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“Jay-Z talks about it. He says, listen, man, I studied. The reason I came in the game independent, I own my own record label, which is extremely rare when Jay-Z did that in 96, because he studied the founding of Def Jam and he learned from it. He read that book.”
“All three of us had read Hitman, which is this book, which is the industry bible, and we knew what kind of gangsters had established record companies.”
“Jay-Z's in his early 20s when he reads this book called The Hitman. And The Hitman is essentially a history of the music industry about how artists get taken advantage of by executives.”
“Jay-Z learned from the founding of Def Jam and read a book called Hitman, which discusses the people making music and not getting paid.”