Jay-Z reflects on his days as a drug dealer
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According to a revealing new interview in People magazine, Jay-Z reveals that it wasn't drugs he was addicted to, it was the job selling them.
"You become addicted to the feeling, the uncertainty and adrenaline and danger of that lifestyle," Jay-Z, the now iconic rapper but former drug dealer, tells Oprah Winfrey in the new O Magazine.
Jay-Z, was 13 when he first sold crack in his hometown of Brooklyn.
While dealing drugs, Jay-Z was eventually shot - an event that led to a renewed outlook on life and a dramatic shift in his goals and priorities.
Jay-Z says he was saved by "divine intervention, and nobody knowing how to shoot."
Prior to turning his life around, Jay-Z tells Oprah that living life as a drug dealer didn't seem unusual, because no one who had ever accomplished something from his neighborhood returned to "share their wisdom."
"If anyone made it, you never knew it," Jay-Z says. "That's why I've always said that if I became successful, I'd come back here, grab somebody, and show him how it can be done."
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