1 00:00:00,720 --> 00:00:14,760 Speaker 1: Disgraceland is a production of Double Elvis. 2 00:00:19,720 --> 00:00:23,480 Speaker 2: The stories about jay Z are insane. As a boy, 3 00:00:23,600 --> 00:00:26,960 Speaker 2: he shot his own brother, he himself was shot at 4 00:00:27,440 --> 00:00:31,360 Speaker 2: arrested for drug possession, charged with the stabbing of a colleague. 5 00:00:31,880 --> 00:00:34,559 Speaker 2: Raised in one of the most violent housing projects in 6 00:00:34,600 --> 00:00:37,960 Speaker 2: the country, jay Z is imbued with a hustler sense 7 00:00:38,040 --> 00:00:41,960 Speaker 2: of the street, yet he's dined with presidents, keeps Warm Buffett, 8 00:00:42,080 --> 00:00:44,560 Speaker 2: one of the richest men on the planet on speed dial, 9 00:00:44,880 --> 00:00:47,920 Speaker 2: and continues to lend his name and his considerable wealth 10 00:00:48,040 --> 00:00:52,760 Speaker 2: the causes he believes in to help illuminate injustice. Jay 11 00:00:52,840 --> 00:00:56,480 Speaker 2: Z is impossible to simply categorize. He is as multi 12 00:00:56,560 --> 00:01:02,480 Speaker 2: hyphenate as they come. Rapper, producer, ceo, entrepreneur, activist. At 13 00:01:02,520 --> 00:01:05,959 Speaker 2: his core, though he will forever be simply a hustler, 14 00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:09,039 Speaker 2: a hustler who has made and continues to make some 15 00:01:09,160 --> 00:01:12,680 Speaker 2: of the greatest music of all time. Unlike that music 16 00:01:12,720 --> 00:01:14,399 Speaker 2: I played for you at the top of the show. 17 00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:18,119 Speaker 2: That wasn't great music. That was a preset loop from 18 00:01:18,120 --> 00:01:23,560 Speaker 2: my melotron called Hoboken Riddle MK One. I played you 19 00:01:23,640 --> 00:01:26,520 Speaker 2: that loop because I can't afford the rights to Smooth 20 00:01:26,640 --> 00:01:30,479 Speaker 2: by Santana and Rob Thomas, And why would I play 21 00:01:30,520 --> 00:01:34,840 Speaker 2: you that specific slice of Latin infused Nowhere Rock Cheese? 22 00:01:34,840 --> 00:01:38,600 Speaker 2: Could I afford it? Because that was the number one 23 00:01:38,680 --> 00:01:42,720 Speaker 2: song in America on December one, nineteen ninety nine, And 24 00:01:42,800 --> 00:01:46,160 Speaker 2: that was the night jay Z entered Manhattan's Kitcat Club 25 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:49,400 Speaker 2: and set off a melee, resulting in a stabbing that 26 00:01:49,600 --> 00:01:52,960 Speaker 2: very nearly derailed the career the most successful hip hop 27 00:01:53,040 --> 00:01:58,080 Speaker 2: artist of all time on this episode, a natural born hustler, 28 00:01:58,480 --> 00:02:01,920 Speaker 2: Nowhere Rock Cheese, the greatest flow in the game, a 29 00:02:02,080 --> 00:02:05,240 Speaker 2: nightclub stopping in the eighth wonder of the world, the 30 00:02:05,240 --> 00:02:09,840 Speaker 2: motherfucking greatest jay Z. So thank you, ladies and gentlemen. 31 00:02:10,080 --> 00:02:12,040 Speaker 2: You could have been anywhere in the world tonight, but 32 00:02:12,160 --> 00:02:18,240 Speaker 2: you're here with me. I appreciate that. I'm Jake Brennan 33 00:02:18,840 --> 00:02:20,800 Speaker 2: in this. It's disgraceland. 34 00:02:31,320 --> 00:02:34,359 Speaker 3: What we've been is are people and the mother. 35 00:02:35,120 --> 00:02:37,359 Speaker 4: Then if the same happy name for me, the awful 36 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:38,320 Speaker 4: to believe. 37 00:02:39,760 --> 00:02:43,080 Speaker 5: We've been to be with anybody's wont holing. Anybody that's 38 00:02:43,200 --> 00:02:44,959 Speaker 5: half m o't be mine. 39 00:02:46,639 --> 00:02:47,040 Speaker 6: Everything. 40 00:02:47,880 --> 00:02:49,680 Speaker 2: If every name we put back in the game of. 41 00:02:57,280 --> 00:03:10,000 Speaker 5: Everybody, everybody. 42 00:03:11,520 --> 00:03:28,200 Speaker 6: Be it n get me head money, drop head, puny Ron. 43 00:03:40,880 --> 00:03:46,040 Speaker 2: December fourth, nineteen sixty nine, Chicago. Fred Hampton had his 44 00:03:46,160 --> 00:03:49,360 Speaker 2: hustle on. As chairman of the Illinois Chapter of the 45 00:03:49,440 --> 00:03:53,400 Speaker 2: Black Panthers. He had to it was his job hustle 46 00:03:53,480 --> 00:03:57,320 Speaker 2: the Panthers, wrap hustle new recruits, hustle the revolution, make 47 00:03:57,520 --> 00:04:02,000 Speaker 2: every word count, make every speech America had it coming. 48 00:04:02,520 --> 00:04:05,240 Speaker 2: Years of white American oppression had led to the formation 49 00:04:05,400 --> 00:04:08,520 Speaker 2: of the Black Panther Party, and now it spoken radical, 50 00:04:08,800 --> 00:04:12,720 Speaker 2: sometimes violent organization that had felt the nineteen sixties winds 51 00:04:12,760 --> 00:04:16,440 Speaker 2: of change blowing through the cold Chicago air and decided 52 00:04:16,480 --> 00:04:20,200 Speaker 2: that the revolution would most certainly be televised and fucking 53 00:04:20,320 --> 00:04:24,520 Speaker 2: technicolor if they had anything to say about it. Freedom, 54 00:04:25,279 --> 00:04:28,800 Speaker 2: full employment of their people, an end to the robbery 55 00:04:28,839 --> 00:04:32,760 Speaker 2: of the black community by the white capitalists by any 56 00:04:32,839 --> 00:04:38,400 Speaker 2: means necessary. Brother Malcolm's hustle was spot on. Fred Hampton 57 00:04:38,480 --> 00:04:44,280 Speaker 2: knew it, and Fred had as wrapped down too. Just 58 00:04:44,400 --> 00:04:47,920 Speaker 2: like Malcolm X, Fred's flow was unique. Unlike any others, 59 00:04:48,400 --> 00:04:52,280 Speaker 2: Fred Hampton was a highly skilled orator. The Panthers brass 60 00:04:52,440 --> 00:04:54,360 Speaker 2: knew this, which is why, at the tender age of 61 00:04:54,520 --> 00:04:57,720 Speaker 2: nineteen he had rapidly ascended the leadership ranks of the 62 00:04:57,800 --> 00:05:02,600 Speaker 2: revolutionary organization. That's also why j Edgar Hoover had designated 63 00:05:02,680 --> 00:05:06,920 Speaker 2: Fred Hampton for the FBI's Agitator Index, marking him as 64 00:05:06,920 --> 00:05:09,960 Speaker 2: a key militant figure by the time he turned twenty one. 65 00:05:10,480 --> 00:05:13,640 Speaker 2: Using the index to track and monitor Hampton's every move, 66 00:05:15,600 --> 00:05:18,320 Speaker 2: he was followed by a g man. His mother's phone 67 00:05:18,440 --> 00:05:22,080 Speaker 2: was tapped. Unseen forces worked carefully to carry out a 68 00:05:22,160 --> 00:05:26,520 Speaker 2: disinformation campaign to sew discord between the Panthers and like 69 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:31,200 Speaker 2: minded revolutionaries, and most effectively, j Edgar Hoover managed to 70 00:05:31,279 --> 00:05:35,400 Speaker 2: place a spy high into Fred Hampton's inner circle. Fred's 71 00:05:35,440 --> 00:05:39,800 Speaker 2: bodyguard was a snitch. William O'Neill Rado Fucco had his 72 00:05:39,960 --> 00:05:43,760 Speaker 2: beef for felony carthat drop by the FBI in exchange 73 00:05:43,800 --> 00:05:46,200 Speaker 2: for rolling out Fred and his fellow Panthers to the 74 00:05:46,279 --> 00:05:50,480 Speaker 2: bureau on the regular, providing intel information on Fred's whereabouts, 75 00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:54,560 Speaker 2: the Black Panthers, plans, etc. For Hoover and his boys. 76 00:05:54,920 --> 00:05:59,160 Speaker 2: It was a highly effective asset. They heard everything, they 77 00:05:59,279 --> 00:06:02,680 Speaker 2: knew everything, and tonight they knew Fred Hampton was on 78 00:06:02,800 --> 00:06:05,880 Speaker 2: his game, firing up the neighborhood rank and file at 79 00:06:05,920 --> 00:06:09,320 Speaker 2: the Church of the Epiphany, spitting revolution to his own rhythm, 80 00:06:09,680 --> 00:06:17,279 Speaker 2: sans beat, a cappella, fireflow, irresistibly compelling. December sixty ninth, 81 00:06:17,600 --> 00:06:21,680 Speaker 2: the twilight of American idealism, uncivil disobedience in the air, 82 00:06:22,240 --> 00:06:25,000 Speaker 2: But eight hundred miles away in Brooklyn, things were a 83 00:06:25,080 --> 00:06:27,560 Speaker 2: bit more peaceful than they were back in Chicago on 84 00:06:27,680 --> 00:06:32,960 Speaker 2: that night, at least in the hospital room Gloria Carter 85 00:06:33,160 --> 00:06:36,800 Speaker 2: was occupying, and this was her fourth child. He would 86 00:06:36,839 --> 00:06:39,960 Speaker 2: come easy, she knew it. He'd be unaffected by the 87 00:06:40,040 --> 00:06:43,080 Speaker 2: birthing chaos ringing out throughout the rest of the maternity 88 00:06:43,160 --> 00:06:48,120 Speaker 2: ward floor. Baby's screaming, bloody murder, mother's bearing, unspeakable pain, 89 00:06:48,560 --> 00:06:52,279 Speaker 2: expectant fathers, those who'd managed to show up anyway, drunk 90 00:06:52,360 --> 00:06:57,080 Speaker 2: on anticipation or worse. Chaos ruled everything around her, but 91 00:06:57,440 --> 00:06:58,000 Speaker 2: not here. 92 00:06:57,920 --> 00:06:58,479 Speaker 6: In her room. 93 00:06:59,040 --> 00:07:02,040 Speaker 2: She had a feeling this one would be different, right 94 00:07:02,120 --> 00:07:09,280 Speaker 2: from the jump. He'd flow easy. December fourth, in the 95 00:07:09,360 --> 00:07:14,119 Speaker 2: wee hours after Fred's epiphany, Route four AM, Chicago's West Side, 96 00:07:14,640 --> 00:07:18,560 Speaker 2: outside of poverty blighted tenement building, a fourteen man government 97 00:07:18,640 --> 00:07:21,880 Speaker 2: sanctioned special ops unit headed up by the Chicago States 98 00:07:21,920 --> 00:07:26,480 Speaker 2: Attorney's Office in lockstep with Mayor Daily Chicago PD. It 99 00:07:26,640 --> 00:07:30,520 Speaker 2: was time no more fucking around. Just days ago, two 100 00:07:30,640 --> 00:07:33,800 Speaker 2: cops were shot dead, seven others riddled with bullets and 101 00:07:33,920 --> 00:07:36,760 Speaker 2: various shootouts with the Black Panthers, and the cops had 102 00:07:36,800 --> 00:07:39,760 Speaker 2: it on good authority from Hoover's inside man that the 103 00:07:39,800 --> 00:07:42,400 Speaker 2: apartment they were now posted up outside of on this 104 00:07:42,680 --> 00:07:47,920 Speaker 2: freezing Chicago morning, Fred Hampton's apartment was stockpiled with nineteen 105 00:07:48,040 --> 00:07:52,120 Speaker 2: guns and more than one thousand rounds of ammunition. The 106 00:07:52,240 --> 00:07:56,960 Speaker 2: plan was well underway. William O'Neill Hoover's snitch slash, Fred 107 00:07:57,000 --> 00:08:00,960 Speaker 2: Hampton's bodyguard had slipped Fred a barbituate after his speech 108 00:08:01,040 --> 00:08:03,800 Speaker 2: at the Church of the Epiphany earlier that night, and 109 00:08:03,920 --> 00:08:07,320 Speaker 2: the Feds, on his mom's wire tap, literally heard Hampton 110 00:08:07,440 --> 00:08:11,720 Speaker 2: pass out mid sentence around one am. He was inside asleep. 111 00:08:12,160 --> 00:08:14,920 Speaker 2: The revolution was put on pause, and if the FEDS 112 00:08:14,960 --> 00:08:17,160 Speaker 2: had anything to say about it, it would be quelled 113 00:08:17,240 --> 00:08:21,920 Speaker 2: completely before sunrise, and they crept up the front stairs, 114 00:08:22,400 --> 00:08:27,360 Speaker 2: guns drawn, eight cops, an assassin squad, another six cops 115 00:08:27,440 --> 00:08:30,920 Speaker 2: posted up behind the back door. A death trap. The 116 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:33,960 Speaker 2: stairs in the front hall could barely hold the approaching raiders. 117 00:08:34,520 --> 00:08:37,600 Speaker 2: They spat out their own burden with every step, creaking 118 00:08:37,720 --> 00:08:40,839 Speaker 2: and cracking with each creepy footfall. It was only a 119 00:08:40,880 --> 00:08:43,440 Speaker 2: matter of time before the authorities were made and they 120 00:08:43,480 --> 00:08:45,400 Speaker 2: were about to lose the element of surprise if they 121 00:08:45,440 --> 00:08:49,480 Speaker 2: didn't act fast. Four forty five am, a cop at 122 00:08:49,520 --> 00:08:51,680 Speaker 2: the front of the line kicked in Fred Hampton's door. 123 00:08:54,040 --> 00:08:56,000 Speaker 2: Panther Mark Clarke, was sitting in a chair on the 124 00:08:56,040 --> 00:08:58,000 Speaker 2: other side of the door, a shotgun at his lap. 125 00:08:58,240 --> 00:09:02,640 Speaker 2: The security duty the cop shot him instantly direct straight 126 00:09:02,720 --> 00:09:05,520 Speaker 2: to the chest. The impact of the shooting caused Mark's 127 00:09:05,559 --> 00:09:09,000 Speaker 2: finger to pull the trigger a reflexive desk convulsion. His 128 00:09:09,160 --> 00:09:12,520 Speaker 2: gun discharged into the ceiling. Post mortems, they came out 129 00:09:12,559 --> 00:09:14,760 Speaker 2: of nowhere and it scared the fuck out of everyone. 130 00:09:15,640 --> 00:09:19,320 Speaker 2: But for the raiders it was a fortunate accident. Shots fired, 131 00:09:19,640 --> 00:09:23,160 Speaker 2: ship was on, Bullets blasted out from the raiding team 132 00:09:23,240 --> 00:09:25,960 Speaker 2: from inside the apartment. The rest of the cops barreled 133 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:29,760 Speaker 2: into the tiny flat. They had one mission, fine Fred Hampton. 134 00:09:30,280 --> 00:09:34,079 Speaker 2: They kicked open the bedroom door and there he was dead, asleep, 135 00:09:34,400 --> 00:09:37,640 Speaker 2: drugged to the gills. His nine months pregnant fiance had 136 00:09:37,640 --> 00:09:40,560 Speaker 2: his side, shouting her pretty little face off. One cop 137 00:09:40,640 --> 00:09:43,120 Speaker 2: grabbed her by the hair and dragged her, screaming bloody murder, 138 00:09:43,160 --> 00:09:46,960 Speaker 2: out of the bedroom. Fred lay silent, sleeping, drugged, oblivious. 139 00:09:47,320 --> 00:09:49,559 Speaker 2: The cops in the room noticed blood on his shoulder. 140 00:09:49,880 --> 00:09:52,079 Speaker 2: Somehow he caught a bullet from the initial melee, but 141 00:09:52,160 --> 00:09:55,679 Speaker 2: he was alive and still asleep. Harold Bell, a fellow 142 00:09:55,720 --> 00:09:58,559 Speaker 2: black panther, was in the other room, hands up on 143 00:09:58,720 --> 00:10:02,640 Speaker 2: his knees, surrendering, his eyes and ears wide open. Heard 144 00:10:02,679 --> 00:10:07,120 Speaker 2: one cop say to another, that's Fred Hampton, and the 145 00:10:07,200 --> 00:10:11,120 Speaker 2: reply is he dead. Bring him out. He's barely alive. 146 00:10:11,840 --> 00:10:15,199 Speaker 2: He'll make it. Bring him out, but rustling something being 147 00:10:15,280 --> 00:10:19,280 Speaker 2: dragged across wooden floorboards, and then Bell heard two shots, 148 00:10:21,160 --> 00:10:26,200 Speaker 2: and the screaming stopped and there was silence. One cop 149 00:10:26,280 --> 00:10:34,320 Speaker 2: broke it, saying he's good and dead now. They dragged 150 00:10:34,360 --> 00:10:37,319 Speaker 2: Fred Hampton's body into the bedroom doorway and left it 151 00:10:37,480 --> 00:10:41,400 Speaker 2: lying in a pool of blood. Then the cops went hunting. 152 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:45,040 Speaker 2: They fired multiple shots into the second doorway, wounding four 153 00:10:45,160 --> 00:10:48,319 Speaker 2: other panthers. They dragged their bloody, beaten bodies down the 154 00:10:48,400 --> 00:10:51,720 Speaker 2: stairs out into the street and arrested them for assault 155 00:10:51,760 --> 00:10:55,760 Speaker 2: and attempted murder of the police officers and Fred Fred 156 00:10:55,920 --> 00:10:59,600 Speaker 2: was dead and sadly for the purposes of the revolution, 157 00:11:00,200 --> 00:11:05,160 Speaker 2: so was his hustle. Back in Brooklyn, Floria Carter's newborn 158 00:11:05,280 --> 00:11:09,559 Speaker 2: baby was very much alive. Despite weighing ten pounds eight ounces, 159 00:11:09,880 --> 00:11:13,040 Speaker 2: He flowed easily out of her birth canal. She named 160 00:11:13,080 --> 00:11:17,280 Speaker 2: him Sean Sean Carter. He'd one day take on many names. 161 00:11:18,320 --> 00:11:21,079 Speaker 2: Jehovah as in Jehovah, as in the god m See 162 00:11:21,200 --> 00:11:24,520 Speaker 2: because of his flow, the CEO of the ROC, because 163 00:11:24,559 --> 00:11:27,200 Speaker 2: of his hustle, and known the world over as simply 164 00:11:27,320 --> 00:11:31,080 Speaker 2: as jay Z. He was born on December fourth, nineteen 165 00:11:31,240 --> 00:11:34,640 Speaker 2: sixty nine, and he arrived on the day Fred Hampton died. 166 00:11:35,480 --> 00:11:38,560 Speaker 2: Because real hustlers just multiply. 167 00:12:00,640 --> 00:12:01,120 Speaker 7: My world. 168 00:12:01,160 --> 00:12:05,280 Speaker 8: We were called hustlers in the corporate world to call 169 00:12:05,400 --> 00:12:06,520 Speaker 8: CEOs and businessmen. 170 00:12:07,080 --> 00:12:14,600 Speaker 2: I used to talk a lot. I was slick, I. 171 00:12:14,640 --> 00:12:15,559 Speaker 4: Will slick. 172 00:12:17,400 --> 00:12:17,920 Speaker 9: I will. 173 00:12:20,800 --> 00:12:21,600 Speaker 2: In a corporate world. 