Crushable Quotable: Businessmen Used To Speak Jive With Jay-Z

Jay-Z is one of the most successful businessmen in the world. In addition to having the most number one albums for a solo artist, he has made bank through partnerships with big brands from Coca-Cola to Budweiser, Reebok and Microsoft. But when he started working in business, Hova ran into some hiccups with white-collar entrepreneurs. In a profile of the rapper today, The Wall Street Journal notes that businessmen initially tried to speak to him in Ebonics: "In the beginning it was ' 'Sup, man!...

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