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2. Spanish Jose Put Him On

According to Jay, he was introduced to the crack game by a local bodega owner named Spanish Jose. Jose’s family owned the bodega, and one day he pulled Jay and a friend aside to compliment them on how they carried themselves.

Soon, Jay was running drugs from Brooklyn to Trenton, New Jersey, bringing home $2,000 a day.

Now, that’s a paper route.

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