Jay Z is a new kind of 21st-century artist

Jay Z on Raising Blue Ivy, His Drug-Dealing Past, and Ex-Good-Girl Beyoncé: “She’s Gangsta Now” | Vanity Fair: "In music, we love the idea of the screwed-up, shooting-up, f*cked-up artist. The one bleeding in the garret having cut his own ear off. Jay Z is a new kind of 21st-century artist where the canvas is not just the 12 notes, the wicked beats, and a rhyming dictionary in his head. It’s commerce, it’s politics, the fabric of the real as well as the imagined life. —U2 lead singer Bono"

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