Old Jay-Z Vibe interview from 1998: Talks about taking over the drug game in VA, Danny Diamonds, etc

[No Homo]

Lol @ "Radolfo", Clark Kent was really everywhere even in disguise.


This must've been just before that event

Never seen a worker rock so many jewels

In the 80s/early 90s wasnt just anyone wearing jewelry like that especially heavy jewelry..... like how just anyone wears jewelry today..you actually had to be someone to wear shyt like that.

And im not a jay fan like that but ive heard enough from ppl to know he was doing his thing back then.

 

[I love Latina women]

Imagine Jay acting like Bart. Tho that wouldn't be far fetched. He did throw in the "gnarly dude" phrase in his rhymes

Naw fukk that. Imagine him acting like Constanza

 

[Bugsmoran]

Fa shizzle my nizzle used to dribble out in VA

 

[CashmereThoughts]

JAY WAS NEVER ARRESTED FOR ANYTHING EXCEPT STABBING UN AND SHOOTING HIS BROTHER....
BUT HE WAS HEAVY IN THE LATE 80'S DRUG GAME???
EXAMPLE 1991 NY HAD 2000 MURDERS ON RECORD
HE COULDNT HAVE BEEN IN THE STREETS LIKE THAT
EVERYONE CATCH'S A BID OR CHARGE

you can ask people in trenton, Maryland or VA if Shawn was heavy in the game or not.

 

[Formerly Black Trash]

This Man Says He Kept Jay Z Out Of Jail In The 1980s

Jay Z diehards should recognize the name Calvin "Klein" Bacote. Hov famously rapped about the Brooklyn street legend on "Allure," off his The Black Album LP. The lyric was memorable and mysterious at the same time.

"I never felt more alive/ Than riding shotgun in Klein's green Five/ Until the cops pulled guns," Hov spits, without divulging much more info. Now the man immortalized in the line has come forward to speak on it. And though MTV News cannot confirm the veracity of the former street figure's version of events, Bacote claims to have saved Jay from a prison stint.

"That came from a case that he and I caught in '89," Bacote told VladTVin a video interview that was posted to the Internet over the weekend. "We were at a party; mayhem just broke out crazy."

Bacote, who recently wrote the book "Neighborhoods Under Siege: Neighborhoods Under Siege: Memoirs Of A Brooklyn Don," noted that the party was in Maryland, but didn't detail exactly what happened besides an alleged fight in which he, Jay and their crew of about a dozen were significantly outnumbered. According to Bacote, when all was said and done, he and the then-unknown rapper were in hot water.

"Long story short, Jay and I wound up being the ones who got caught," Klein alleges. "We actually got locked up, charged with [attempted] murder, [attempted] murder to maim, battery assault, possession of a deadly weapon."

Bacote went on to claim that he persuaded the victim to drop the charges on either himself or Jay -- but not both. According to Bacote, who already had prior convictions, Jay offered to stand trial in his place. "Jay was like, 'Yo, Klein, you been through a lot, I don't really have no record, I could take the weight of the case,'" he said.

Despite Hov's offer, Klein opted to take the heat because of Jay's rap potential, he claims: "I kinda thought of the man's career. I didn't want him to miss that opportunity."

But just 5 minutes after searching for dude
https://www.google.com/amp/hiphopdx...ooklyn-o-g-discredits-jay-zs-past/amp-context

 

[DillaTUDE]

The rapper Quan who was formerly signed under Nas did a couple interviews a decade ago validating Jay's existence in Virginia:

http://www.keep-body.com/Fresh-New-Quan-Interview-Talks-about-his-Life_12213677.html

AllHipHop.com: Let's start from the beginning. Before you went to jail, were you heavy into rapping and making music?

Quan: Yeah, I was rhyming before jail, like on the block. I'd write verses, and I was considered as one of the illest n***as in my hood. People talk about Rap music, but the music wasn't putting any money into my pockets like the crack was. I wanted it, but I didn't know how to get it. There wasn't anybody from my hood in the hip-hop industry, at that time at least. Jay-Z used to come around my way in Virginia a lot back then, and he didn't even get his deal until after I got locked up.