174 00:12:21,679 --> 00:12:22,440 Speaker 8: They call that a. 175 00:12:22,520 --> 00:12:24,920 Speaker 4: Master community care. Okay. 176 00:12:25,679 --> 00:12:29,280 Speaker 8: So here were the parallels between the street hustler, multi 177 00:12:29,320 --> 00:12:32,280 Speaker 8: million dollar drug killers who never used drugs, who never 178 00:12:32,440 --> 00:12:34,959 Speaker 8: was a part of gangs, who never carried guns, age 179 00:12:35,040 --> 00:12:44,319 Speaker 8: nineteen millionaire. So it was in nineteen eighty four and 180 00:12:44,440 --> 00:12:48,560 Speaker 8: I embraced a criminal lifestyle. My criminal lifestyle was shaped 181 00:12:48,880 --> 00:12:53,240 Speaker 8: by my mentors. I wanted more for my mother. I 182 00:12:53,400 --> 00:12:54,480 Speaker 8: wanted more for my mother. 183 00:12:56,960 --> 00:12:59,440 Speaker 4: I decided that this was the way for me, which 184 00:12:59,600 --> 00:12:59,880 Speaker 4: was for me. 185 00:13:00,280 --> 00:13:04,000 Speaker 8: Tickets for tens of thousands of young men in of color, 186 00:13:04,320 --> 00:13:06,199 Speaker 8: in inner city communities of Frossen Els. 187 00:13:06,400 --> 00:13:08,640 Speaker 2: I was one of those guys. And it's not something 188 00:13:08,679 --> 00:13:09,400 Speaker 2: that I'm proud of. 189 00:13:09,840 --> 00:13:12,200 Speaker 8: Well, you always have to go back to the beginning. 190 00:13:12,440 --> 00:13:20,240 Speaker 2: Of how it began. Ambitious, slick, smooth, cunning. The hustler 191 00:13:20,400 --> 00:13:24,640 Speaker 2: is all of these things, but he is also distrusting, insecure, 192 00:13:24,800 --> 00:13:27,760 Speaker 2: and paranoid. And right now, in the year of nineteen 193 00:13:27,840 --> 00:13:31,920 Speaker 2: ninety four, this Marcia Housing Project's hustler was paranoid is 194 00:13:32,120 --> 00:13:35,719 Speaker 2: fuck racing down the New Jersey Turnpike, the drug thoroughfare 195 00:13:35,800 --> 00:13:38,760 Speaker 2: between his stash house in Brooklyn and the open markets 196 00:13:38,800 --> 00:13:44,360 Speaker 2: he was conquering in Maryland, DC in Virginia. The Nissan 197 00:13:44,480 --> 00:13:49,880 Speaker 2: Maximum wasn't the Lexus he wanted, but it did the trick. Reliable, inconspicuous, comfortable, 198 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:53,440 Speaker 2: and most important, it was mechanically tricked out with stealth 199 00:13:53,520 --> 00:13:57,079 Speaker 2: hiding spots for his package. The secret compartment in the 200 00:13:57,160 --> 00:14:00,320 Speaker 2: interior near the sun roof was the spot A large 201 00:14:00,360 --> 00:14:04,600 Speaker 2: stash of crack cocaine was inconspicuously hidden. Only he knew 202 00:14:04,600 --> 00:14:07,240 Speaker 2: where it was. The cop who had stopped him a 203 00:14:07,280 --> 00:14:10,760 Speaker 2: few minutes ago had no idea, but the German shepherd 204 00:14:10,800 --> 00:14:13,480 Speaker 2: from the canine unit most certainly would know, because the 205 00:14:13,600 --> 00:14:16,920 Speaker 2: dog was an ace drug tracker. A female, the bitch 206 00:14:17,040 --> 00:14:20,440 Speaker 2: had a more balanced temperament than her male counterparts and 207 00:14:20,640 --> 00:14:24,640 Speaker 2: was better inclined from meticulous drug tracking. The cop was 208 00:14:24,720 --> 00:14:27,920 Speaker 2: waiting on the side of the road, impatient the hustler 209 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:30,600 Speaker 2: and the driver's seat of his Maxima, who was known 210 00:14:30,680 --> 00:14:33,320 Speaker 2: on the street simply as Shone and in wrap battle 211 00:14:33,400 --> 00:14:36,800 Speaker 2: circles as Jazzy, or increasingly by those back in the 212 00:14:36,880 --> 00:14:38,920 Speaker 2: New York hip hop scene who were in awe of 213 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:42,800 Speaker 2: as highly unique flow as jay Z was sweating it. 214 00:14:43,560 --> 00:14:48,200 Speaker 2: His heartbeat, raged, pulsated almost through the roof, squirreled, stash 215 00:14:48,320 --> 00:14:51,440 Speaker 2: and all when those highway patrol blues flashed behind him, 216 00:14:51,480 --> 00:14:55,400 Speaker 2: pulling them over. Luckily the caneine unit was delayed. The 217 00:14:55,520 --> 00:14:59,120 Speaker 2: cop grew irritated, pissed the dogs were laid, pissed his 218 00:14:59,240 --> 00:15:02,120 Speaker 2: search came up empty. Pissed because he knew this young 219 00:15:02,240 --> 00:15:04,640 Speaker 2: black man with the tilted Yankee sprim and out of 220 00:15:04,720 --> 00:15:08,040 Speaker 2: state plates was holding pissed he could do nothing about it, 221 00:15:08,160 --> 00:15:11,120 Speaker 2: and pissed that he had to let him go freed 222 00:15:11,200 --> 00:15:14,680 Speaker 2: from potential arrest. As Jay drove down the Jersey Turnpike 223 00:15:14,720 --> 00:15:17,000 Speaker 2: and watched the Canine unit race by him in the 224 00:15:17,080 --> 00:15:20,600 Speaker 2: other direction, he called it he had ninety nine problems, 225 00:15:20,680 --> 00:15:26,280 Speaker 2: but at a bitch ain't won hit me, and jay 226 00:15:26,400 --> 00:15:29,200 Speaker 2: Z dodged a bullet. He knew it. It was only 227 00:15:29,240 --> 00:15:32,120 Speaker 2: a matter of time though, before it be caught or killed. 228 00:15:32,720 --> 00:15:35,400 Speaker 2: He'd already been shot at three times from close range 229 00:15:35,440 --> 00:15:39,320 Speaker 2: and remarkably survived. It was a wake up call. Jay 230 00:15:39,440 --> 00:15:43,040 Speaker 2: was egotistical enough to suppose that his unscathed survival was 231 00:15:43,160 --> 00:15:46,600 Speaker 2: divine intervention. He was meant for greater things than the 232 00:15:46,680 --> 00:15:49,800 Speaker 2: street game. He was special. He knew it. His mother 233 00:15:49,920 --> 00:15:52,760 Speaker 2: told him so all the time, and lately she wasn't 234 00:15:52,760 --> 00:15:59,800 Speaker 2: the only one. The rap game he'd had one foot 235 00:15:59,800 --> 00:16:01,960 Speaker 2: in from his early teens, battling it out on the 236 00:16:02,040 --> 00:16:05,920 Speaker 2: Marcy Houses pavement, beating out rhythms on high school cafeteria 237 00:16:06,040 --> 00:16:09,080 Speaker 2: tables to rhyme over He could feel the poll the 238 00:16:09,160 --> 00:16:13,000 Speaker 2: allure He was damn good, better than most. Every time 239 00:16:13,040 --> 00:16:14,840 Speaker 2: he spit a rhyme in the company of others, he 240 00:16:14,960 --> 00:16:17,800 Speaker 2: was quickly reminded how good he was, how unique his 241 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:21,960 Speaker 2: flow was. He vanquished all comers. He was invited on 242 00:16:22,120 --> 00:16:25,280 Speaker 2: stage with his hero rap pioneer Big Daddy Kane, with 243 00:16:25,440 --> 00:16:27,920 Speaker 2: two other lesser known rappers like him who were also 244 00:16:28,080 --> 00:16:32,160 Speaker 2: studying at the foot of Kin, Tupac shakor Queen Latifa. 245 00:16:33,240 --> 00:16:36,440 Speaker 2: Jay Z stood out in this talented company, HIPing Caine 246 00:16:36,520 --> 00:16:38,800 Speaker 2: up on stage, filling in for him on the mic 247 00:16:38,840 --> 00:16:43,040 Speaker 2: while he headed backstage for costume changes. Jay Z crushed 248 00:16:43,400 --> 00:16:47,880 Speaker 2: Cain started imitating his style. It wasn't long before he 249 00:16:48,040 --> 00:16:51,120 Speaker 2: was offered the opportunity to wrap on other MC's tracks. 250 00:16:51,760 --> 00:16:55,320 Speaker 2: With every studio guest spot. His reputation grew. But jay 251 00:16:55,440 --> 00:16:58,600 Speaker 2: wasn't so easily seduced by the music industry. It was 252 00:16:58,800 --> 00:17:02,280 Speaker 2: just another hustle, barely more legit and barely less dangerous 253 00:17:02,320 --> 00:17:04,760 Speaker 2: than the drug game. At least out on the street, 254 00:17:04,800 --> 00:17:07,680 Speaker 2: you knew where you stood with people in the music business, 255 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:11,200 Speaker 2: a cesspool of suited up vipers. You were getting secretly 256 00:17:11,240 --> 00:17:14,040 Speaker 2: shook down while they shook your hand in real talk. 257 00:17:14,240 --> 00:17:16,639 Speaker 2: The money was good, but it wasn't that good. It 258 00:17:16,760 --> 00:17:18,919 Speaker 2: wasn't like what he was bringing in from his connections 259 00:17:18,960 --> 00:17:23,200 Speaker 2: down Interstate ninety five plus. Jay thought most rappers were 260 00:17:23,440 --> 00:17:27,800 Speaker 2: complete clowns, pretending to be hustlers, dealers, violent street thugs. 