Iconic artist and business mogul, Jay Z was in Hartford, Connecticut back in March and while dressed in a very classy suit he dropped some knowledge and fire at the same time and the internet is loving him for it.
Check out the verse in the clip and read along to what we think he was saying below:
“What he was doing
Make it out the hood to keep us trapped,
They Red Lining the property declines if you live by black,
I don’t think they hear me though.
Ok.
Gentrify ya’ own hood ‘fore these people do it,
Claim imminent domain and have yo people moving,
That’s a small glimpse into what Nipsey was doing,
Anybody still confused as to what he was doing.
The neighborhood designed to keep up trapped,
They red line us so property declines if you live by blacks,
They depress the asset and take the property back,
It’s a ruthless but a genius plan in fact
So Now we fighting over scraps.
Crabs in the barrel, but crabs don’t belong in the barrel they ain’t never tell us that.
So in the barrel we gon act like we act.
We can easily get out the barrel if we stand on each others back,
Whoever gets on top as long as they stay attached,
They can pull everybody out I was doing just that.
I told neighborhood Nip to stay close,
Put a hundred million dollars on your schedule lay low,
Tell ya team to be on point in the places that they go,
I never dreamed he’d get killed in the place that he called home.
How we gonna build in power if we kill the source?
But yall like to run off on the plug so of course.
That ain’t lit that’s a means to an end,
Me and my team was playing the plug and had a plan.
Sometimes we used to only make a thousand a joint
That aint no money, but that aint they point.
So those 92 bricks was only $92,000.
So yall can close ya mouth it ain’t nothing for y’all to woooooow!
But it is something to study,
We was chasing our goals not chasing money,
Niggas chasing hoes we find that funny,
I pull up in the Rolls that hoe gon want me.
But I don’t want no hoe I want a wife,
somebody to bounce these ideas off at night.
I be going to sleep hoping BIG visit me,
That young king had a lot of jewels to spilt with me,
and we ain’t gotta leave the hood physically,
but we gotta leave that shit mentally.
Somehow…
Some way…”
