“Who are you?” Canadian music journalist Nardwuar asked Jay-Z at the Pemberton Music Festival in Canada in 2008.
“I’m a young man from the Marcy Projects who really made that thing that they say ‘The American Dream’ come true. Because I’m not supposed to be here speaking to you,” the rapper said. “You know, there’s a lot of people who come from where I come from– there are a lot of skilled people who were I come from– who are not here right now,”
Born in Brooklyn and raised in the mean streets of Bedford–Stuyvesant, Jay-Z has either done it, gone through it, been accused of it, plead guilty to it, launched it, bought it, partnered with it, won it, or put a ring on it.
Forget the 10 platinum solo albums, which is more than anybody. Forget the 24 Grammys. Forget being hip-hop’s first billionaire.
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