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Back then there was a guy by the name of Jazz who I started out with. He had a deal with EMI. He had the opportunity to go to London to record his album. I went along with him for two months. In those two months there was a sting operation and they took my friend I’m talking about, for 13 years [to prison].

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Amid all the hoopla that accompanies holding the record for most number-one albums by a solo artist in history, to say nothing of being married to Beyoncé, Jay-Z nevertheless made a concerted effort to routinely stop by “to chat with the only person in the room likely to have more money than him: business magnate Warren Buffet.”

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The only reason I wasn’t there was because I was away doing this music stuff. Had it not been for music, and music taking me out at the right time, my life could very easily have been his, very easily.

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Amid all the hoopla that accompanies holding the record for most number-one albums by a solo artist in history, to say nothing of being married to Beyoncé, Jay-Z nevertheless made a concerted effort to routinely stop by “to chat with the only person in the room likely to have more money than him: business magnate Warren Buffet.”

“I’ve had all kinds of luck. I had the luck of getting turned down by Harvard, which meant I got to study under Ben Graham at Columbia, which changed my life.” — Warren Buffett

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“Jay said it perfectly when he talked about how he’s in there recording for himself, and the money comes afterwards,” Buffett added. “I get to do what I love, and it doesn’t get any luckier than that.”

As far as “luck” playing a role in Jay-Z’s success goes, the very man whom childhood friends and family affectionately refer to as “Lucky Lefty,” he never forgets to thank his lucky stars.

Buffett went on to say he seems all but “wired for capital allocation, and being wired for capital allocation two hundred years ago in Nebraska wouldn’t have meant a thing.”

Jay-Z’s mentor Jazz-O, from whom he derived his stage name, took him under his wing. He then gave Jay-Z his first big break in the music business. As for Buffett, as he noted: