‘I Learnt My Business Skills From Selling Crack Cocaine’ – Jay-Z Finally Reveals

Hip hop mogul Jay Z , one of the richest men in the music industry, has admitted he got his business skills from drug dealing activities as
he graced the cover of Vanity Fair magazine .

He said selling crack cocaine on the streets of New York during the 1980s gave him the skills to succeed later in life.
‘I know about budgets. I was a drug dealer,’ said the 43 year old who is married to singer Beyonce. ‘To be in a drug deal, you need to know what you can spend, what you need to re-up.’
Jay Z has never hidden his past as a drug dealer before he found fame and fortune as a music producer.
He told Vanity Fair magazine he was part of the crack cocaine epidemic that blighted the streets of New York and was responsible for hundreds of deaths. Jay Z said he now regrets being part of the
drug problem but said at the time he was only thinking about the money.
‘Not until later, when I realised the effects on the community,’ he said. ‘I started looking at the community on the whole, but in the
beginning no. ‘I was thinking about surviving. I was thinking about improving my situation. I was thinking about buying clothes.’