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

[Lucky_Lefty]

Rick Ross’n it before it was cool

 

[Bed$tuy]

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.

First of all those aint jay z jewels. it belongs to dehaven. The guy in that pic is Top Gunna aka Big Love of marcy projects and he says it himself that he got it from dehaven and gave it to jigga.

 

[dennis roadman]

He drives around Manhattan by himself, blasting Aerosmith. And if for some reason you missed your daily fix of The Simpsons or Seinfeld, you can call Jay and he will act out the episode for you.

Haven’t finished reading it yet but fukk the way he’s candid about the dope game, this is the most revealing part

Jay isn’t letting ANYONE outside of family see this side of him today

 

[re'up]

I can 100% see Jay doing Seinfeld clips, his humor and personality is entirely in line with the kind of low key delivery and neurotic observational humor Seinfeld and Larry David excelled in.

 

[BlackDiBiase]

I wonder how much of what Jay says is true
And how much is

in 1987/88 his was living with jaz-o in london doing the music shyt, so what 1988 kingpin was he ?

dehaven said he was uber driver he has no convictions until the un case, what a hell of a drug lord he is.

 

[GunRanger]

Aint no way a guy from NY moving heavy weight without ANY story of them with the big dogs of that era

 

[up in here]

Believe half of what you see, and none of what you hear even if its spat by me - jay z

 

[Trajan]

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

Nas at the height of his beef with Jay said he came in the game with much Versace swagger

Jigga started to flow like us, but hit with "Ain't No nikkas"
Had much Versace swagger
Big admired the Brooklynite and took him in as Iceberg the rapper


Lex with TV sets the minimum

“I saw Jay-Z driving a Lexus with the TVs in them. I got rid of my Lexus at that point and I was looking for the next best thing. It wasn’t a shot at Jay but it was just saying that’s the minimum you gotta have. It’s not a shot at him but he inspired that line. It wasn’t necessarily a shot at him but because the song was a shot at everybody, he fell into that. But he definitely inspired that line"



Breh came in the game with money

 

[grazazaza]

Didn't dream hampton's groupie ass write this shyt?

This article reeks of dream

 

[channelblond]

You got to respect Jay-z. No lies told, probably some exaggeration, but what man hasn't stretched the truth.

Where he came from, high school drop out, not many options.

Just to many confirmations about his beginnings from enemies and friends confirming that Jay was doing his thing before the rap deal.

 

[delta]

When we attend a Norfolk State football game Labor Day weekend, Jay-Z is literally mobbed and has to be rushed out on some real star shyt. And while I'm pissed about losing a shoe in the commotion, he admits to enjoying it. "That's love. Who doesn't want to be loved? I understand women," he muses. " I know they're smarter than men, that's why I can write for them... plus, I think it's my lips or something... maybe they think I'm gonna eat their coochie. In '99 that'll be my thing, I'll just hit broads off." A plan. "But mostly, I think they're attracted to The Life. If they don't want to be a part of it, they're at least curious

."

 

[UWasntThere]

"I think it's my lips or something... maybe they think I'm gonna eat their coochie"



Edit: damit I didn't read that last post

 

[Kyle Barker]

Fa shizzle my nizzle used to dribble out in VA

Was servin em in the home of the Terrapins

"A lot of little fires. But in small towns you ain't wildin' out. You go to jail. This is like a Commonwealth; they'll lock you up for cursing. It takes a special nikka to do a small town. Anybody can D.C. You strong-arm D.C. Ya'll can shoot at each other every weekend." D.C. Exactly. Locals there got so fed up with New York frontiersman they began firing at almost anything with a N.Y. license plate. "I know. It was sweet for a minute, New York nikkas fukked up. A lot of shyt happened 'cause of bytch." Ho-hum. "You gotta believe that. You go into a nikka's town, you shining, and you messing with all their broads. You go into their town; drive whatever you want. Shine, fine. But don't fukk my baby's mother, man. And my man's baby's mother and his man's baby's mother. 'Cause now we sitting at Sizzler like this nikka fukked all our baby's mothers. Now it's a problem."

Hmm. This whole quote reminded me of this:




Also, corny ass Vibe asking if he ever killed anyone. smh

 

[Houston911]

Nice

 

[R=G]

Everything Jay Z says is true Yet Tupac's word is called in question? I respect Jay Z but I don't buy him being some mini Escobar or whatever image is needed to pump him up. If he was that hard, he wouldn't have got punked out like everyone else out east when reputations actually mattered instead of this sissy Instagram begging era.