Jay's actually far from fake. He's had dudes that don't even fukk with him vouch for his hustling days, not to mention all those videos before he got signed were funded by him, Dame, and Biggs. I'm sure he does embellish, just like every other rapper, musician, writer, shyt just about everyone who's ever lived that has told any kind of story does.
Plus he still stands by all his real homies growing up and from the Roc days, emphasis on REAL. I know he still shows a lot of love to Young Chris and Free the only ones who never dissed him. He also puts together shows for them on the low, well he put them in contact with Live Nation to organize the shows for them, and had Live Nation set up that State Prop reunion tour, which eventually did shows all around the country. He had them out for the Tidal B-Side concert. And he hooked Chris up with Puff earlier this year to ghostwrite for him. He still takes care of Bleek, Ty Ty, and Emory to name a few, not to mention all the charitable shyt he does on the low.
It's all scorned ex business partners and workers that say he's fake, but they completely overlook all the shyt they did to him and just expect him to treat them as charity cases and keep feeding them cause he's still getting richer.
I know a bunch of dudes in the Stagehands union in Philly who worked a bunch of his concerts here, and everyone of them from all the different shows said he comes around while they're setting up and chops it up with them, thanks them, has a good lunch set up for the whole crew. He's def got an arrogant prick side to him, but he's not this evil soulless dude that a lot of people make him out to be, I've heard first hand stories about him doing a lot of good, and a good bit of them are from people who didn't like him.
to me... guarantee you, none of it woulda stuck, and by the time he was off Death Row, he'd have been cool with half the nikkas he was callin' out. It's only because he died that y'all think that shyt was real and legit.
