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Small wonder that these two would jump at the opportunity to soundtrack Baz LuhrmannsGatsbyadaptation.

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Both Jays are self-made men whose gift and curse is wanting more than what the world offers.

1 supplier of state-of-the-art party jams and excruciatingly relatable love anthems.

More important, decades of nailing tricky cadences have made her one of our most formidable rappers.

Jay snaps at the SEC over anongoing investigationinto the sale of Rocawear.

(After all these years of drug trafficking, huh?

/ Time to remind me Im black again, huh?)

The Carters are doing and showing the work, though, fundingHBCU scholarshipsand thinking proactively aboutbail reform.

The overarching message of the album is not so much that squirreling away expensive things can save us.

Its more of a promise that love will.

Work, therapy, compromise, and collaboration saved the Carters.

The message isnt Yall could never do this.

Its that against all odds, two of us just did.

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