Jay-Z doesn’t write down his lyrics. Yeah. So what? We’ve heard him say that shit a thousand million times. I didn’t believe it at first simply because he has so much material spread throughout the course of his career that he would have to be the idiot savant of rap music to commit all of it to memory. Of course he can’t be in charge of the daily operations of a nightclub business or a clothing line when he is committing all of brainpower to remembering raps and their associated cadences and shit. But ...
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