Jay Z performed back-to-back TIDAL X shows this weekend (May 16, 17) with the same backdrop – an Interstate 95 South sign.
DJ Clark Kent took to Instagram to explain that 95 was the interstate that Jay Z would use to transport drugs during his dealing days.
“Before I could search, find, and convince Jay to get to the music, this was the way, the road, the route to the paper,” DJ Clark Kent wrote in an Instagram post Sunday (May 17), in regard to the I-95 backdrop.
DJ Clark Kent also says that one of Jay Z’s early songs was called “95 South.”
Jay Z claimed that he sold drugs before his rap career took off during an interview with Vanity Fair.
In 1996, he mentioned the road on “Feelin’ It,” a cut from his debut album, Reasonable Doubt.
“Ya feelin’ it?” he rhymes on the track. “To all the girls that bought a girdle to conceal my bricks / No doubt, they can vouch, my life is real as shit / 95 South and papi on The Hill and shit / And all the towns like Cambridge that I killed with shit.”
During his TIDAL performances, Jay Z also dissed Spotify and YouTube in a “B-Sides” freestyle and payed tribute to recently fallen New York rapper Chinx.
DJ Clark Kent’s Instagram post is as follows:
For more on Jay Z, watch the following DX Daily:
he was a small time hand to hand dealer who worked for the big guys
Jay was never small time do some research before making sideways comments on things you don’t know.
how many big time drug dealers do you know that switch career paths to become rappers? omg.
y’all even debating 20 yr old street/project sh!t with some internet white kid who calls himself “wanker” is a huge L for you. you think that little goofball knows anything about the 80’s-90s Marcy/Bed Stuy? lol stop it and let that little boy expose himself as a clown daily.
the word is ‘paid’, not PAYED’, l.o.l. elementary spelling mistake!
People are still debating if Jay was deep in the dope game. Give it up bro. Dude’s been getting rap money for over 20 years now. 99% of the cats commenting ain’t sold nothing or had a 9-5 for 20+ years.
this dude is a disgrace. dope game = human shame.
he is still making referencing to drug dealing????
what’s disgraceful is you even thinking that every rich person made their money honestly
djclarkkent shame on you .. glorifying the dope .. just so you can get some attention …please ..