By the way, I'm not from New York, someone gonna have to explain to me who this Big Ross guy is. Not familiar with his story...
As far as Hov though, look I think it's well established he was paper chasing. I think the part that gets debated is exactly how high up the food chain he was, which is natural----->I can tell you alota old heads from that era put extra zeros and commas on what they were holding. The 80s got glamorized and exaggerated like a muhfukka to the later generations who either weren't around or the people who were around but weren't a part of it, and the 90s also gets done this way...
We all know alota people were eating, but cats do put extra on it because nikkas always wanna hype they own generation. Other cats from they era gonna do the same and people from later generations weren't around to challenge them on it...
I'm a big time Jay Z Stan. I'll take him at his own words on two different excerpts from verses:
"I came into this muhfukka 100 grand strong/9 to be exact, from grinding g packs"...
"So don't believe everything your earlobe captures, it's mostly backwards/unless it happens to be as accurate as me/and everything said in song you happen to see, then actually/believe half of what you see/none of what you heard, even if spat by me"...
