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December 30, 2005
The Book of Jay
Hip-hop's MVP wants to become the game's greatest record exec
Hip-hop mogul Jay-Z is also a minority owner (less than 2%) in the NJ Nets and frontman for the ownership group.
This meeting of the minds, excerpted below, is from this month's Rolling Stone cover story:
On the table sits a two-foot-tall scale model of architect Frank Gehry's plan for the Atlantic Yards in Brooklyn, where the Nets will move from New Jersey in 2008, with little trees and shrubs planted around the wooden buildings and acrylic skyscrapers shaped in the forms that Gehry will create. Not long after they first met, Gehry sent Jay a stack of James Joyce novels, because listening to tapes of Joyce reading Finnegans Wake reminded Gehry of hip-hop. Jay says he reads only nonfiction.
NoLandGrab: It's a beautiful thing when two geniuses can bridge the cultural divide over something as trivial as the most expensive arena in history ($555.3 million at last count).
Posted by lumi at December 30, 2005 6:49 AM