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An Insider’s View of Jay-Z and Beyoncé’s Dynamic Partnership | 16

Even the Rich

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The Importance of Institutional Racism in the Record Industry

Hip hop is the most consumed genre in the world. Jay Z seized on that immediately and said, I'm not going to be consuming Kristall or rapping about it ... It's a very Jay Z thing, right? "I think certainly the fact that Jay Z didn't get those deals, you know, to begin with in the record industry, there's a degree of institutionalized racism," he says.

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