261 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:31,040 Speaker 2: He was already all of these things. The game was 262 00:17:31,160 --> 00:17:33,639 Speaker 2: no game. It was not to be fucked with. You 263 00:17:33,760 --> 00:17:40,080 Speaker 2: were real or not. You were either in or out, disinterested, hard, real, 264 00:17:40,160 --> 00:17:44,679 Speaker 2: street politic, practical minded, criminal minded. Whatever his inclination at 265 00:17:44,680 --> 00:17:47,159 Speaker 2: the time, jay Z still knew his fate if he 266 00:17:47,200 --> 00:17:50,240 Speaker 2: stayed in the streets, So when others around him continued 267 00:17:50,280 --> 00:17:53,879 Speaker 2: to push a rap career, he increasingly softened to the idea. 268 00:17:54,600 --> 00:17:57,400 Speaker 2: He couldn't get rhyming out of his system anyway. Since 269 00:17:57,400 --> 00:17:59,640 Speaker 2: he was a young boy, he wrote lyrics in his head. 270 00:18:00,160 --> 00:18:03,280 Speaker 2: Inspired by the storytelling of Slick Rick and the hard 271 00:18:03,400 --> 00:18:07,520 Speaker 2: flow and lyrical prowess of Rakim, Young Sean Carter used 272 00:18:07,640 --> 00:18:10,680 Speaker 2: rhymes to form his own internal identity to tell his 273 00:18:10,800 --> 00:18:15,200 Speaker 2: own story. For years, he kept that story percolating inside, 274 00:18:15,600 --> 00:18:18,400 Speaker 2: honing his craft in private, even though he had next 275 00:18:18,440 --> 00:18:22,720 Speaker 2: to no privacy in the notorious Marci projects. After his 276 00:18:22,840 --> 00:18:25,720 Speaker 2: father abandoned the family to pursue a blood feud when 277 00:18:25,760 --> 00:18:29,119 Speaker 2: Sean was ten. He had been a quiet kid, distrustful. 278 00:18:29,600 --> 00:18:31,800 Speaker 2: He told his story in his head on its street 279 00:18:31,880 --> 00:18:34,560 Speaker 2: corners while he was hustling, but everyone who heard him 280 00:18:34,600 --> 00:18:38,240 Speaker 2: freestyle heard that story spill out. The street hustler brought 281 00:18:38,280 --> 00:18:41,440 Speaker 2: to life through rhyme. The story was instantly compelling in 282 00:18:41,520 --> 00:18:44,880 Speaker 2: his voice. The sound of it all that natural vulnerability. 283 00:18:44,960 --> 00:18:47,719 Speaker 2: It played against Jay's put on cockiness and made him 284 00:18:47,760 --> 00:18:52,600 Speaker 2: relatable an a plus reliable narrator. Whatever efforts he made 285 00:18:52,640 --> 00:18:55,439 Speaker 2: in the rap game as a young street entrepreneur, they 286 00:18:55,520 --> 00:18:58,879 Speaker 2: served as a front for his drug dealing hustle. The 287 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:01,320 Speaker 2: first and the fourteenth of the month, everyone going to 288 00:19:01,359 --> 00:19:04,639 Speaker 2: get well the blighted hopelessness of the mid eighties Marsie 289 00:19:04,720 --> 00:19:07,840 Speaker 2: housing projects where for some food in the pantry was 290 00:19:07,920 --> 00:19:10,920 Speaker 2: timed to buy monthly welfare checks, and crackheads could be 291 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:14,120 Speaker 2: seen being herded like cattle by predatory dealers as soon 292 00:19:14,160 --> 00:19:16,920 Speaker 2: as those checks came in. Jay Z was one of 293 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:20,080 Speaker 2: those dealers. There would be no checks for jay Z's mom, 294 00:19:20,520 --> 00:19:23,760 Speaker 2: just cash. His old man had split, so Jay would 295 00:19:23,800 --> 00:19:26,120 Speaker 2: take what his environment had to offer and he would 296 00:19:26,119 --> 00:19:30,280 Speaker 2: provide Marsi houses. This is where teenage jay Z made 297 00:19:30,320 --> 00:19:32,800 Speaker 2: his money, and this is where jay Z honed his 298 00:19:32,960 --> 00:19:38,439 Speaker 2: musical talent. While making his bones stealing on the street. 299 00:19:38,720 --> 00:19:41,600 Speaker 2: He cut his teeth at his mother's kitchen table, reading 300 00:19:41,680 --> 00:19:45,040 Speaker 2: the dictionary front to back to improve his vocabulary and 301 00:19:45,160 --> 00:19:50,040 Speaker 2: thus his freestyle ability. The learned vocab complimented his natural gift. 302 00:19:50,480 --> 00:19:53,520 Speaker 2: He was a master of that syncopated flow, the kind 303 00:19:53,600 --> 00:19:57,400 Speaker 2: that slides over the beat like continent slide over tectonic plates, 304 00:19:57,760 --> 00:20:01,879 Speaker 2: revealing the volcanic churning underneath only if Jehovah commands it, 305 00:20:02,200 --> 00:20:05,600 Speaker 2: and for Jehovah underneath it all deep down, the smooth, 306 00:20:05,720 --> 00:20:11,400 Speaker 2: irresistible flow birth the burning fire of ambition. DJ Clark Kent, 307 00:20:11,600 --> 00:20:14,440 Speaker 2: who was well aware of Jay's talent, had been trying 308 00:20:14,480 --> 00:20:17,080 Speaker 2: to sign Ja to Atlantic Records as soon as Kent 309 00:20:17,200 --> 00:20:21,000 Speaker 2: got his an R gig. Jay, Ever, the hustler, smartly 310 00:20:21,040 --> 00:20:25,280 Speaker 2: played hard to get. He wasn't interested, and frankly, Kent's 311 00:20:25,280 --> 00:20:29,080 Speaker 2: bosses at Atlantic weren't that interested either. Kent knew that 312 00:20:29,200 --> 00:20:31,520 Speaker 2: if Jay was going to hustle as an artist, he 313 00:20:31,680 --> 00:20:34,760 Speaker 2: needed a business counterpart to take care of the nasty bits, 314 00:20:35,080 --> 00:20:39,119 Speaker 2: to push and to protect Jay Kent tooked him up 315 00:20:39,200 --> 00:20:42,880 Speaker 2: with Damon Dash, a successful club promoter from up in Harlem. 316 00:20:43,480 --> 00:20:46,280 Speaker 2: The idea was that Dame would manage Jay take care 317 00:20:46,320 --> 00:20:48,600 Speaker 2: of the business while the god m C took care 318 00:20:48,640 --> 00:20:52,000 Speaker 2: of the rhymes. Kent's inclination was that with the right 319 00:20:52,119 --> 00:20:54,960 Speaker 2: hustle behind the right hustler, that a record deal would 320 00:20:54,960 --> 00:20:58,440 Speaker 2: happen on the quick. Dame Dash was exactly that type 321 00:20:58,480 --> 00:21:02,520 Speaker 2: of hustler, and jay Z proved early that his business 322 00:21:02,680 --> 00:21:06,080 Speaker 2: instincts were as a stude as his creative ones. When 323 00:21:06,119 --> 00:21:09,640 Speaker 2: Atlantic Records eventually passed on jay Z, Jay and Dash 324 00:21:09,800 --> 00:21:13,560 Speaker 2: dared to create their own independent record label, Rockefeller Records, 325 00:21:13,840 --> 00:21:17,480 Speaker 2: to sell jay Z's debut album, Reasonable Dope. It was 326 00:21:17,560 --> 00:21:19,800 Speaker 2: a risk. It was their own money on the table, 327 00:21:19,880 --> 00:21:22,200 Speaker 2: and that money would be gone if the record flopped. 328 00:21:22,760 --> 00:21:25,560 Speaker 2: To further bet on himself to double down on his instincts, 329 00:21:25,960 --> 00:21:28,800 Speaker 2: Jay then had the audacity to proclaim that this his 330 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:32,359 Speaker 2: first record would be his last. It was unheard of 331 00:21:32,880 --> 00:21:36,320 Speaker 2: where other rappers were practically begging for music industry kingmakers 332 00:21:36,359 --> 00:21:38,600 Speaker 2: to put out their records. Jay was like, yeah, I'm 333 00:21:38,600 --> 00:21:41,639 Speaker 2: all set, I'll do one and then bounce. Jay had 334 00:21:41,680 --> 00:21:44,080 Speaker 2: a new kind of attitude, and he had something to say, 335 00:21:44,560 --> 00:21:47,360 Speaker 2: and the streets were his story. He was the real deal. 336 00:21:47,720 --> 00:21:50,359 Speaker 2: He had a budding and waiting audience for his debut 337 00:21:50,640 --> 00:21:53,200 Speaker 2: because of his reputation on the street and the buzz 338 00:21:53,280 --> 00:21:55,959 Speaker 2: he created by proclaiming that his music career would end 339 00:21:56,080 --> 00:21:59,240 Speaker 2: almost as soon as it began. It was a master stroke, 340 00:21:59,720 --> 00:22:02,399 Speaker 2: and anticipation for the album built up and on its 341 00:22:02,440 --> 00:22:05,520 Speaker 2: release via distribution deal, Jay and Dame hooked up with 342 00:22:05,600 --> 00:22:09,119 Speaker 2: Priority Records in the summer of nineteen ninety six. Jay 343 00:22:09,240 --> 00:22:12,119 Speaker 2: Z's Reasonable Doubt debuted at number twenty three on the 344 00:22:12,160 --> 00:22:17,240 Speaker 2: Billboard two hundred and charted for eighteen weeks, ultimately going platinum. 