Jay Z‘s chickens are coming home to roost. The aging rap mogul allegedly polluted the Marcy projects in Brooklyn with cocaine, according to his own lyrics.
In his feature on Pusha T‘s new track “Drug Dealers Anonymous”, Jay Z raps:
14-year drug dealer and still counting
Who deserves the medal of freedom is my accountant
He been hula hooping through loop holes, working around shit
IRS should’ve had the townhouses surrounded
Many wonder how 47-year-old Jay Z — real name Shawn Carter — got away with drug dealing and polluting the bodies of young people for so long.
It pays to have friends in high places and accountants who know how to cook the books.
But is Jay Z’s luck running out? The mainstream media has begun digging into his past and his humble beginnings as a drug kingpin.
Daily Beast — According to Zack Greenberg’s excellent book Empire State of Mind, Jay began moving serious “weight” along with his childhood pal, DeHaven Irby, and Emory Jones. While Irby has accused Jay of exaggerating his drug-dealing past, claiming that most of the raps more closely resemble himself, no one is disputing that Jay Z was involved in dealing drugs.
“One person who spent time with both Jay Z and DeHaven during the early 1990s estimates that Jay Z was moving a kilogram of cocaine (a $12,000 value before the fourfold street markup) per week,” wrote Greenburg. “‘He was definitely involved in the narcotics game,’ says the source, who asked to remain anonymous. ‘There’s no denying that.’”
In his autobiography Decoded, Jay Z discussed his years working as a street-level crack and cocaine dealer for Jones in Maryland, writing about how it ended with “police investigations, whole crews arrested,” and adding, “I got out of there just in time. Some of my best friends weren’t so lucky. It was tragic.”
WE DON’T BELIEVE YOU YOU NEED MORE PEOPLE
I need just one of those stacks from that pic and I’ll be good.
prolly wasnt even moving an 8ball a week…hov been round rick false too long
From what I’ve heard, if you get one, you’ll want more…
So they’re trying to say Prince died of a opioid overdose GTFOH!!!! Lies!!!!!
Will the real Rick Ross please stand up cus i’m getting nothing from these part time wanna bees
and controversy like Prince said.
I have a lot of respect for Jay… I’m 36 and live in CT. Before Jay popped I heard stories about this dude from *up top* NY that “moved in the street..wink* and was a good rapper.. Jay walked through the dark valley of wolves and sharks and came out without a damn blimpish.. Much respect to this man… Nothing in this article on Emory tho.. Hmmmm… Emory is the reason why Jay is who he is today… But, as I said, “Much respect to this man” takes care of his whole family.
Leave The Stabber alone.
LMAO
If it is true that weak, it would be compared to being a street level MacDonald’s worker. Facts he was like hand to mouth wit that smh crack is wack.
This is something that he has spoke about many times before. But in other news, did you guys see the funeral pic of Hambre circulating online of him in the casket? Lawd people sure know how to run with stuff…lmbo I’ve been seeing all sorts pertaining to the silver back today.
Not in the 80s. but yes in the 2010’s
Man listen.
“Hov did that so hopefully you won’t have to go through that!”
The media and bloggers are late to this party! About 20 years late.
Not only did he rap about it, on one of those Nets docu series, he took the cameras to the damn stash house.
I guess everyone is used to these rappers lying and shit.
I like how when he recounts it, he skips over the actual stabbing. One minute he is angry, he goes over to the man, the next minute he is arrested.
SMH saying okay and who didn’t know he made a living off of selling d*pe!?! I really don’t care what he did in the past, I’m just glad he let that lifestyle go and now he is rich and famous for pushing records and any and every other legit thing he does to make money. Yeap that’s all I got, ok now bye!
yes, I mean in the 80’s. I know many real ones and he was not a don but a bottom.weak
Yes I did!
The one getting in the car also
They play tew much .
Morning Peepuls!
Yeah Ok!…JayZ is gonna Burn forever for poisoning his own people, so what folks think gonna happen to his NON_BLACK suppliers?
More Racism White Supremacy why don’t we talk about how the cocaine got into this country…we did’t have any private planes to fly in and out of Nicaragua and then somehow miraculously surpass customs with thousands of kilos of cocaine.
Sounds about right to me, I maintain he was murdered by overdose. Someone forcibly injected him with the drug like they did MJ.
This reminds me of AARP members talking about how good they used to tear some football up but haven’t seen a field since folks played in leather helmets.
It could very well be true. Though he was very talented and admired, he was only human.
Sometimes people just die.
EXACTLY!!!
these cookie-crackers always trying to cover their dirt
He told Pusha in those emails.
