Words Spoken by a true OG ::: Jay-Z

My two cents : Jay-Z is the epitome and prototype of what all rappers rap about. However I would like to add that, most rappers are afraid to speak their minds and say it out loud, that they want to get as far away from the hood as possible. However because they fear the beat down or worse, their mouths are shut or saying the opposite. Also I think it is a mental prison that they can not see. It is good that the hood has someone such as Jay-Z to look up to. To aspire beyond their limits and break down barriers.

I hope that by saying this. The few that heard it will begin to spark the brain of those who will carry on the mission of revamping the mind set of the African American youth and African American Adult.

Here is what he has to say:

"I think it’s more important for me to be in touch with
who I am than in touch with the streets, per se,’ he says. ‘Being in
touch with the streets, keeping it real, that’s become a lie and a
cliche. I’m not hanging on the corner in the Bed-Stuy. I hate it when
rappers say, “I’m keeping it ‘hood.” I’m like, “Why? What do you mean?
No one’s there by choice! You’re in the hood, by choice?”‘

Bling he feels was misinterpreted by the media as tasteless showing
off, when really it was a celebration of success by people who had
enjoyed precious little of that before. ‘These people came from
nothing,’ he says. ‘No-thing. The bottom. And when they got money and
cars and houses it was a party. Like, us being here, at the
Lanesborough, eating caviar? That just didn’t happen before. Why not
celebrate that?"

Thanks to Bossip I was able to bring this to you guys.