A speaker questions why Jay-Z is praised despite his past selling drugs in the projects, arguing that fame and success don't erase the harm he caused to families and communities. The speaker contends that choosing shortcuts built on hurting others carries inevitable consequences that praise ignores.
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Man grew up in the projects and sold dope. Dope to families. This is somebody that y'all praise. This is who y'all gave a career to. So when these people, when y'all make them famous and everything like that, and then when they, they real— like, the colors was already there. Their colors was already showing from the moment they was serving dope. Yeah, I had, I had to feed my family. I had to do this. A lot of us had to eat, and a lot of us chose to go clock in at the Piggly Wiggly versus on the street. But see, when a person is choosing to take the shortcut to get to where he has to go and is built on taking people down, taking families down. There's no surprise as to why things are happening the way that they're happening to him and his little family, okay?