Pusha asked for a ghost story and GOT EEEM!!
me too lol
LIES! They wanted that mans catalog!!!!!!
yep!….money carries a spirit on it
Yep and one that a baby gorilla Is shown saying ya’ll killed my daddy. I’m done.. lmbo!
Why we care how much or little of the US Government’s drugs Jay Z was selling?
Why would this story even be in the media nowdays? He hasn’t been on a block in decades. As usual sounds like someone glamorizing selling drugs, who cares how much drugs he used to sell. Killing folks! Ignorant street folks!
This is sorta like the argument the descendants of slave masters use to justify slavery: “They were sold by their own people in Africa.” Two wrongs don’t make a right. Just because it was brought here doesn’t make it right for your benefit.
Opioids are painkillers, might be true he had hip problems.
Glad you stated that properly. People forget it’s their drugs we just the ding dongs who sell. Levels ?
I agree again sir ?
depending on what that body look like. i might be able to supply you with a stack like that…might be full of ones but a stack none the less
they put the gorilla in a casket????
what’s Dame doing back there?
that’s a damn shame…how bout you show love to the sister as if she was your sister, and give her the stack just because she black..!
you right!!
I’m so horrible. I just cackled
No chill
you’re right…niggas don’t need to accept the drugs, but because of the conditions of systematic daily oppression that niggas go through, they do it for survival (some for greed)…but most for survival. So while I hate that black men feed drugs to their own people, I also understand the diabolical situation that puts them in that predicament.
What part of CT?
We didn’t land on Plymouth Rock…
Bwahaha. We have been hoodwinked…bamboozled…led astray!
Jay definitely knows that too because since the day Emory returned back to these streets, he been living good and Jay been looking out.
I cried at this one. This is something Mama Butter would do.
…and this is why I will Forever call out THE REAL CRIMINALS (wh..people)…because they wanna act like they are innocent, but are FAR from that.
As he should… lol
Why are folks still surprised that he sold drugs?
Whites took slavery to an entirely different level. Doesn’t matter who sold humans to you. You are responsible for the savagery that you inflicted upon our ancestors. They would rather make excuses than accept responsibility.
Downtown Hartford is where I work, but I live outside of the city.
And when I read the caption, that said please donate to my daddy’s Go Fund Me…..REAL TEARS!!
let. it. go.
I guess he smuggled it all in too, huh? ?
He was sort of a modern day Joe Kennedy with drugs instead of liquor.
So, America and Europe built its wealth off black people.
New Post
Bounced checks blah blah blah *chicken hand gestures*
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I think most know Jay sold drugs, but I believe it’s the seemingly constant glamorizing that annoys many. He should no longer discuss it or use his platform to speak against it. Rather, he sells records retelling his exploits.
KMSL!!!!!!!
Right. And drug dealers are dirty scum bags who lack a conscious and a moral compass. Period. They commit atrocities in these streets every day, including killing innocent kids, and there’s always some idiot screaming… well the white man brought it here first. Ugh.
I think he’s exaggerating as well, especially since there’s no way to prove it. Whether it’s true or not, he seems so proud to put that out there. He knows the condition of our community and how easy it is to influence them, so why would he even go there.
Girl yes, I’m trying to find it so I can post it. Lol
This is ridiculous. Folks like to personify a bad boy image, doesn’t necessarily mean it’s true. It’s like when Soulja Boy said he’s raking in $400 million dollars and we all knew that was a lie.
Saw this on IG this morning had to chuckle — R.I.P. Harambe
Thats all??? thats hardly enough to rap about LOL LOL LOL
Only a kilo a week back in the early 90’s? Jay was definitely not a drug king pin…..
* yawn *
Sadly he did score a 400 million dollar deal lol. He’s not my cup of tea but the day he came in the game he was smart with business moves.
LOLOLOLOLOL
This man is 47, been involved in how many legitimate business’ and yet he’s still rapping about being a drug dealer…..change the record man, stop promoting being a dealer like doing drugs is something to be proud of.
We actually brought Europe up to speed with civilization but ?
LOL thats exactly what I was thinking
or the one with haranbe’s mother holding up his high school graduation photo saying he didn’t deserve to die like that or something. shyt has been hilarious.
once u in the dope game it never leaves u…no metter what!
but could be lyrics to stay relevant..
NEW POST, smh…
His drug hustling past is a joke…he was nothing more than a look out and a dime bag dealer at best.
Who freaking cares. He wasn’t the first.. the last.. or the only individual/celebrity in the industry to allegedly do it. Let’s start digging into all of their pasts.. including politicians and government officials as well. If you’re going to open this can of worms.. might as well go all the way. I’ll wait…
This is very true
Soooo what it’s just lyrics. It could be true or false but who in the heck cares?