345 00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:25,200 Speaker 2: Once the word was out, Jay's rise to the top 346 00:22:25,359 --> 00:22:27,520 Speaker 2: was as smooth as the ride in the new Lexus 347 00:22:27,560 --> 00:22:31,280 Speaker 2: he purchased. After Reasonable Doubt, Rockefeller leveled up to a 348 00:22:31,359 --> 00:22:34,760 Speaker 2: distro deal with def jammed release. Of course, his next album, 349 00:22:34,880 --> 00:22:37,040 Speaker 2: Forget That One and Done Bullshit. Jay was now a 350 00:22:37,119 --> 00:22:40,119 Speaker 2: Star in My Life Volume one, which was followed a 351 00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:42,960 Speaker 2: year later by volume two, Hard Knock Life, with the 352 00:22:43,119 --> 00:22:45,600 Speaker 2: monster single of the same name that traded on a 353 00:22:45,640 --> 00:22:48,400 Speaker 2: little orphan anty riff of all damned things and led 354 00:22:48,440 --> 00:22:53,240 Speaker 2: to the record being certified platinum five times. Over another year, 355 00:22:53,359 --> 00:22:57,240 Speaker 2: another album, The Hustle Never Stopped. In nineteen ninety nine, 356 00:22:57,520 --> 00:22:59,880 Speaker 2: jay Z was set to release Volume three, The Life 357 00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:03,000 Speaker 2: Times of s Carter, with a rumored collaboration with pop 358 00:23:03,080 --> 00:23:08,000 Speaker 2: princess Mariah Carey. Nineteen ninety nine was also the year 359 00:23:08,119 --> 00:23:12,320 Speaker 2: Jay and Dame founded the fashion label Rockawaar. Endorsement deals 360 00:23:12,359 --> 00:23:15,560 Speaker 2: with other brands weren't an option, no problem. Start your 361 00:23:15,600 --> 00:23:18,840 Speaker 2: own brand, trade on the trends you were setting. Trade 362 00:23:18,880 --> 00:23:22,000 Speaker 2: on that mafioso hood rap, take three sewing machines in 363 00:23:22,080 --> 00:23:24,840 Speaker 2: a barren downtown office and spin off eighty million in 364 00:23:24,920 --> 00:23:28,240 Speaker 2: profit in just eighteen months. Fuck the middleman. It was 365 00:23:28,280 --> 00:23:31,440 Speaker 2: a valuable lesson. Own that shit. Be your own boss, 366 00:23:31,640 --> 00:23:33,920 Speaker 2: just like you were back in the corner. Don't take 367 00:23:33,960 --> 00:23:37,199 Speaker 2: no shit off anyone ever. Use your own hustle. Use 368 00:23:37,240 --> 00:23:39,000 Speaker 2: your hustle to get to where you need to get 369 00:23:39,040 --> 00:23:43,359 Speaker 2: to by any means necessary, just like Malcolm, Just like Fred. 370 00:23:43,720 --> 00:23:46,720 Speaker 2: But be smart, stay on the right side of that violence. 371 00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:55,000 Speaker 4: We'll be right back after this word word word, by 372 00:23:55,160 --> 00:23:57,040 Speaker 4: any means necessary. 373 00:24:03,119 --> 00:24:05,879 Speaker 5: To get the criminal of his band when our criminals 374 00:24:05,960 --> 00:24:07,080 Speaker 5: bats missed mules in me. 375 00:24:07,720 --> 00:24:10,680 Speaker 10: I am going to healse whatever necessary to get that 376 00:24:10,840 --> 00:24:12,080 Speaker 10: criminal off my ban. 377 00:24:14,480 --> 00:24:17,240 Speaker 6: Brian Hemby leaves. 378 00:24:21,680 --> 00:24:25,200 Speaker 2: Sean Puff Daddy Combs arrested December nineteen ninety nine on 379 00:24:25,359 --> 00:24:29,280 Speaker 2: gun charges after a shooting in a Manhattan club. DMX 380 00:24:29,440 --> 00:24:32,359 Speaker 2: arrested on gun charges and animal cruelty in New Jersey, 381 00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:37,200 Speaker 2: Old Dirty Bastard possession of marijuana and crack cocaine. Something 382 00:24:37,320 --> 00:24:39,640 Speaker 2: was going on in the New York City hip hop scene. 383 00:24:40,359 --> 00:24:42,880 Speaker 2: It all went back to the murders of Tupac Shakor 384 00:24:43,040 --> 00:24:46,520 Speaker 2: and Jay Z's Brooklyn brother in arms, Christopher Biggie Small's 385 00:24:46,600 --> 00:24:51,879 Speaker 2: Wallace aka the Notorious Big. The killings didn't happen in 386 00:24:51,960 --> 00:24:54,159 Speaker 2: New York, but their infamy in the minds of New 387 00:24:54,240 --> 00:24:59,000 Speaker 2: York's finest had justified the formation of the NYPD's latest initiative, 388 00:24:59,359 --> 00:25:01,960 Speaker 2: the Hip Hop Task Force, or, as they took to 389 00:25:02,040 --> 00:25:06,600 Speaker 2: calling themselves, the Rap Squad. Their mandate keep tabs on 390 00:25:06,720 --> 00:25:10,240 Speaker 2: New York City's big name mcs. Their entourages, rate the 391 00:25:10,320 --> 00:25:13,959 Speaker 2: danger of shootouts, other violence or drug charges make arrests 392 00:25:14,160 --> 00:25:18,159 Speaker 2: make headlines. If gangster rap had lyrically picked up on 393 00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:21,800 Speaker 2: the more violent strains of black sixties radicalism by way 394 00:25:21,840 --> 00:25:24,960 Speaker 2: of Compton realism. Then it only made sense that, just 395 00:25:25,119 --> 00:25:28,240 Speaker 2: like Fred Hampton's Black Panthers, rap would have its own 396 00:25:28,359 --> 00:25:34,000 Speaker 2: hooveresque intelligence units keeping tabs from coast to coast. So 397 00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:36,280 Speaker 2: Jay heard the rumor of the squad, but it had 398 00:25:36,359 --> 00:25:39,800 Speaker 2: worried him little. He was clean, Dealing drugs was in 399 00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:42,879 Speaker 2: the past. Making records was than now, and he had 400 00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:45,960 Speaker 2: a banger of an album about to drop, Volume three, 401 00:25:46,280 --> 00:25:48,359 Speaker 2: The Life and Times of s Carter, in just a 402 00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:51,320 Speaker 2: few weeks. He was hoping to hit half a million 403 00:25:51,359 --> 00:25:54,560 Speaker 2: in sales in the first seven days. Certify that shit 404 00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:57,320 Speaker 2: a massive success from the jump, just like everything else 405 00:25:57,359 --> 00:26:00,600 Speaker 2: he touched. But there was a problem. The record had 406 00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:04,080 Speaker 2: been bootlegged a month in advance of its drop, on 407 00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:07,399 Speaker 2: the heels of the highly successful pre released single collaboration 408 00:26:07,560 --> 00:26:10,440 Speaker 2: with Mariah Carey for the song Heartbreaker, a song that 409 00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:13,360 Speaker 2: hit number one on the Billboard chart and a song 410 00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:16,480 Speaker 2: that had set up the record for explosive sales upon 411 00:26:16,560 --> 00:26:19,119 Speaker 2: its release. It was all in jeopardy due to the 412 00:26:19,240 --> 00:26:22,920 Speaker 2: album being bootlegged. Sales were about to be drastically affected 413 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:25,639 Speaker 2: in a negative way, and the album blasted out of 414 00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:29,399 Speaker 2: car stereos all over Manhattan weeks before it hit record stores. 415 00:26:30,520 --> 00:26:33,720 Speaker 2: Bootlegs of live shows traded among diehard fans, had a 416 00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:36,200 Speaker 2: long history in the industry, but at the dawn of 417 00:26:36,240 --> 00:26:40,800 Speaker 2: the Internet, bootlegging meant file sharing, not mixtapes. The cost 418 00:26:40,920 --> 00:26:43,680 Speaker 2: of making infinite new copies of a track was zero, 419 00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:47,959 Speaker 2: no digital rights management software, and the sun was setting 420 00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:50,760 Speaker 2: fast on the days of the five time platinum albums 421 00:26:50,840 --> 00:26:53,840 Speaker 2: like Jay's Last One and a bootleg in nineteen ninety 422 00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:56,560 Speaker 2: nine could drop the floor out from under any album 423 00:26:56,640 --> 00:26:59,720 Speaker 2: to the tune of millions of dollars. Every effort was 424 00:26:59,760 --> 00:27:03,480 Speaker 2: made to root out the bootleker. Like Fred Hampton's William O'Neil. 425 00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:07,600 Speaker 2: Jay Z's rat Fuck came from the inside. Ever paranoid 426 00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:11,400 Speaker 2: and distrustful, his hustler instincts told him so, and when 427 00:27:11,480 --> 00:27:14,960 Speaker 2: Jays started leaning on coworkers, a Rockefeller, one name kept 428 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:19,439 Speaker 2: coming back on him. Lance On rivera former business partner 429 00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:23,040 Speaker 2: to the notorious Big On as he was called, had 430 00:27:23,080 --> 00:27:26,960 Speaker 2: produced a track on Jay's forthcoming record and presumably had access. 