Had I walked out of the Porta-Potty ten seconds earlier, I might have inadvertently hit Jay-Z in the face with the door.
MS. PSAKI: Look, I think Jay gave -- has given many readouts over the last couple of days.
Why I Wrote An Unauthorized Jay-Z Biography.
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And that's why I hired this guy, Jay Carney -- (laughter) -- to take those questions.
As Jay-Z and I approached each other our eyes met, and his lingered for a split second before drifting away.
And on the street that I was staying, they were playing mostly Jay-Z and all kinds of hip-hop, the stuff that you would hear on the radio here.
Shrewd recording artists like Jay-Z are hyperaware of this, as I learned while spending an afternoon with him and Warren Buffett in 2010.
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Jay-Z once jokingly told MTV that "I've inspired a generation of bad writers, " but listeners can only speculate as to how it may have affected the good ones.
After a really successful partnership syndicating gdgt's product database to tens of millions of Engadget pages per month, Peter and I were approached by a whip-smart guy by the name of Jay Kirsch, who runs the group Engadget, TechCrunch, Joystiq, and TUAW are a part of.
As I wrote in my book Empire State of Mind: How Jay-Z Went From Street Corner to Corner Office, the rapper negotiated the return of the master recordings to all the music he made while at Def Jam as part of an agreement to become president of the label in 2004.
"I would like to thank the swap meet for his hat, " Jay-Z said in his acceptance.
Mr. JAY PRITZKER (National Co-Chair, Clinton Campaign): Oh, I don't think it's divisiveness, really, I think it's natural.
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