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Track: So Ambitious
Artist: JAY-Z
Album: The Blueprint 3

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Name: JAY-Z
Spotify Genres: hip hop, east coast hip hop, rap
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Hip-hop entrepreneur, born on December 4, 1969 in New York City. Jay-Z is currently the co-owner and chairman of [l=Roc Nation] Entertainment, co-owner, creative consultant and co-developer of [l=Tidal (3)] and is a certified sports agent through Roc Nation Sports. He previously co-founded [l=Roc-A-Fella Records] and Rocawear (along with [a=Damon Dash] and [a=Kareem Burke]), created the 40/40 Club in 2001 and had prior endorsement deals with Armadale and [l=Reebok] (Jay-Z was the first non-athletic hip-hop artist to endorse Reebok footwear before [a=50 Cent]). From 2004 to 2009, he was president and CEO of [l=Def Jam Recordings]. As an artist, Jay-Z has sold over 59 million records worldwide and invested in over $1.9 billion in cash and assets. He has broke out artists such as [a=Kanye West], [a=Ne-Yo], [a=Rihanna], [a=Jeezy], [a=J. Cole] and many more. Since 2008, he has been married to singer [a=Beyoncé] with whom he has three children (including [a=Blue Ivy Carter]).

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LYRICS

(feat. Pharrell)
[Pharrell:]
Yeah 3 in the morning on the Westside highway, top down baby,
F-ck y'all
The motivation for me was them telling me what I couldn't be,
Oh well,

[Jay-Z:]
This a special dedication,
I wanna thank you for the fuel,
No really thank you,

I felt so inspired by what my teacher said,
Said I'd either be dead or be a reefer head,
Now sure if that's how adults should speak ta kids,
Especially when the only thing I did was speak in class,
I teach his ass,
Even betters what my uncle did,
I pop my demo tape in start to beat my head,
Peaked out my eye, see if he was beating his,
He might as well say beat it kid, he's on the list,
It's like I'm searching for kicks like a sneaker head,
He gon keep pushing me until I reach the ledge,
And when I reach the ledge I'll tell em all to eat a d-ck,
Take a leap of faith and let my eagle wings spread,
Spread spread.

[Chorus: Pharrell]
Motivation for me was them telling me what I could not be,
Oh well,
I'm so ambitious,
I might hit two sisters,
Hey I'm on a mission
No matter what the conditions,
Forget the personal issues
When you been what I been through,
Hey if you believe it,
Then you could conceive it.

[Jay-Z:]
I had to lace up my boots even harder,
Father is too far away to father,
Further-more of the kids either smoke reefer,
Or either move white, there's few writers in my cipher,
So they made lighter, my type a dreams seem dumb
They said wise up, how many guys a you see making it from here,
The world don't like us, is that not clear, alright,
But I'm different, I can't base what I'm gonna be off a what everybody isn't, they don't listen, just whispering behind my back,
No vision, lack of ambition,
So wack!

[Chorus]

[Jay-Z:]
Had a couple of meetings no offers yet,
Maybe I ain't good enough for these offices,
Back to the drawing board ducking officers,
It's all good cause the streets is A&R'ing this,
So with or without any of your involvement,
Coming for all of this, respect my conglomerate,
I went from pauper to the President,
Every deal I ever made set precedent,
N-ggas thought I'd fall without old buddy,
Oh buddy, what I do is make more money,
Dear Teacher, your probably somewhere near a speaker,
I'm balling outta control, can you hear my sneakers,
F-ck y'all,

[Chorus]