“You have to survive. So you go into survival mode, and when you go into survival mode what happen? You shut down all emotions. So even with women, you gonna shut down emotionally, so you can't connect ... And then all the things happen from there: infidelity.”
— Jay Z as transcribed by Dean Baquet, Jay-Z Discusses Rap, Marriage and Being a Black Man in Trump’s America
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