#238 Jay Z: Decoded
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It was the seventies. And heroin was still heavy in the hood. Unpredictability was one of the things that we counted on. Like the day when I wandered up to something I'd never seen before. A cypher.
But I wouldn't have called it that. No one would have back then. I shouldered my way through the crowd towards the middle. It felt like gravity pulling me into that swirl of kids. No bullshit.
Like a planet. Being pulled into orbit by a star. His name was Slate. And he was a kid I used to see around the neighborhood. An older kid
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