the sixth grade and I was on a twelfth grade level. I was crazy happy about that. When the test scores came back that was the first moment I realized I was smart.”
~Rolling Stone 2005

Word [...August 6]

Jay on Family

"...I'm like my mom's husband," he says. "I'm a very good friend to her." He says he pulls the ends together for his family, like a father would. "I'm really the dude in the family," he says. "And I want to be that. I take care of everybody, and they love me and respect me for that. But they don't kiss my ass or treat me any different because of it. That's the beauty of it."
~Rolling Stone Magazine 2001

Word [...July 6]

"Jay: The only time your relationship means anything to people that don't give a shit about you, is when you get together, have a baby or break-up. All the in-between is bullshit to cause something else to happen. They're trying to fuck your shit up. Why even feed into the gossip?" XXL, 2006

Word [...June 16]

"You've got kids that inherited stuff from their parents...They don't appreciate it because it was no work; there's no A to Z, it's just Z. To me, you need somewhere to start, somewhere to be like, "Man, I ain't never going back to not being able to pay my light bill, my stomach growling, eating cereal at night, peanut butter and jelly off the spoon, mayonnaise sandwiches." This is real. I'm talking from a place where if groceries came and we got to put bananas on the cereal, it was a treat. That was the shit that you can't fathom." May 2003, Entertainment Weekly

Word [May 21-June 2]