While the media is so focused on who was selling it.. let’s start doing articles on who’s smoking/snorting/shooting it.. going back 20+ years.. I’ll wait.
Yesssssss
Don’t hold ya breath.lol
When you don’t know shit or even bother to find out where you came from you run the risk of sounding stupid ? hey hun
Black people didn’t bring slaves to America sooo they can miss me with that.
For way to long.
She is correct. That’s why they didn’t want slavery to end because the Europeans and the Americans (whites) were making hella money off slavery. I did do the research and that’s how I found out about it. Supposedly the kingdoms and lords etc were broke and slavery made them very wealthy.
It was the late 80″s early 90″s….And ?…Lets move on to what you are doing to help your COMMUNITY in 2016…No one Cares>>>
Who brought it to the hood is my question, and that was his past what can you do about it now when he no longer does that for a living…..
Remember yesterday when someone posted that picture of Birdman and that rent boy. Still LMAO!
Kmsl… Omg, I would have hollered.
LMBO!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG
Never gets old.
Or this one that was listed as “If Monday was a person!”
I am SO done at the very thought!!!! I got tears!
tell ME this is photo shop!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DONE, you hear me??!!!! DONE!!!! https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/615d380290005c75f2b73b61063d678adb00cb683258e4273a2f5c12b8d5723d.gif
Hey MissHarlem!! Exactly, one of the reason why I’ve been seeking the knowledge of our people. The work we put in Europe during the 7th century(I think) is easy to slip the mind because it was just more Melanin greatness purposely left out of our textbooks.
If you’re going to be a drug dealer, you might as well be the most successful one. There’s no Half steppin in the game…
The artifacts, murals etc. We are Kings and Queens. Just wish more would seek that. Everyday I research something. Hidden colors is good. Look into that. Piss you off but much appreciated. Hard to find because of the real.
I wonder what happened with his “friends” who were not that lucky??
More than 20 years later and they would still be in jail?? Or they are receiving “allowance” from Jay – Z to keep it on the low?
When the post mentions the “chickens coming home to roost,” it reminded me of an old article in the now defunct RapPages (?) magazine about Jay-Z. He was reportedly known as “chicken man,” because he worked at a chicken joint where he sold drugs through the drive thru. That’s a quick way to dispose of kilos.
When the post mentions the “chickens coming home to roost,” it reminded me of an old article in the now defunct RapPages (?) magazine about Jay-Z. He was reportedly known as “chicken man,” because he worked at a chicken joint where he sold drugs through the drive thru. That’s a quick way to dispose of kilos.
I’m deep into the Hidden Colors even tho I got onto it really late, waiting on part 4 dvd now. I missed the screening last week. I’ve always been a seeker of knowledge, but Hidden Colors put me On a New Level with seeking knowledge. Now I gotta go pick up some of these books by our brilliant people.
I read an article from 2010 by the Smoking Gun… Interesting that song comes out as Jones is back in the streets… Have to re-listen to “Do You wanna ride”
Interesting…
Typed under the wrong person…
I read an article from 2010 by the Smoking Gun… Interesting that song comes out as Jones is back in the streets… Have to re-listen to “Do You wanna ride”
Interesting…
They been out….Emory Jones works for Jay @ Roc Nation & DeHaven is broke and still in Brooklyn beefing with Jay
From illegal to legal the boy from Marcy did good.
Really… Lol… I thought he was faking. Ah well… Lol ?
Soo why is big mouth camel still branding about it. Middle age ex street dealer re living his glory days. What a joke. Proof that money can’t buy class.
Many wonder how 47-year-old Jay Z — real name Shawn Carter — got away with drug dealing and polluting the bodies of young people for so long
*****
I never wondered, not once
Cause he was asked too and he wasn’t talking about it but how to freak it, go legit and make sure your paper is right. You know the kind of paper you need to bank at Deutsche? He told these kids to get lawyers, pay them, get accountants, get accountants to watch them & make sure the gov’t get theirs. As with anything the negative will be talked about and the lesson missed.
Hmmm I would love to pick your brain on religion. FYI my opinion is unpopular.
Lol well if you listen to his earlier albums one would not have to wonder. He has touched on this for years we knew what jay did to get where he is today.
Emory went to jail, hunny. He just didn’t snitch on Jay. Hell, Biggs silly self got caught up after they were already famous. He’s home now too.
IDK BUT I THINK JAY LYING.STILL A FAN THOUGH. 95% OF THESE RAPPERS LIE AND SAY THEY SOLD DRUGS. NEXT THING YOU KNOW, YOU FIND OUT THEY WERE REALLY C.O’S…………BUT THAT’S NOT MY BUSINESS. LOL
? You KNOW I am good for that line, ESPECIALLY pertaining to Murr.
