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Flanagan, Andrew; Hampp, Andrew (March 30, 2015)./https://www.billboard.com/pro/jay-z-tidal-launch-artist-stakeholders/Billboard. Archived from the original on April 2, 2019. Retrieved January 13, 2019. Jay-Z's ambitious entrance into the streaming music business, which came as a surprise to industry observers, debuted Monday (March 30) at an event at New York's James A. Farley Post Office in Herald Square.
Finlay, Mitch (August 19, 2019)./https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/224835-jaz-o-is-the-originator-reflections-on-jay-z-big-and-creating-the-triplet-flow-news/www.hotnewhiphop.com. Archived from the original on February 15, 2020. Retrieved February 18, 2020. The reason I did it was because in one-sixteenth cadence and your average four-fourth time signature beat, if you have more than sixteen syllables in a measure, all of the sudden, you're stuck with a dilemma to express yourself in a certain way or to get your point across the way you choose. I had to stuff those words, those extra syllables in the sixteen so it would transform those syllables into twenty-fourths, which became a triplet of an eighth. That's why I called it the triplet style.
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