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# Jay-Z Takes To Twitter For 5 Hours: The Highlights
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/jay-z-takes-to-twitter-for-5-hours-the-highlights/
- Published: 2013-07-09T14:55:22.000Z
- Updated: 2013-07-09T14:55:22.000Z
- Description: Jay-Z took to Twitter last night for five hours. After a high profile week of album release and Sansung app blowback, he seemed ready to set the record straight. And. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2013/07/jay-z-takes-to-twitter-for-5-hours-the-highlights.html]
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Music Business, Social Media, Carter, Holy Grail, Jay, Jay-Z, Magna Carta, music industry, RT (TV network), Twitter, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 10:43

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Jay-Z took to Twitter last night for five hours. After a high profile week of album release and Sansung app blowback, he seemed ready to set the record straight. And with tweets that ranged from informal press conference answers to even less formal fan interactions, the rapper/entrepreneur let loose. The highlights:

**On the music industry:**  

RT [@**TinaciousAoun**](https://twitter.com/TinaciousAoun?ref=hypebot.com) What is the biggest lesson you've learned from the music industry? [#**MCHG**](https://twitter.com/search?q=%23MCHG&src=hash&ref=hypebot.com) [@**S\_C\_**](https://twitter.com/S%5FC%5F?ref=hypebot.com) **\[run when people say "Worldwide smash"\]**

On the album/app release controversy:

RT [@**DylanByers**](https://twitter.com/DylanByers?ref=hypebot.com) What's your reaction to Times charge that your MCHG rollout was invasive in its surveillance of your fans**\[sux must do better\]**

and

RT [@TylerBritter](https://twitter.com/TylerBritter?ref=hypebot.com) Do you still have 99 problems or have they all been sorted? **\[[#newrules](https://twitter.com/search?q=%23newrules&src=hash&ref=hypebot.com) new problems\]** 

On Twitter:

RT [@\_VintageVisual](https://twitter.com/%5FVintageVisual?ref=hypebot.com) LOOOOOOLLL who is in charge of Jay-Z's tweets????? I am dying right now \*Jay-Z laugh **\[well I am of course..FACTS only..\]**

and

RT [@TCrabtree83](https://twitter.com/TCrabtree83?ref=hypebot.com) . [@S\_C\_](https://twitter.com/S%5FC%5F?ref=hypebot.com) Are you retiring from music to focus on Twitter? [#MCHG](https://twitter.com/search?q=%23MCHG&src=hash&ref=hypebot.com) **\[YES. but you knew that already\]** 

On Beyonce:

RT [@LucaBrasi718](https://twitter.com/LucaBrasi718?ref=hypebot.com) What Beyonce Say To You After This? **\["Doing all sorts of twisted shit with your fingers" [#mylaugh](https://twitter.com/search?q=%23mylaugh&src=hash&ref=hypebot.com)\]**

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