Forget The Apprentice, Jay-Z says he
learned all he needed to know
about being an entrepreneur during
his drug-dealing days.
The rapper revealed his do-or-die
deals on the streets allowed him to
master the art of a quick-exit
strategy. However, the star now
admits his conscience has crept up
on him after fuelling addicts to make
ends meet.
‘I know about budgets. I was a drug
dealer,’ said the hip hop
mogul after
he doled out the drugs on the
streets of Brooklyn in
the 80s.
‘To be in a drug deal, you need to
know what you can spend, what you
need to re-up,’ said the 43-year-old,
who admitted he toyed with the
idea of becoming a barber or
working in a carwash before the lure
of dealing snared him.
‘You have to have an exit strategy,
because your window [for dealing
drugs] is very small. You’re going to
get locked up or you’re going to
die.’
Estimated to be worth an estimated
£300million today, the 99 Problems
singer admitted he didn’t care at
the time about whose life he ruined
as he started out making his fortune
by selling on the streets.
‘Not until later, when I realised the
effects on the community, I started
looking at the community on the
whole. But in the beginning, no,’ he
told Vanity Fair.
‘I was thinking about surviving. I
was thinking about improving my
situation. I was thinking about
buying clothes.’
- Culled from metro.co.uk
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