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Jay-Z: American Gangster
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Although Jay-Z says he hasn't "spoken to anyone about doing a concert event" to benefit Katrina victims, he says he wants to speak with Sean "Diddy" Combs about starting a fund exclusively to aid African-Americans in times of crisis. "Just in case anything like this happens in the future, we can do what the elder Bush and [former President Bill] Clinton are doing for our people specifically."
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That’s right, Jay-Z is making a movie tie-in CD. He claims that he’s trying to widen his audience. You know what would really widen his audience? If he released a CD single in that “Lid Rock” thing they put on soda lids in theaters. Everyone would respect him more. Jay-Z claims that the amount of inspiration he received from American Gangster surprised even himself. The following are lyrics from one of the tracks:
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"That's my thing," Jay-Z smiled on Wednesday night at Steiner Studios in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Jay was there to tape an episode of VH1 Storytellers, and before showtime, he was scribing some last-minute additions to his November 6 release, including a track called "American Dreaming" that samples Marvin Gaye vocals, and "Hello Brooklyn," which features Lil Wayne.
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