Long before he sold 50 million records worldwide — and before he appeared alongside Warren Buffett on the cover of Fortune magazine, accumulated 10 Grammy Awards and became the CEO of his own record label — Jay-Z was living with his mom in the Marcy Houses housing project in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, just trying to survive day by day. "It was a very intense and stressful situation," he tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross. "There was playing in the Johnny-pump (an opened fire hydrant) and the ice-cream man coming around and all of these games that we'd play, and suddenly it would turn just violent and there would be shootings at 12 in the afternoon on any given day. It was a weird mix of emotions. One day, your best friend could be killed. The day before, you could be celebrating him getting a brand-new bike."
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The Hits Collection, Vol. 1
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Empire State of Mind: How Jay-Z Went from Street Corner to Corner Office
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Perhaps [[John L. O'Sullivan]] captured the purpose of the Young America Movement in an 1837 editorial for the ''[[The United States Magazine and Democratic Review|Democratic Review]]'':
Perhaps [[John L. O'Sullivan]] captured the purpose of the Young America Movement in an 1837 editorial for the ''[[The United States Magazine and Democratic Review|Democratic Review]]'':
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{{bquote|All history is to be re-written; political science and the whole scope of all moral truth have to be considered and illustrated in the light of the democratic principle. All old subjects of thought and all new questions arising, connected more or less directly with human existence, have to be taken up again and re-examined.[Edward Widmer, ''Young America: The Flowering of Democracy in New York City'' (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), 3.]}}
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{{bquote|All history is to be re-written; political science and the whole scope of all moral truth have to be considered and illustrated in the light of the democratic principle. All old subjects of thought and all new questions arising, connected more or less directly with human [[existence]], have to be taken up again and re-examined.[Edward Widmer, ''Young America: The Flowering of Democracy in New York City'' (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), 3.]}}
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Here's the revision page. See also:
Young America : Culture and Democrary in Antebellum New York
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Young America : Culture and Democrary in Antebellum New York
