This is a question and answer from Jay-Z from a Blender Magazine interview circa 2007-2008. We posted this to keep wealth in perspective. Don’t chase money. Use it as a tool:

On the American Gangster track “Success,” you rap about the disillusionment that can come with achieving your dream: “All I got is this big house, couple cars, I don’t bring half them (expletive) out … How many times can I go to Mr. Chow’s?”

In the context of the album, it was that Scarface moment when Tony Montana sits in the restaurant and looks around and says, “This is all it’s about?” You get to that point where it’s like, “OK, I drove the Rolls Phantom around the corner and … nothing happened.” And you ask yourself, “That’s it? I thought blondes was gonna be jumping on my hood!”