You may not know this, but I’m actually a very modest and anxious person, and even writing 'masturbation' in the book was stressful to me.
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Oh my God, everything from the standard flicking of the light switch to the less standard—I remember we had guests at my parents’ house once, and I decided that I had to go into the room and stare at each of their toothbrushes until I remembered exactly what both of them looked like. And then if I d…
I only went up maybe twice after smoking a joint. And I slaughtered. I mean, I slaughtered the house. I annihilated everybody. At one point [Sam] Kinison was at the back of the room, and just for fun he was heckling me. And I was killing him. I was killing everybody. And I walked off stage and they…
Alcohol is still one of the number-one killers in the world. Drunk driving and, 'I killed him ’cause I was drunk. I raped her ’cause I was drunk.' You don’t never hear nobody saying, 'I killed them ’cause I was high on weed.'”
What I don’t do is I don’t drink coffee. ’Cause I think that’s just one of the craziest drugs. I’ve done all the things. Coffee fucks me up more than any of it. I’ve done ayahuasca. Coffee’s worse.
In my twenties, I was a wake-and-baker. And then one day I just couldn’t do it anymore. One day I just sat on the couch and couldn’t move.
I left rehab because I got bored talking about God and listening to people who could not succeed at a successful life of drinking and drugs and alcohol like a normal person does. When you’re happy, drink and do drugs; when you’re unhappy, don’t.
You don’t even get to that point. Because you don’t allow yourself. ’Cause once that’s happened to you..Your father, growing up he’s like Superman to you. He’s everything. So once you feel that sort of hurt, you never allow yourself to get close to that feeling. You don’t even want to feel that good…
— Jay Z, amazon.com
Brad Pitt don’t smoke shit hash. It’s like [the saying], 'Irish don’t drink shit Guinness.' Brad Pitt don’t smoke shit hash.
A hustler is anybody that gets up every single day and figures out a way to make good for themselves in this society.
— Jay Z, amazon.com
Yeah, it’s—you don’t know what’s going on. You don’t feel anything. Kicking it is so hard because all of a sudden your whole body comes to life, and you’ll have had all of these physical problems you didn’t realize you had because you don’t feel a damn thing. And so your knees will hurt. Your joints…
No, I go upstairs in my room. I had a cross in my room. This was my last God moment. I looked at the cross and I begged God, 'Please, make it yesterday. Turn the clock back an hour. Who’s going to notice? An hour, and I won’t get caught. I won’t do it again.' I hear the cops and then I hear the cop…
I feel like marijuana is a universal language for all people.
Yes. The number-one sign that someone’s going through a rough time usually is that they grow a beard.
I don’t let my success separate me from who I am.
— Jay Z, amazon.com
I think at the end of the day we’re all the same. I really believe that. We all have the same anxieties, fears, aspirations.
— Jay Z, amazon.com
Howard: I’ll tell you something. I went to LA, and I smoked weed. And it almost killed me. Why is it so much stronger now? Seriously, don’t you get paranoid at all when you smoke this stuff? Snoop Dogg: I get paranoid that they gonna stop making it.
Howard: Were you a great crack dealer? Jay-Z: Incredible. Howard: You were the best? Jay-Z: Not the best, but I was really good.
— Jay Z, amazon.com
I was around twelve, and my pop left about eleven. Those years are foggy. Anywhere between nine and eleven, my pop had left. I had a bunch of anger.
— Jay Z, amazon.com
Not to sound like the Prince of Doom or anything, but everything in my life that I wanted to happen—good and bad—has sort of happened.