431 00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:33,879 Speaker 2: December one, nineteen ninety nine, Midtown Manhattan, the Kitcat Club, 432 00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:37,520 Speaker 2: the release party for the heavily anticipated solo debut by 433 00:27:37,640 --> 00:27:41,520 Speaker 2: Q Tip from a tribe called Quest Sean, Puffy Comb's 434 00:27:41,560 --> 00:27:44,200 Speaker 2: Little Kim Busted Rhymes, and the Little Cease all on 435 00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:47,399 Speaker 2: the scene. Jay z rolled up late and deep with 436 00:27:47,480 --> 00:27:51,560 Speaker 2: his entourage behind him. At the bar Lance on Rivera, 437 00:27:52,040 --> 00:27:55,879 Speaker 2: Jay spied him confronted him with the bootlegking allegation, fuck that, 438 00:27:56,160 --> 00:27:58,439 Speaker 2: fuck you. I didn't bootleg shit. Who do you think 439 00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:02,160 Speaker 2: you even talked to? Fuck in my face you. Jay 440 00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:06,920 Speaker 2: headed back to the bar, blinders on rage, pulsing darkness, 441 00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:10,880 Speaker 2: closing in that feeling of being fucked with, losing control, 442 00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:16,800 Speaker 2: being disrespected, dissed and dismissed unacceptable in Jay's previous occupation, 443 00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:19,920 Speaker 2: when you were disrespected, and especially if someone took money 444 00:28:19,960 --> 00:28:22,200 Speaker 2: out of your pocket, you not only stood your ground, 445 00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:24,000 Speaker 2: you let that motherfucker know you were not to be 446 00:28:24,119 --> 00:28:28,680 Speaker 2: fucked with by any means necessary. It was survival, and here, 447 00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:32,960 Speaker 2: right now in the KitKat club, that familiar survival instinct 448 00:28:33,080 --> 00:28:41,560 Speaker 2: kicked in and took over. Jay turned around, beat a 449 00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:44,440 Speaker 2: line straight back to the bottle in one hand, knife 450 00:28:44,480 --> 00:28:46,960 Speaker 2: in the other. He got up on him quick. Witnesses 451 00:28:47,040 --> 00:28:51,000 Speaker 2: say Jay spoke direct to Ala, Michael Corleoni, Delfredo Lance, 452 00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:54,120 Speaker 2: You broke my heart and then smashed the bottle over 453 00:28:54,280 --> 00:28:57,640 Speaker 2: UN's brother's head a quick distraction before plunging the five 454 00:28:57,720 --> 00:29:01,160 Speaker 2: inch blade into uns cut. Fuck you, bootleg boy. Let 455 00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:04,840 Speaker 2: that be a lesson. All hell broke loose in the club. 456 00:29:05,440 --> 00:29:08,400 Speaker 2: Jay Z and his entourage escaped without a rest, but 457 00:29:08,560 --> 00:29:12,320 Speaker 2: words spread fast. It was Jigga who did a payback 458 00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:16,680 Speaker 2: for bootlegging his new record lance On Rivera's life was 459 00:29:17,080 --> 00:29:20,720 Speaker 2: never in serious danger though the stabbing was not life threatening, 460 00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:24,360 Speaker 2: but the threat to jay Z's freedom was now very serious. 461 00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:28,280 Speaker 2: NYPD's rap squad was on the prawl, and by the 462 00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:31,480 Speaker 2: end of the week, jay Z voluntarily turned himself into 463 00:29:31,560 --> 00:29:40,840 Speaker 2: Manhattan's Midtown South precinct. The top rap store is busted. 464 00:29:41,120 --> 00:29:43,680 Speaker 9: Jay Z turned himself into Night and the cops started 465 00:29:43,760 --> 00:29:47,400 Speaker 9: working on his ram sheet, accusing him of a stabbing 466 00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:48,320 Speaker 9: at a trendy party. 467 00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:51,720 Speaker 5: Kimberly Richardson is at Midtown South right now Kimberland No wasnded. 468 00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:54,320 Speaker 7: Just a few hours ago, police here at Midtown South 469 00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:57,960 Speaker 7: arrested Sean Carter, better known as jay Z the Rap Star, 470 00:29:58,240 --> 00:30:02,000 Speaker 7: voluntarily turned himself in here at the precinct earlier this evening. 471 00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:04,640 Speaker 7: Now Carter is being held here in connection with that 472 00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:08,000 Speaker 7: stabbing fight that erupted at the KitKat Club last night. 473 00:30:08,360 --> 00:30:11,120 Speaker 7: But just a few moments ago, Carter's attorney had this 474 00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:13,720 Speaker 7: to say, He's not involved in this. 475 00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:33,840 Speaker 3: He's not involved. I have my faults. You know, I'm 476 00:30:33,880 --> 00:30:40,600 Speaker 3: not an appropriate persons. I have my DOC days also, 477 00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:49,960 Speaker 3: you know I have my doc days. 478 00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:50,280 Speaker 6: Also. 479 00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:50,640 Speaker 2: You know. 480 00:30:57,760 --> 00:30:59,240 Speaker 3: I have my doc days also. 481 00:30:59,360 --> 00:30:59,520 Speaker 4: You know. 482 00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:08,800 Speaker 2: When the smoke cleared, Jay Z was charged with the 483 00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:13,200 Speaker 2: stabbing of Lance on Rivera. Jay pleaded not guilty, gambling 484 00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:17,040 Speaker 2: over a potential fifteen year prison sentence, he lawyered up 485 00:31:17,320 --> 00:31:20,160 Speaker 2: taking a cue from his buddy Sean Puff Daddy Combs, 486 00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:23,040 Speaker 2: who was at the time facing his own indictment for 487 00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:27,080 Speaker 2: gun and bribery charges and staring down fifteen years himself. 488 00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:31,680 Speaker 2: Puffy's attorney was notorious mob lawyer Murray Richmond, who had 489 00:31:31,760 --> 00:31:34,959 Speaker 2: famously defended members of all five New York families at 490 00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:38,800 Speaker 2: different times, most notably John Gotti, and was known for 491 00:31:38,880 --> 00:31:42,680 Speaker 2: his colorful quips to the press, having reportedly said, I 492 00:31:42,840 --> 00:31:47,840 Speaker 2: love murder. Always one less witness to worry about. Murray 493 00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:49,960 Speaker 2: Richmond may have been a smart ass, but he was 494 00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:54,040 Speaker 2: not without smarts. Sitting in jay Z's Trump Tower suite 495 00:31:54,120 --> 00:31:56,360 Speaker 2: ahead of Jay's day in court, he could see the 496 00:31:56,440 --> 00:31:58,800 Speaker 2: writing on the wall. The two of them were playing 497 00:31:58,880 --> 00:32:01,880 Speaker 2: cards and watching car average of Puffy's trial on repeat. 