Because Jay is CB4 like all these other rappers.
Why does everyone say "But Jay was really selling bricks, b. Son funded Roc-A-Fella with drug money, word is bond shun, blah, blah, blah..." when there's zero evidence that Jay ever sold a nickel bag in his life?
If Jay really did all the dirt he talks about, he woulda been locked up. Look how they did C-Bo.
They used his fukking lyrics against him in court. Look how they did Mac Dre. All that shouting out the Romper room on every record in the early 90's caught up with his ass. If you from Northern Cali, you can smell a studio gangsta. X-Raided was about that life and you can hear it in the music. I can't hear pain in any of Jay's music that comes from real life experience when it comes to his subject matter about street life. jay is a great rapper, but not a street legend.
I think it's sad that black America tries to deify Jay as some rags to riches role model when he's CB4 just like Rick Ross and all of them. If Jay ever hustled, it was nickel and diming in Bumblefukk, Eastern Shore, Maryland in the cornfields
. It's more depressing how Jay stans will come out of the work and defend his fake status as an imaginary Frank Lucas when Jay, himself, doesn't know or care about your dumb ass
. If Jay was so gangster why did he come out as Hawaiian Sophie? If Raekwon never dropped Cuban Linx, there would be no Reasonable Doubt. It was the trend in East Coast rap to be a mafiaso don on wax. When will folks realize Rap is just entertainment.