I couldn't even think about wanting to be something else; I wouldn't let myself visualize another life. But I wrote beca — Jay-Z, Decoded
I couldn't even think about wanting to be something else; I wouldn't let myself visualize another life. But I wrote beca — Jay-Z, Decoded
I couldn't even think about wanting to be something else; I wouldn't let myself visualize another life. But I wrote beca — Jay-Z, Decoded
I couldn't even think about wanting to be something else; I wouldn't let myself visualize another life. But I wrote beca — Jay-Z, Decoded
I couldn't even think about wanting to be something else; I wouldn't let myself visualize another life. But I wrote beca — Jay-Z, Decoded
I couldn't even think about wanting to be something else; I wouldn't let myself visualize another life. But I wrote beca — Jay-Z, Decoded
I couldn't even think about wanting to be something else; I wouldn't let myself visualize another life. But I wrote beca — Jay-Z, Decoded
I couldn't even think about wanting to be something else; I wouldn't let myself visualize another life. But I wrote beca — Jay-Z, Decoded
I couldn't even think about wanting to be something else; I wouldn't let myself visualize another life. But I wrote beca — Jay-Z, Decoded
I couldn't even think about wanting to be something else; I wouldn't let myself visualize another life. But I wrote beca — Jay-Z, Decoded
I couldn't even think about wanting to be something else; I wouldn't let myself visualize another life. But I wrote beca — Jay-Z, Decoded
I couldn't even think about wanting to be something else; I wouldn't let myself visualize another life. But I wrote beca — Jay-Z, Decoded
I couldn't even think about wanting to be something else; I wouldn't let myself visualize another life. But I wrote beca — Jay-Z, Decoded
I couldn't even think about wanting to be something else; I wouldn't let myself visualize another life. But I wrote beca — Jay-Z, Decoded
I couldn't even think about wanting to be something else; I wouldn't let myself visualize another life. But I wrote beca — Jay-Z, Decoded
I couldn't even think about wanting to be something else; I wouldn't let myself visualize another life. But I wrote beca — Jay-Z, Decoded
I couldn't even think about wanting to be something else; I wouldn't let myself visualize another life. But I wrote beca — Jay-Z, Decoded
I couldn't even think about wanting to be something else; I wouldn't let myself visualize another life. But I wrote beca — Jay-Z, Decoded
I couldn't even think about wanting to be something else; I wouldn't let myself visualize another life. But I wrote beca — Jay-Z, Decoded
I couldn't even think about wanting to be something else; I wouldn't let myself visualize another life. But I wrote beca — Jay-Z, Decoded
I couldn't even think about wanting to be something else; I wouldn't let myself visualize another life. But I wrote beca — Jay-Z, Decoded
I couldn't even think about wanting to be something else; I wouldn't let myself visualize another life. But I wrote beca — Jay-Z, Decoded
I couldn't even think about wanting to be something else; I wouldn't let myself visualize another life. But I wrote beca — Jay-Z, Decoded
I couldn't even think about wanting to be something else; I wouldn't let myself visualize another life. But I wrote beca — Jay-Z, Decoded
I couldn't even think about wanting to be something else; I wouldn't let myself visualize another life. But I wrote beca — Jay-Z, Decoded
I couldn't even think about wanting to be something else; I wouldn't let myself visualize another life. But I wrote beca — Jay-Z, Decoded
I couldn't even think about wanting to be something else; I wouldn't let myself visualize another life. But I wrote beca — Jay-Z, Decoded
I couldn't even think about wanting to be something else; I wouldn't let myself visualize another life. But I wrote beca — Jay-Z, Decoded
I couldn't even think about wanting to be something else; I wouldn't let myself visualize another life. But I wrote beca — Jay-Z, Decoded
I couldn't even think about wanting to be something else; I wouldn't let myself visualize another life. But I wrote beca — Jay-Z, Decoded
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I couldn't even think about wanting to be something else; I wouldn't let myself visualize another life. But I wrote because I couldn't stop. It was a release, a mental exercise, a way of keeping sane.

— Jay-Z, Decoded
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