What they gonna do abt it???
Plymouth Rock landed on US!
You KNOW this is my other line. ?
Oh, I say and I say again, ya been HAD! Ya been took! Ya been hoodwinked! Bamboozled! Led astray! Run amok!
I love it! ?
What the…?
Probably because one doesn’t have anything to do with the other…he talked about the stabbing in Decoded…
My man and I was talking about Emory and Jay last night. Our take was Emory took the heat and time for Jay. Emory set for life. Which he basically says in Pusha rap.
WHO CARES! Judge ya mama.
Jigga never denied his past, so…..
Do we know that he’s still not pushing drugs?
Yasssss!!!! Glad you see what no one else does.. Only the real ones knows this!
Jay had him before he even got out. Early release because Jay wrote a letter to the judge, said Emory had a $50,000 job waiting for him….
Tip really did sell dope. I know the dude who used to sell it to him. Ive actually seen with my own eyes, him and Dro come and buy some booga suga. Dro is a true cane head. Seen him a few times gEttinger node candy. I’m not sure about Jay, but heard it was true.
8 ball, huh? Well alright.
8 ball, huh? Well alright.
I thought the company came out a few days ago and said it wasn’t that much and a day later Solja, or however you spell his name, cut all the rappers who had contracts from his label. Iono.
Wow. I’ve heard that a time or two. When I was a kid going to the corner store I heard someone tell a lady, “If you gonna hoe, be the best hoe you can be. Be #1.” Unbelievably, the person who said that to her would end up getting shot in the face and killed on that very spot. He beat one of them and she said no more. Not tuhdae.
They would then buy from the white dealers.
OK THANKS BECAUSE I THOUGHT TIP WAS PERPETRATING TOO.
Most people are walking around today looking and dressing like a pimp, and whore’s, we as a people are some sick people, do anything for fame and money. God is going to take care of all this.
Jigga man stay lying… he ain’t bout that life. Only a pu$$y stabs someone in the club. #LOOKITUP
Religion was the main reason I wanted to know more about where we came from. I’ve always questioned it. I just couldn’t believe that I’m supposed to worship something that was forced onto me by a white supremacist slave master. Strip us of everything, rape and murder men, women and children. Then give us a bible and tell us we should worship our master. So my opinion may be an unpopular one as well. I believe there is a God, I don’t believe in the religion that was forced onto our people for control.
I just intellectually had mind blowing sex with you just now. Yes my sentiments exactly. I always questioned it and got in trouble plenty of times in school for it. Never made sense to me.
Camel is a big Pimp, who pimped his wife and the rest of his Stable of Goatherders. GTFOH simpleton. Are actully trying to make this man a role model smh. Please get a life. and if you don’t like my comments FU
LOL.. made me think about Dead Prez “Mind Sex”. I haven’t heard that in a while so I got to play that today.
I know about 5 yrs ago I saw this documentary that was talking a lil bit of everything. From 9/11, Illuminati, etc, but what really caught my attention was them talking about the Egyptians and the concept of Christianity before Christianity was even thought of by Europeans.
Lol where I got that from. Yes I seen a similar clip and it was over from there. Come to the post up top
JAYZ is a Shepard for the Devil with those big camel lips, I’m surprised he did get hooked on the stuff with nostrils so big you can see his brain and what he’s thinking.
DeHaven…
Wasn’t he the one who was suppose to come out with a book to expose Jay?? I remember finding a website, then the day it was suppose to come out, website vanished and the book never came out
Yall going to hell with gasoline draws.
Yall going to hell with gasoline draws.
Channel 8 did a good program about cocaine and I was floored
Channel 8 did a good program about cocaine and I was floored
So what? We knew this in 96′. Y’all acting like Caucs.
Believe it or not, they are other men in terms rap game that do know him from those times….you have to listen when they are talking though…..ijs
If he did that’s not good smh he should be embarrassed to tell somebody that…not ashamed because that’s his past but he is still using it to sway the youth and corrupt the culture thats why I don’t fuc with the camel he is worse than a KKK member to black people when he continues to glorify the drug culture
It is what it is, think about all his accomplishments and what he has gave back
He brings it up not anyone else. To say the least he worked for somebody, he wasn’t this Big Fish , Emory Jones was that Big Fish. They Caught him and that’s that. Even Irby Dehaven his Man’s describes him as an exaggerator ” . Drug Dealer Yes but King Pin Hell No.
Exactly that’s what I was saying lol. It was some Street Level dudes in Buffalo doing 5 Kilos a Week some was doing 10 a week. And they wasn’t even considered a King Pen
His Audience is Drug Dealers or people living that hood life , his album would fail if he changes it.