AllHipHop.com: Really? So you were cool with Jay-Z back then?

Quan: Let me break it down for you. When I moved to Bad News, Virginia, I met a friend of mine who became my best friend. Jay used to come to Virginia and f**k with him and my n***as, 'cause they were dudes from New York. That's how I met him. His name was ringing bells, but he hadn't popped yet. People were in the hood doing what they were doing, and I end up getting locked up. People were trying to tell me to chill, but I was on that young s**t, not trying to hear anybody. I was trying to get that money. That sent me to prison, and this is right after Jay released "In My Lifetime". I get locked up, and a couple of months later, he and Foxy Brown drop "Ain't No N***a." At that age back then, I knew I could have ran with anybody, including Jay. My n***as in the hood were mad at me for that, for messing up and not taking advantage of my connection to Jay. To see him succeed, it let me know that this Rap thing is for real.

http://frank151.com/quan-reflects-pull-streets-jay-z-star/

You knew Jay-Z back when Jay was selling drugs. How did you meet him?

My friend Rel, we called him Relly, [he was] Panamanian, he was my childhood friend. His older cousin had custody of him. And his older cousin is Tone Capone, and if you’re familiar with Jay Z, then you know about Tone Capone or you’ve heard of him. His real name Enrique [Pascal], he’s like a big brother to me. And I met Jay-Z through them. The song that Jay Z made, “Song Cry,” was about Capone’s sister.



Long story short, I was on my way to prison, Jay’s on his way to the top of the charts and I just knew like, “I’m gonna come home, and I’m gonna get with Jay.” I came home and nothing was the same. He was a superstar, probably doesn’t remember me at all. So when I see him, he don’t remember little things. He probably don’t want those things coming up. Basically I went to prison and by the time I came home he was on top. Jay was on top and him and Tone were cool, but they wasn’t that cool. I saw Jay Z in the 40/40 Club and I told him that Nas was interested in me, and [asked him] what he thought about that. He told me, “Would you buy cars from a car salesman that has no car in the lot?”

 

[FreshAIG]

But just 5 minutes after searching for dude
https://www.google.com/amp/hiphopdx...ooklyn-o-g-discredits-jay-zs-past/amp-context

They had a falling out.

 

[Tony D'Amato]

But just 5 minutes after searching for dude
https://www.google.com/amp/hiphopdx...ooklyn-o-g-discredits-jay-zs-past/amp-context

But what boss is going to eat a charge for a "soldier?"

 

[Big Boss]

 

[AMcV'88]

the thought of Jay acting out Seinfeld episodes got me crying.
Jay walking in the door like Kramer or trying to copy Costanza's voice.

Hell Cam said dude was rich as hell before rap and he has no reason to lie to prop Jay up lol.

just came in to say this.

they can't stand each other...havent like each other since he 90's and still throw little jabs at each other
but Cam made sure to tell the people in the origin story....Jay was getting it.

Hov was dribbling down in VA, Cam was getting it in Ohio....but what they never got (long pause) was each other.

 

[tuckgod]

You have to consider the fact that he was just fresh out of the streets, his people were still out there, could’ve been the same week Emory got jacked for all we know.

There’s pictures of him and Calvin, there’s them getting locked up, and on and on. But of course on the Coli they think that cats never did shyt unless they snitch on themselves or get caught doing it by the police .

It is semi-true though, Jay and them went down to small cities cause they would be workers under some other dudes in Brooklyn.

Just pointing out that everything he said wasn’t facts..

 

[Roxx the King]

Its all true

I saw Jay that weekend (labor Day) in 98. he was at a gas station in the same car as the cover of hard knock life. i never knew if my memory was right but reading the article where he says his dude brought him a fleet of cars from richmond made me know it was fact

 

[Terrance Curtis Beasley]

True story

 

[Harry B]

Just pointing out that everything he said wasn’t facts..

Read between the lines, it’s like saying Big Meech isn’t a major drug dealer cause he says so

 

[VladTheImpaler]