On the Jay show(s)

It is not the least bit surprising that — growing up when and where I grew up — I would be a huge fan of Jay-Z…or, sorry, JAŸ-Z. Hot97 and MTV were mainlining me a steady stream of S. Carter content.

Of course, I wasn’t day-one. Reasonable Doubt’s street sophistication wasn’t exactly catching my 12-year-old ears when it was released in June 1996. I was …