Nah. I'm from the West, Zone 1 to be exact. I know Ju thru my big homie/Unc who does video production. Unc used to do some of the early Brick Squad videos and him being an older cat he kinda took Ju under his wing back when breh really wasn't even rapping like that. Unc from East NY originally and I think him and breh Mom knew each other back in NY or something like that, so he damn near like family to them. And my Unc condo was like the kick it spot for me, I had my own key and would go over there even when he wasnt there to flex on broads. Used to always be over there and there was always somebody coming thru but Waka and his sister came thru a lot.
Side note- Unc even let Jaz-O crash in his basement for like 3 months at one point. I personally didn't care for breh too much. He always came off like that old dusty uncle at the reunion telling everybody about his glory days. The nikka was like that dude Smiley in Do The Right Thing, he had this raggedy ass pic of him and Jay-Z sitting outside some car wash in Brooklyn way back in the day and he showed it to everybody who came thru that bytch. Some folks more than once
he would be like "yo this me right here next to Jay and that was day he got his first Range Rover, I remember like it was yesterday"