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This guy has been hailed the newest, greatest rap star in America. It's Jay-Z, and he stopped by the Q100 studios to hang out with the Bert Show for a little while. Jay-Z, good to have you in studio, man. Thank you, thank you. Well, welcome to Atlanta. This is obviously not your first time here. No, I love Atlanta. Yeah? I've been coming in for years. What is it about Atlanta specifically that you dig so much?

Women, women, women, and more women. Now, you can't be talking about women, women, women if you got Beyonce on one arm now. I'm grown, man. Yeah, last time, was it the last time you were here? You were doing the big old roller skating thing for the birthday party or something? Oh, yeah, yeah. I did a couple of things that night. And Waffle House? Who come from? See, Waffle House. This Waffle House thing is in People magazine. Yeah, no. It was a big deal with Jay Z and Beyonce went to Waffle House. You got allowed to be normal. You're a celebrity.

You can't go to Waffle House like every other drunk person in Atlanta.

Do you find like if you weren't the rap star, you know, the way that you have to live your

life right now and the way that, I mean, your success has brought you so many new and different

and great things that money brings.

Do you ever look at it and just go, I just can't believe this is my life, this isn't me. It's amazing. Like from where I come from, you know what I'm saying? I'm from Marcy Projects. Brooklyn, New York is like a hood. The hood of the hood? The hood of the hood. Yeah, exactly. The hood of the hood. What is the one thing I guess I should ask you where you said I have got to get away from this?

I have got to build a life so I never have. hood. Exactly. The hood of the hoods. What is the one thing I guess I should ask you where you said,

I have got to get away from this. I have got to build a life so I never have to come back here again. So many things. Like, and that when you're in that situation, every day is a test. You know what I'm saying? It's almost like you're walking on eggshells. Like you know anything can happen at any giving time every day.

That's too much tension as to a person to live with their whole life.

I mean, it's great. Like you know anything can happen at any given time every day. That's too much tension as to for a person to live with their whole life.

I mean, it's great days and it's, you know, it's fun out there and it's, you know,

the Johnny Pump Open.

We call it Johnny Pump Dehydrant when you wet people.

Yeah, yeah.

And jump rope and bass.

It's fun days, but overall, overall it's just tough situation because everybody you

you got to figure this is how you live you have a person next to you on top of you on a side it's like

a box like it's so many different personalities that you got to attend with every day and everyone's so

close that they're on top of each other all the time it's's so many, it's six floors and four families on each floor.

And it's three buildings that's connected.

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