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May 4, 2008
Problem child was destined to succeed
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Barry Egan
TALK about booty. And I'm not just referring to his partner's derriere. Jay-Z's estimated worth is more than $420m.The man from the Marcy housing project in the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn -- whose father abandoned him when he was 12 -- is one of the owners of basketball team, the Nets.
Last year architect Frank Gehry, who had submitted plans for the Atlantic Yards in Brooklyn, where the Nets will move from their base in New Jersey, sent Jay a stack of James Joyce novels.
Because, he said, listening to tapes of Joyce reading Finnegan's Wake reminded Gehry of hip-hop. Presumably when Jay-Z was walking past the newsstands in Las Vegas last weekend he was effecting a face of bafflement like he was perusing a copy of Joyce's easy-read for the first time.
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NoLandGrab: Pop quiz: James Joyce, or Bruce Ratner op-ed: "Phall if you but will, rise you must: and none so soon either shall the pahrce for the nunce come to a setdown secular phoenish."
Posted by amy at May 4, 2008 10:33 AM