With Jay-Z’s recent appointment as the president of Def Jam records, many have questioned his qualifications. The little I know about his business acumen I learned from the Black Album (and the illegal Grey Album, which I might have heard once, on a friend’s computer.)
For example, consider the second verse of "Public Service Announcement":
“…I get my by-any-means on whenever there’s a drought,
Get your umbrellas out because that’s when I brainstorm…”“…You can blame Shawn but I ain’t invent the game,
I just rolled the dice trying to get some change,
And I’d do it twice, ain’t no sense in me lying as if I am a different man…”
(He also shows a deft understanding of his negotiating leverage in the first verse: “I be the music biz number one supplier…”)
Terrific advice for any entrepreneur.
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