#Samsungfail.”
“Magna Carta Holy Fail?”: Henry T. Casey, “Magna Carta Holy Fail? A
Samsung/Jay-Z Release Postmortem,” Contently, July 8, 2013,
https://contently.com/2013/07/08/magna-carta-holy-fail-a-samsungjay-z-
release-postmortem/.
Finally, around 2:00 A.M.: Donkin, “Jay-Z’s Magna Carta Holy Grail Release a
#Samsungfail.”
Pendleton, as usual, managed: Former Galaxy marketer, interview by the author,
October 23, 2017.
“There’s a reason why Twitter”: Casey, “Magna Carta Holy Fail?”
“disheartening” and “not cool”: Breakfast Club Power 105.1 FM, “The Breakfast
Club Classic—Jay Z Interview 2013,” posted by YouTube user Breakfast
Club Power 105.1 FM on July 11, 2013, https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=Y2TbLohPKI0.
the Recording Industry Association of America: David Greenwald, “RIAA Updates
Rules Before Jay-Z’s ‘Magna Carta,’ ” Billboard, July 1, 2013,
https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/1568753/riaa-updates-rules-before-
jay-zs-magna-carta.
Billboard number one spot: Keith Caulfield, “Jay Z’s ‘Magna Carta’ Debuts at No. 1
on Billboard 200 Chart,” Billboard, July 16, 2013, https://www.billboard.com/
articles/news/1924866/jay-zs-magna-carta-debuts-at-no-1-on-billboard-200-
chart.
25: MILK
“I told you that wasn’t going”: T.J. Kang, interview by the author, March 27, 2016.
Samsung had established a task force: Ho Soo Lee, T.J. Kang, Daren Tsui, and Ed
Ho, interview by the author, January 2016–August 2017.
“If you continue to crank out”: T.J. Kang, interview by the author, March 27, 2016.
T.J., Daren, and Ed were determined: T.J. Kang, Daren Tsui, and Ed Ho, interviews
by the author, March 2016–August 2017.
T.J. traveled back to San Jose: T.J. Kang, interview by the author, March 27, 2016.
“We had a terrible reputation”: Han Kuk-hyun (director of Samsung UXCA), email
message to the author’s researcher Junyoub Lee, January 15, 2015.
The lab poached Bay Area talent: T.J. Kang, interview by the author, March 27,
2016.
“there was no mass production”: Han Kuk-hyun, email to the author’s researcher,
January 15, 2015.
“We created this prototype”: Neil Everette, email to the author, April 29, 2019.
