Nah. On I Love The Dough, which Jay killed for sure, he talking about $1,500 seats at the Tyson fight while BIG talking about buying homes in unfamiliar places and seeing $5 mil off the single.
Jay's mogul swag was lifted directly from 1997 Bad Boy, there a reason he tried to make a Bad Boy album with Vol. 1
His whole 1997-2003 persona came after LAD and No Way Out
I mean using basic financial terms don't make wealth seem unattainableJay was talking about the fiscal year and tax write offs on his debut
i didn’t know what that shyt meant until I was like 25
I think you're conflating Jay-Z talking like a mogul in 97 into 98 with him literally leveling up financially and business wise. That era jay-z was showing his actual wealth and what he owned...he really owned them SLs and Lexus and 7 series if anything anyone around them says is accurate, and he put the bentley on Hard Knock Life because he probably just bought it legit. I think he was just showing where he was at that time rather than trying to shark bad boy.I mean using basic financial terms don't make wealth seem unattainable
Jay was making videos driving $40,000 Lexus through the hood during the era when Bad Boy was making multimillion dollar videos with mansions, yachts, and private jets to the middle east. Ain't no way Jay was the first rapper to portray next level wealth
Wtf do video prices have to do with anything lolI mean using basic financial terms don't make wealth seem unattainable
Jay was making videos driving $40,000 Lexus through the hood during the era when Bad Boy was making multimillion dollar videos with mansions, yachts, and private jets to the middle east. Ain't no way Jay was the first rapper to portray next level wealth
he told Nas he nutted on his baby seat
debut single, timestapped, these bars alone
Cristal
GS 500
Breitling
He goes on to mention SL500s, Rolex Presidentials, and 7 series
don't act like jay-z was rapping like Mobb Deep and suddenly started flossing like Diddy
you can say that about some rappers but not Jay-z
Even puff out his own mouth said jay did that shyt first LolA 500 Benz is next level wealth? shyt don't even got a V12
BIG was talking about his Range Rover, Lexus and Moet in 1994 so how you gonna claim Jay was on that shyt first? Raekwon was talking Ranges and Cristal on Cuban Linx in 95. AZ was talking Cristal, Versace, Armani, and 850 BMWs on Doe or Die in 95. You really gonna make believe Jay was the first rapper on this shyt?
Wtf do video prices have to do with anything lol
I gross the most at the end of the fiscal year than these nikkas can wish to
when puff was spilling moe in the tub I was at my video cris on the speedboat
in my lifetime my niqqqa do your research
“back then every body had gold chains til Jay came wit plat and changed the game”
Please bust down these albums prior to 96 where u felt that rapper was super paidLMAO. You said Jay was the first rapper to represent a level of wealth that seemed unattainable because he used a term from Business 101
Jay was still on some hood rich hustler shyt both lyrically and image wise when Bad Boy was reflecting some mega rich mogul shyt both in rhymes and presentation, that's just a fact
Please bust down these albums prior to 96 where u felt that rapper was super paid
give me some lines or something
he let it be known the city was his. I don’t think he saw them as in his way
Rappers going broke trying to keep up with meShow me the Jay lines from Reasonable Doubt where you felt he was talking money shyt that was above and beyond. And I ain't talking about terms every 18 year old who took a introductory college business course in the past 40 years learned
Because that's what we talking about. By Vol. 1 he was riding the Bad Boy wave where they already portrayed that