498 00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:04,640 Speaker 2: The local New York channels seemed to be covering at 499 00:32:04,680 --> 00:32:08,360 Speaker 2: twenty four to seven. A block away from Puffy's trial, 500 00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:11,760 Speaker 2: the terrorists accused of truck bombing the World Trade Center 501 00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:15,000 Speaker 2: in nineteen ninety three were also on trial, and the 502 00:32:15,120 --> 00:32:18,120 Speaker 2: press could give a shit. It was all puffey all 503 00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:21,680 Speaker 2: the time. To those as street smart as Murray Richmond 504 00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:25,120 Speaker 2: and Jay Z, it was a clear sign Jay's trial 505 00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:27,440 Speaker 2: would be just as big of a deal as puff Daddy's, 506 00:32:27,640 --> 00:32:30,600 Speaker 2: and thus prosecutors would be twice as aggressive as they 507 00:32:30,680 --> 00:32:33,960 Speaker 2: normally would. And there was only one smart thing to do, 508 00:32:35,560 --> 00:32:40,680 Speaker 2: plead guilty. So that's what jay Z did. After a negotiation, 509 00:32:40,840 --> 00:32:43,600 Speaker 2: he pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor assault charge for the 510 00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:46,880 Speaker 2: stabbing of Lance on Revera. He took a three year 511 00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:50,240 Speaker 2: probation settlement with the state and reportedly settled out of 512 00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:53,280 Speaker 2: court with Rivera for somewhere between five hundred thousand and 513 00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:57,160 Speaker 2: one million dollars. It is unclear with the Lance Rivera 514 00:32:57,280 --> 00:33:00,760 Speaker 2: ever did bootleg Jay's album, but it didn't matter. Jay 515 00:33:00,840 --> 00:33:02,960 Speaker 2: Z has gone on to say that the event was 516 00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:06,720 Speaker 2: in a way a blessing. It straightened him out, caused 517 00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:09,360 Speaker 2: him to change his ways, to leave the street behavior 518 00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:11,960 Speaker 2: behind and incorporate his hustle in a whole new manner 519 00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:15,440 Speaker 2: in a way that would make him fabulously successful in 520 00:33:15,560 --> 00:33:17,920 Speaker 2: the wealthiest Black musician of all time. 521 00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:37,520 Speaker 6: Touched million over the years. Of the years I've been 522 00:33:37,720 --> 00:33:42,280 Speaker 6: thought of the award, the former the former. 523 00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:48,080 Speaker 10: Mccipient, This is the top is the moment of my. 524 00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:51,280 Speaker 6: Little walk on a little walk off site. 525 00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:54,920 Speaker 10: And I've been doing a little wanting a little more 526 00:33:55,160 --> 00:33:58,960 Speaker 10: fighting the day and I did five years ago. That's 527 00:33:59,040 --> 00:34:03,960 Speaker 10: because but I want I can as I had any. 528 00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:10,040 Speaker 6: Had a bad Let me see see, how would you 529 00:34:10,280 --> 00:34:13,040 Speaker 6: like to be remembered well? 530 00:34:13,520 --> 00:34:16,360 Speaker 1: But uh, I would like to be remembered as a 531 00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:18,080 Speaker 1: man who brought a UH. 532 00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:24,320 Speaker 10: Innovation to popul the scene, a peculiar, unique special. I 533 00:34:24,360 --> 00:34:26,600 Speaker 10: would like to be remembered as a man who had 534 00:34:26,719 --> 00:34:30,080 Speaker 10: a wonderful time lived in his life and who had 535 00:34:30,200 --> 00:34:31,759 Speaker 10: a good friends. 536 00:34:31,680 --> 00:34:32,320 Speaker 5: Find family. 537 00:34:32,719 --> 00:34:35,120 Speaker 10: And I don't I don't think I could answer it anymore. 538 00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:56,600 Speaker 4: About h N recalling the Motsan Squarden, New York City. 539 00:34:58,440 --> 00:34:59,320 Speaker 10: And here. 540 00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:13,319 Speaker 4: Stork only on three. 541 00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:42,080 Speaker 2: Jay Z was retiring at thirty three years old. This 542 00:35:42,280 --> 00:35:45,799 Speaker 2: was his last show, Madison Square Garden in New York, 543 00:35:46,200 --> 00:35:48,840 Speaker 2: King of the Concrete Jungle where dreams are made, so 544 00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:52,160 Speaker 2: that empire state of mind going out on top the 545 00:35:52,239 --> 00:35:55,880 Speaker 2: new Sinatra. Jay Z made it there, He made it everywhere. 546 00:35:56,880 --> 00:36:00,600 Speaker 2: Since the stabbing incident, He'd settled down A rumor had 547 00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:03,560 Speaker 2: a Jay had hooked up with pop goddess Beyonce. A 548 00:36:03,680 --> 00:36:06,600 Speaker 2: culture shaking power couple was on the make, and jay 549 00:36:06,640 --> 00:36:10,280 Speaker 2: Z's personal stock was on the rise. He was maneuvering 550 00:36:10,320 --> 00:36:13,359 Speaker 2: a break between him and his Rockefeller business partner, Dame. 551 00:36:13,480 --> 00:36:16,720 Speaker 2: Dash for J was an effort to leave that street 552 00:36:16,800 --> 00:36:20,800 Speaker 2: hustle behind completely. Dame was an old dog. New tricks 553 00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:23,960 Speaker 2: in the boardroom were not an option. The split would 554 00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:27,960 Speaker 2: not be amicable. Jay was in demand, Dame was still 555 00:36:28,040 --> 00:36:31,440 Speaker 2: on that street grind. J was being courted by nearly 556 00:36:31,560 --> 00:36:34,120 Speaker 2: every major record label to take their reins and lead 557 00:36:34,160 --> 00:36:37,160 Speaker 2: them into the twenty first century. It was clear to 558 00:36:37,239 --> 00:36:40,520 Speaker 2: label suits on both coasts that J had an inscrutable 559 00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:44,319 Speaker 2: eye for talent he recruited, collaborated with, and helped launch 560 00:36:44,440 --> 00:36:49,360 Speaker 2: the careers of Pharrell Williams, Kanye West, and others. Of 561 00:36:49,440 --> 00:36:52,320 Speaker 2: all the labels who came calling, def Jam offered the 562 00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:55,480 Speaker 2: most value to jay In addition to being an iconic 563 00:36:55,560 --> 00:36:58,600 Speaker 2: record label with artists who in part provided the musical 564 00:36:58,680 --> 00:37:02,400 Speaker 2: building blocks to jay Z these formative years, ll Cool Jays, 565 00:37:02,440 --> 00:37:06,080 Speaker 2: Slick Rick, Public Enemy, and Beastie Boys. Def Jam was 566 00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:10,400 Speaker 2: also a Rockefeller Records parent company, so def Jam already 567 00:37:10,480 --> 00:37:13,680 Speaker 2: owned fifty percent of Rockefeller, and they also own the 568 00:37:13,800 --> 00:37:17,200 Speaker 2: master recordings to jay Z's records. Otherwise known in the 569 00:37:17,280 --> 00:37:21,920 Speaker 2: music business as the masters and artist masters are a 570 00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:25,680 Speaker 2: potential gold mine of future profits, especially for an artist 571 00:37:25,760 --> 00:37:30,000 Speaker 2: as successful and prolific as JZ. It's extremely rare for 572 00:37:30,160 --> 00:37:33,440 Speaker 2: major label artists to own and maintain control of their masters. 573 00:37:33,920 --> 00:37:36,200 Speaker 2: It's a right that is reserved for the biggest, most 574 00:37:36,239 --> 00:37:40,120 Speaker 2: successful artists of all time, if at all we're talking 575 00:37:40,160 --> 00:37:42,799 Speaker 2: about the Michael Jacksons and Bruce Springsteen's of the world, 576 00:37:43,160 --> 00:37:45,640 Speaker 2: and even then, the right to own one's masters is 577 00:37:45,680 --> 00:37:49,880 Speaker 2: a right that is hard fought and rarely won in 578 00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:52,920 Speaker 2: a business move so cunning it can only be described 579 00:37:52,960 --> 00:37:57,200 Speaker 2: as Michael Corleone esque. Jay Z vanquished Dame Dash and 580 00:37:57,360 --> 00:38:01,600 Speaker 2: seized control of his Masters at the same time. After 581 00:38:01,680 --> 00:38:04,560 Speaker 2: the release of his supposed last album, The Black Album, 582 00:38:04,840 --> 00:38:08,120 Speaker 2: in his retirement show at Madison Square Garden, jay Z 583 00:38:08,320 --> 00:38:11,680 Speaker 2: accepted the position as president and CEO of def Jam 584 00:38:11,800 --> 00:38:15,919 Speaker 2: Recordings in exchange for ownership of his master's reverting to him. 585 00:38:16,719 --> 00:38:19,200 Speaker 2: As part of the deal, Dame Dash would stay on 586 00:38:19,320 --> 00:38:22,359 Speaker 2: to run Rockefeller, but Rockefeller would have to sell its 587 00:38:22,440 --> 00:38:25,640 Speaker 2: remaining fifty percent