Trading Places

What if you could trade places with someone for a day? Corny? VERY...but It's still one of those intriguing questions to think about. 


I'd definitely love to walk in the shoes of Jay-Z:

"First I snatched the streets, then I snatched the charts,

First I had they ears, now I have their hearts,
Rappers came and went,

I been here from the start.

Seen them put it together,

Watched them take it apart...

This is not an image

This is God given

This is hard livin'..."

I wanna know what it's like to walk onto a stage, and see thousands upon thousands of people cheering for you...

I wanna know what it's like to be quoted by artists, academics, fans and critics alike...

I wanna know what it's like to push limits in a genre I helped shape, a

nd then I wanna know what it's like to set higher bars and reach those too...limitless.

I wanna know what its like to be credited, scorned, and etched in the pages of history by people who have never even heard a hiphop song.

I wanna know what its like to be recognized as a creator, success story, hard worker, artist, and entrepreneur...

I wanna know what it's like to be looked up to by kids who aint got nothing but a dollar and dream and a standard that I set....WOW.

I wanna know what it's like to grind hard for years, make millions off my grind, and then go in even harder..

Most of all, as someone making something out of nothing, I wanna know what it's like to sit in my Italian leather seat, in my penthouse suite, looking out the window at my city-skyline view, and know that I did this all for me...