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"By Jay-ZA great song doesn&amp;apos;t attempt to be anything &amp;#x2014; it just is.When you hear a great song, you can think of where you were when you first heard it, the sounds, the smells. It takes the emotions of a moment and holds it for years to come. It transcends time. A great song has all the key elements &amp;#x2014; melody; emotion; a strong statement that becomes part of the lexicon; and great production. Think of &amp;quot;Bohemian Rhapsody,&amp;quot; by Queen. That song had everything &amp;#x2014; different melodies, opera, R&amp;amp;B, rock &amp;#x2014; and it explored all of those different genres in an authentic way, where it felt natural.When I&amp;apos;m writing a song that I know is going to work, it&amp;apos;s a feeling of euphoria. It&amp;apos;s how a basketball player must feel when he starts hitting every shot, when you&amp;apos;re in that zone. As soon as you start, you get that magic feeling, an extra feeling. Songs like that come out in five minutes; if I work on them more than, say, 20 minutes, they&amp;apos;re probably not going to work.Read Jay-Z&amp;apos;s full essay here."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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