of the company to deaf Jam. The 588 00:38:25,719 --> 00:38:29,120 Speaker 2: result would mean a cash windfall for Dame Dash, but 589 00:38:29,280 --> 00:38:32,120 Speaker 2: with jay Z now running deaf Jam and def Jam 590 00:38:32,280 --> 00:38:36,160 Speaker 2: now fully owning Rockefeller, in effect, it also meant that 591 00:38:36,320 --> 00:38:39,480 Speaker 2: jay Z not only controlled his Master Recordings, but he 592 00:38:39,640 --> 00:38:43,880 Speaker 2: also controlled his former label, Rockefeller, and by extension, his 593 00:38:44,080 --> 00:38:48,200 Speaker 2: former business partner, the now flush but powerless by comparison 594 00:38:48,280 --> 00:38:52,680 Speaker 2: to Jay head of Rockefeller, Dame Dash. Needless to say, 595 00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:55,520 Speaker 2: this was an arrangement that did not hold for Dame Dash. 596 00:38:55,880 --> 00:38:58,799 Speaker 2: He quickly split to start a different record label, Rock 597 00:38:58,920 --> 00:39:04,960 Speaker 2: for Life. It's been said before, but it's true. Jay 598 00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:07,400 Speaker 2: Z brought his street hustle to the boardroom and it 599 00:39:07,480 --> 00:39:10,720 Speaker 2: didn't stop with def Jam. When hustlers start to stack 600 00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:13,800 Speaker 2: their paper more money than they can spend on cars 601 00:39:13,880 --> 00:39:16,120 Speaker 2: and jewelry and women, the move is to put the 602 00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:18,480 Speaker 2: money back out onto the street and have it make 603 00:39:18,680 --> 00:39:21,879 Speaker 2: more money. For jay Z, the street hustle was over. 604 00:39:22,400 --> 00:39:24,400 Speaker 2: He put his money into the free market with a 605 00:39:24,520 --> 00:39:28,640 Speaker 2: series of brilliant investments. He broke off two million for 606 00:39:28,800 --> 00:39:31,879 Speaker 2: Uber as the ride share company was launching. He then 607 00:39:32,160 --> 00:39:35,480 Speaker 2: unsolicited wired another three million to company founders for a 608 00:39:35,560 --> 00:39:39,719 Speaker 2: bigger steak, and they returned it, but regardless, Jay's investment 609 00:39:39,800 --> 00:39:42,920 Speaker 2: is now worth a reported seventy million, and Jay was 610 00:39:42,960 --> 00:39:46,200 Speaker 2: brought in as part owner of the Brooklyn Nets NBA franchise. 611 00:39:46,600 --> 00:39:49,000 Speaker 2: He invested in the Uber of the air, the private 612 00:39:49,120 --> 00:39:52,759 Speaker 2: jet app Jet Smarter. There's his sports club franchise, the 613 00:39:52,840 --> 00:39:55,600 Speaker 2: forty forty Club, and of course he retains a steak 614 00:39:55,680 --> 00:39:58,320 Speaker 2: in rock Aware after selling a majority of the company 615 00:39:58,400 --> 00:40:01,000 Speaker 2: to Iconics for two hundred and f four million dollars. 616 00:40:02,080 --> 00:40:04,759 Speaker 2: In addition to his many real estate holdings, jay Z's 617 00:40:04,920 --> 00:40:08,400 Speaker 2: art collection consists of picassos and basquettes, and, in a 618 00:40:08,520 --> 00:40:11,239 Speaker 2: move rivaling the cunning of the deaf Jam deal, jay 619 00:40:11,320 --> 00:40:14,520 Speaker 2: Z purchased a majority stake in the streaming service Title 620 00:40:14,880 --> 00:40:17,920 Speaker 2: in order to control the distribution of his master recordings, 621 00:40:18,239 --> 00:40:20,360 Speaker 2: which has in turn allowed him to make record breaking 622 00:40:20,440 --> 00:40:23,719 Speaker 2: marketing deals for his current recordings. Oh Yeah, he unretired 623 00:40:23,760 --> 00:40:28,239 Speaker 2: from making music again with Megabrand, Samsung in Sprint. After 624 00:40:28,360 --> 00:40:31,760 Speaker 2: Jay's tenure at def Jam, he started rock Nation, another 625 00:40:31,880 --> 00:40:35,120 Speaker 2: record label, a music management company, and a sports agency 626 00:40:35,320 --> 00:40:38,120 Speaker 2: all rolled into one to steer the careers and pull 627 00:40:38,200 --> 00:40:40,680 Speaker 2: in ten to twenty percent in fees from artists and 628 00:40:40,840 --> 00:40:44,480 Speaker 2: athletes like Rhianna, Nick Jonas, and Domakin Sioux. In the 629 00:40:44,560 --> 00:40:48,960 Speaker 2: Beta Boy himself, Kyrie Irving, along with Bacardi, jay Z 630 00:40:49,160 --> 00:40:51,960 Speaker 2: is the co owner of the Kangnac company Duce, and 631 00:40:52,080 --> 00:40:55,440 Speaker 2: to date, his smartest investment was his purchase of the 632 00:40:55,560 --> 00:40:59,680 Speaker 2: champagne company armand Dabrignac for an estimated two hundred million, 633 00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:02,840 Speaker 2: which has given him a return of roughly three hundred million, 634 00:41:03,080 --> 00:41:06,200 Speaker 2: which is thirty percent of Jay's portfolio and a move 635 00:41:06,280 --> 00:41:11,279 Speaker 2: that pushed his net worth to more than a billion dollars. Remarkably, 636 00:41:11,640 --> 00:41:14,960 Speaker 2: with all of his music success, profits from his recordings 637 00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:18,400 Speaker 2: and publishing only amount to about seventy million dollars. The 638 00:41:18,520 --> 00:41:22,279 Speaker 2: totality of his financial success has elevated jay Z far 639 00:41:22,440 --> 00:41:25,600 Speaker 2: beyond the music industry. The self made man from the 640 00:41:25,680 --> 00:41:30,120 Speaker 2: Marci Housing Projects now rubs elbows with Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, and, 641 00:41:30,239 --> 00:41:37,080 Speaker 2: perhaps most famously, Barack Obama ambition. Absolutely talent, without a doubt. 642 00:41:37,760 --> 00:41:42,080 Speaker 2: As a rapper, jay Z is the goat. He's Tom Brady, Air, Jordan, 643 00:41:42,280 --> 00:41:46,040 Speaker 2: Mike Tyson, Jimmy Hendrix, and Frank Sinatra all rolled into one. 644 00:41:46,600 --> 00:41:48,960 Speaker 2: And not just because he has more number one albums 645 00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:52,720 Speaker 2: than Elvis Presley or Michael Jackson or Prince or Elton 646 00:41:52,800 --> 00:41:56,160 Speaker 2: John or Madonna or anyone ever in the history of music, 647 00:41:56,200 --> 00:41:58,600 Speaker 2: with the exception of the Beatles, and not because of 648 00:41:58,640 --> 00:42:03,600 Speaker 2: his unmistakable flow, a technique uniquely his immediately recognizable as 649 00:42:03,719 --> 00:42:08,040 Speaker 2: jay Z. It's because of his hustle, a work ethic 650 00:42:08,200 --> 00:42:11,480 Speaker 2: learned on the corner selling crack, reciting rhymes in his 651 00:42:11,600 --> 00:42:15,560 Speaker 2: head over and over Jehovah, so focused that to this 652 00:42:15,800 --> 00:42:19,000 Speaker 2: day the man does not actually write his lyrics on paper. 653 00:42:19,440 --> 00:42:22,680 Speaker 2: It's all flow, all the time. For jay Z. The 654 00:42:22,760 --> 00:42:25,800 Speaker 2: hustle wasn't just a means of survival in Brooklyn's Marcia 655 00:42:25,840 --> 00:42:30,480 Speaker 2: Housing projects. It was a lifelong learning experience, an evolution. 656 00:42:31,400 --> 00:42:33,920 Speaker 2: Jay Z was smart enough to use the street to 657 00:42:34,040 --> 00:42:37,160 Speaker 2: propel him out of his circumstance, but once that street 658 00:42:37,239 --> 00:42:39,880 Speaker 2: hustle threatened to tear him down with his violent approach 659 00:42:39,960 --> 00:42:43,640 Speaker 2: to conflict resolution, jay Z was smart enough to recognize 660 00:42:43,840 --> 00:42:46,800 Speaker 2: that a new hustle was needed to survive, to thrive, 661 00:42:47,160 --> 00:42:52,439 Speaker 2: because real hustlers never die, they just multiplied. This isn't 662 00:42:52,440 --> 00:42:55,200 Speaker 2: a new rule, this is ancient wisdom of the Alpha 663 00:42:55,480 --> 00:42:59,000 Speaker 2: of the ascendant ones. Jay Z's illumination is no longer 664 00:42:59,080 --> 00:43:02,320 Speaker 2: a mystery, and for some, for those who hold the keys, 665 00:43:02,640 --> 00:43:05,359 Speaker 2: who know the code to the Magna Carta, the map 666 00:43:05,480 --> 00:43:10,560 Speaker 2: to the Holy Grail, that is a disgrace. I'm Jake 667 00:43:10,640 --> 00:43:13,600 Speaker 2: Brennan and this is Disgraceland. 668 00:43:26,920 --> 00:43:30,800 Speaker 9: Disgraceland was created by Yours Truly and is produced in partnership. 669 00:43:30,360 --> 00:43:33,399 Speaker 2: With Double Elvis. Credits for this episode can be found 670 00:43:33,480 --> 00:43:37,000 Speaker 2: on the show notes page at disgracelampod dot com. 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