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

[Pop123]

The part about killing someone and the "No, but I wouldn't tell you if i did" turned me off to these souped up stories. Nobody who took life would answer that question like that, they'd say "No" with a straight face and convince you that they're serious. Him insinuating shows that he's on some rapper shyt, he wants you to think he's tuff, which is cornball shyt. Serious capital offenses, like murder, have no SOL, guys with kills they got away with from 35 years ago are still spooked and uneasy when the word "murder" is even brought up around them and immediately change the subject, he's frontin.

I know Jay-z was movin it before rap, but I can tell he puts extra sauce on the stories and the numbers to get the idiotic rap fans' nipples hard. "Took over VA", negro please. Was he writing his rap rhymes while waiting for the liaison to deliver bales of dope? Lol. He was never near a Klein's level in that lifestyle, why would anyone even consider that?

 

[Easy-E]

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

72 straight hours of drug dealing eating only cookies
Classic thread

 

[Bed$tuy]

i agree ig is a great thing

this whole time we were talking about two different chains...... did you realize that? and of course that anchor chain is jay's. Did you not see gunner's post I posted saying that he got that for him? The one i pointed out was the pic that was posted earlier, the Egyptian head piece which isn't his.

 

[ISO]

I'm thinking about Frederick Douglass and all the slaves who worked all those crops. Didn't realize Jay Z was out there servin em over a century later.
:grinoh:

Ironic, the same place I’m making figures at
Is the same land where they used to hang nikkas at
-Malice

 

[Ineedmoney504]

The part about killing someone and the "No, but I wouldn't tell you if i did" turned me off to these souped up stories. Nobody who took life would answer that question like that, they'd say "No" with a straight face and convince you that they're serious. Him insinuating shows that he's on some rapper shyt, he wants you to think he's tuff, which is cornball shyt. Serious capital offenses, like murder, have no SOL, guys with kills they got away with from 35 years ago are still spooked and uneasy when the word "murder" is even brought up around them and immediately change the subject, he's frontin.

I know Jay-z was movin it before rap, but I can tell he puts extra sauce on the stories and the numbers to get the idiotic rap fans' nipples hard. "Took over VA", negro please. Was he writing his rap rhymes while waiting for the liaison to deliver bales of dope? Lol. He was never near a Klein's level in that lifestyle, why would anyone even consider that?

that's partly true. I know killers that rep they bodies like a badge of honor. Everything ain't one way. Could be different up that way tho, I'm in New Orleans where it's literally is "you nobody til u kill somebody"

 

[KravenMorehead™]

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.



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.

I seen this dumb shyt in somebody sig. Repped

 

[laughslikebig]

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

Is that Turf with him?

 

[Tflasha]

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

/END THE MUTHAfukkN THREAD!!!!! THIS INCLUDES EVERY OTHER RAPPIN TRAPPIN CAPPIN MUTHAfukkA AS WELL

 

[Will Ross]

You guys really think jay was a major drug dealer that sold outta state and beat the feds even though dudes he was with got caught up.

 

[Carr]

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.

It was a very different time.

Without the cameras and technology of today, it was damn near open season.

 

[KENNY DA COOKER]

Someone needs to pull up those receipts of Jay Z getting arrested in Jersey

So we can solve this once and for all



Jay resumed his hustle. And that was work. He was shot at three times, once from less that 10 feet away, by a childhood friend. "That's why he got so close," Jay says. "I didn't see it coming. It was over some stupid shyt, one of his houses in Trenton . We saw each other a couple weeks later at the parole office, no guns allowed. We laughed about it."Jay was arrested and detained for about a week in Jersey.

 

[Harry B]

Is that Turf with him?

Top Gunna aka big love, I believe he was Calvin Kleins main dude and if I recall correct I read that they sent this picture to him when something happened. Or something like that.

 

[AMcV'88]

I seen this dumb shyt in somebody sig. Repped

dumb ? sir this was my youth.

i was big fan of Rocafella as a youngin, Jay and Cam were/are two of my favorites
when i found out from my cousin they didn't like each other i was taken aback.

 

[KENNY DA COOKER]

Top Gunna aka big love, I believe he was Calvin Kleins main dude and if I recall correct I read that they sent this picture to him when something happened. Or something like that.

yeah u right...Top Gunna the man who ran with Klein and put out all those dvd biographies of Danny Diamonds and Calvin Klein said JAY WAS JUST A WORKER ..NEVER A BOSS...

 

[Enzo]

Is this the one where he is in the kitchen of a diner or something on the cover?