Jay Z’s tastes have changed since he first burst onto the Hip Hop scene in the mid-’90s.
Fans who have kept up with the rapper since Reasonable Doubt have likely noticed the difference between the brands he name dropped in 1996 and the luxuries he enjoys today as a half-a-billion dollar man.
To celebrate the limited edition vinyl release of Magna Carta… Holy Grail, Medium has attempted to track Jay Z’s spending habits from 1995 to 2013.
The site used the Brooklyn-bred tastemaker‘s song lyrics to craft an entertaining and informative infographic with the data they compiled.
According to the statistics, Jay Z is spending more money on cars, travel, drinks, and miscellaneous items today than he was in ’95. But, his affinity for fancy watches seems to have peaked sometime around his debut.
Hov goes from rapping about copping $30,000 BMWs on Reasonable Doubt to $3 million Buggati’s on Magna Carta.
His preference in beverages has also evolved throughout the years. Now that Jay has acquired the luxury champagne label Ace of Spades, he hasn’t mentioned one of his former favorites, Cristal, as much.
Perhaps the biggest documented increase in purchases is in the miscellaneous category. Jay’s newfound love of art appears to be rather costly.
Sure, Jigga raps about wearing $245 Versace jeans and having a big screen Magnavox and VCR on Reasonable Doubt, but compared to the $4 million Basquiat paintings and $45 million Mark Roth artwork he mentions on Magna Carta, Jay’s previous purchases seem frugal.
Check out the full breakdown below:
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It’s never enough for some of these big business minded individuals. But hopefully he’s doing some good and supporting causes with all that money, instead of being selfish and just blowing it on pointless artwork. As Melachi from Group Home said on the track Supa Star… “You can’t take money with cha when you die”
Totally unrelated to this story but another great quote from Melachi on Supa Star is “always love ya motha cus ya never get another”
Lol@ that shitty graph,smh.
this article wreaks of some 10th grader’s homework
Lmaoooooo
Who the fuck is that sad to compile this shit? Charting what another man owns smh.. Btw anyone willing to pay millions or even thousands of dollars on paintings is a SUCKA. Art is the most over inflated priced thing on earth
Damn, this matters why?
Go check out what the 4.5mill painting actually looks like.. It ain’t worth 1.00. Looks like a child’s painting. I really don’t understand.. Because there is nothing to understand
This just proves that Jay’s rapping about bullshit has increased since the beginning, is all.
At least now I can reference a terrible looking graph to visually prove what I’ve been saying for years.
No, it just means that Jay has always been what rap is all about.
Jay has always been about what *bullshit* rap has been about.
Money, cars, money, expensive artwork, money, watch, money, foreign country, money, clothes, money, drugs, money = boring.
the n!ggers in Columbus, OH are fake Bloods and let Whites call them n!gger instead of n!gg@ stupid fucks