JAY-Z made a slick reference to Friday actor Faizon Love as part of Pusha T’s “Neck & Wrist” single that dropped earlier this month. Love had shed doubt on Hov’s drug dealing past in a 2020 interview with VladTV, and the billionaire Hip Hop mogul apparently didn’t forget about it.
“The phase I’m on, love, I wouldn’t believe it either,” he raps on the Pharrell-produced track. “I’d be like, ‘JAY-Z’s a cheater,’/I wouldn’t listen to reason either.”
During another sit-down with VladTV, Love was asked about the line and had a few comments for anyone thinking JAY-Z was dissing him.
“I didn’t get it at first, ’cause it’s some rap thing, and it’s not clear,” he said. “First of all I’m not a rapper. I have no bars, at all … I listened to it. He didn’t really diss me.”
He added, “Back at you, Love. We all love. It’s all love now, you know what I’m saying? I think I ruffled some feathers.”
Faizon Love has consistently questioned JAY-Z’s street credibility. Speaking to Vlad at the time, Love suggested he lied in his music and was never a “drug lord” like he described. He also referred to the Roc-A-Fella mogul as a “puppet” in the drug game.
“JAY-Z creates this drug dealing drug lord, I’ma drug dealer, I’ma drug lord,” he said at the time. “These kids are like, ‘We gotta do it, too.’ Not knowing that this is all made up shit … That’s why I was like, Ohh, this n-gga is a puppet. Can you imagine JAY-Z fighting somebody in the streets? Somebody slap him, taking his cocaine, what he gon’ do?”
JAY-Z Responds To Faizon Love's Fake 'Drug Lord' Claims On Pusha T's 'Neck & Wrist'
Cam’ron came to Hov’s defense and essentially told Love to keep JAY-Z’s name out of his mouth with an Instagram post.
“I know me and Hov haven’t had the best relationship (publicly) but Faizon don’t know what the fuck he’s talking bout. whether legally or illegally n-ggas got to it,” he wrote in the caption. “Faizon #UwasntThere #iwasthere for some it #HusltersRespectHustlers #UwasSellingNicksOutTheIceCreamTruck.”
He clearly did diss u..what a delusional person lol.
really? what’s the diss? there’s nothing disrespectful that Jay said lol
These interviews are embarrassing for dude. Straight up embarrassing.
I doubt Hov was a drug kingpin. It’s not many kingpins that came outta that era without seeing jail or the grave. I do think Hov got busy though. You don’t get to where he’s at in life without a certain amount of experience/finesse. I’m pretty sure the foundation of which was laid during his time in the game.
The only ones I believe are Dehaven who says he put Hov on; Jaz-O who put him on the rap shiz, and Biggs who financed the Roc startup. Yet Hov was not any kind of king-pin but he did get down; having said that Hov may have snitched because everyone who was part of the set’ caught an indictment except Hov, people above him and people below him caught indictments except him hmm…
This discussion is embarassing. Men arguing about street cred and drug sales from 25 years ago.
Hardly an argument. Seems one sided to me. I wonder why?
Where did the roc start up capital come from? Wasn’t government grants. Cost money to get in the studio in the early 90s plus pay for fox and big features. But Faiz has a point in that hov made his money off music not drugs. He continued on even in the last 10 years acting like his money could be illegal and some people use that as an inspiration – I don’t blame faizon love for pointing that out. But that’s why hov was just playing really just showing love with those bars imo