# VIDEO: Dehaven Irby Final.mov

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Yo what's good evil streets fam you know the deal we back at it again shout out to all my members and subscribers for tuning in on the daily y'all the foundation of this channel's rise and success anybody trying to promote their music brand or business hit me at evil streets media at gmail.com we can work something out. Much love for all the cash app donations and anybody wanting to support the channel can do that at evil streets tv on cash app all donations go right back into the channel Aight y'all let's dive into this gangster shit I'm talking about the drug hustle for 14 years 14 year drug hustle right 14 year drug hustle and still going who deserves the matter with freedom is my accountant If you wanna keep it a buck you be a drug dealer you still think you be a drug dealer that's just real was it yeah it's a trembling rush man anybody really anybody who's ever been really in the thick of the game it's a dream rush that it's addicting that's why people it's it's it's a very dangerous field yeah job occupation but the rush that you get like because it's final it's finally you could be sitting up in the plug's crib and the whole thing you raided and they're not going to get tough and I got it you just start shooting you know it's just a rush here with the whole was your favorite part about it when you like count the bread you're like cutting the shit up what you like did you like serving motherfuckers see the adrenaline like it's the life it's the whole thing it's the whole just being in the game like it's almost like being a rapper you know because you're a star and with you know whatever town you want you to start at because you're the big guy in town Sean Carter better known as jigga jhova or simply Jay-Z today the name echoes as one of the greatest emcees ever the sharp businessman and the husband of the baddest chick in the game but before all the fame riches and accolades Jay-Z was just a kid from Brooklyn's Marcy projects come for long with a dream like so many kids from the projects his story kicks off the same a solid student doing good until his pops walked out left with a hole young Jay turned to the streets and his path into the hustle started your father who do you most resemble your mother my father look really just like him that's why I broke my heart you know because as a kid you know you look at your father that's like a superhero you know no one can beat your dad right and um so to have that that that person that I looked at uh looked up to most in the world remove that of your life is like a traumatic experience you know so you got other male role models like drug dealers or and that's what happened so after that then you start but you know in the street and there's no one else the guide you through that you know through the maze that is life inside those projects um except for drug dealers so looking up to them and that's how I got into the street right now a pre-teen no father in the crib drugs all around the projects it made it easy for Jay-Z to get into the drug game but how did you get into business well it's fairly easy you know it's growing up during that time we have to put the time we have to remember the time we're talking about we're talking about Reagan diamonds we're talking about where crack cocaine was everywhere it just engulfed everywhere you smelt it in the hallways you sort of little empty vials you know and uh on the curb float and buy in the water you know it was it was just everywhere so it wasn't difficult it was one conversation it was my friend who was my age went to do some either someone else and we who was maybe two years older than us and we had a conversation and you know it was almost like a job interview yeah tell me about that and he was like you know you got to be serious about this you can't you know be playing about this this is like serious you know you got to not get high you're gonna supply that friend he mentioned that put him on was De Haven Irby didn't De Haven introduce me to the game Spanish holes they introduced me to Kane I'm a hustler now I'm a Jay here angle live man the gangs used to have mad Marcy because I don't go to the park there's jaymas in that line seeing Jay in the building I'm like yo you go to the 168 school like yeah I was like yeah I know I see this new going offense all the time lined up right until I told him come to school walk with me oh no I ain't fucking him unless to yo come to school walking me and shit fuck this was third fourth grade up in this this was it it's for starting it all right here I really met Jay Jay-Z and his best friend were more like brothers than anything they were inseparable doing everything together even running a paper route but soon that paper route shifted gears and became a drug route as they grew older and the hustle changed Jay's love for music never took a backseat though one crucial moment came during a talent show in Queens where he performed in front of none other than LL Cool J one of the judges that night went to a salad showing Jay did a battle up there and shit and LL was there and L was like yo you nice shorty like he gave Jay his flowers then and I'm saying this is before anything you know saying really Jay won that but they just gave it to a Queens dude anyway at that concert I met some girls and shit back then and one of the girls I don't know if her father was like a big time dealer she came around and I found the whole bunch of drugs and I said yo Jay we gonna we gonna move this so that's when he came in like when he came and I showed him the same thing we just was spending money shopping every day no not thinking when we spend this money we're gonna get more I ain't have none of those stories you know what I'm saying I'm just like yo we are fouthing shit Jay let's get rid of this shit when I finally ran out of drugs I'm like yo I don't know what to do next and shit and I was going to the store and shit and one of the guys from the neighborhood that raised me and shit when in Spanish guys named Spanish Jose he pulled me to the side and was like look you know I'm saying I hear you made a name you making noise in here without have without like to you know work with him and once Spanish Jose man I never look back life in the streets brought violence and crime and Jay's he wasn't a stranger to either in one intense moment he accused his older brother Eric of stealing from him leading to a heated confrontation where Jay shot him in the shoulder the gun he used belonged to his mentor and the one who first showed him the ropes in the rap game jazz oh the originator they he shot his older brother in the shoulder for stealing his jewelry he was 12 years old here some lyrics you write about your brother he said saw the devil in your eyes high off more than weed confused I just closed my young eyes and squeezed what a sound open my eyes just in time to see a stumbling to the ground yeah I went to a convoy talk about that on TV that's it's not cool it was my gun it's so that's your gun yeah let me clear that up go ahead he didn't have the gun so he could go and shoot his brother you know it was just a it was a thing back then you know if you got you got some arms you got you got guns or you got a gun you know that was the sign of a brotherhood you know with the with the street to another incident went down in Marcy where Jay-Z was robbed at gunpoint for his chain De Haven jays close friend nearly lost his life trying to get that chain back I believe jazz old tie tie all of them was dead um they come knock on the door and tell me about Jay get raw and like what well from who do who would do this who would come in the projects and do that you know I'm saying unless it's somebody in the project but come that find I was a guy a bunch of guys from some of the projects that I grew up with because that's where I used to live before I went to Marcy so I'm like I go get you back we all go back up there and when we go in there and we get in we get in Tomkins projects get we get surrounded that shit a group of guys surround us and they buy god guns but us one of the guys come out and be like yo um who you looking for I'm like y'all let me talk to him because I knew one of the faces of yo let me talk to him so my god my homeboy come over that I grew up with that I think is everything is all right so first thing he says yo why they here you know Jazz and tie tie and I'm like they just came up here with me and shit man tell him to go back so I said them yo y'all go back and shit you know what I'm saying they turn around Jay and I'm turning around I'm the only one near and now I'm surrounded by them and get him saying and they all got guns and I'm looking at one of two of them like yo bro we we was in third grade together bro we we in second grade together and yo this shit ain't right man this shit ain't right you know what I'm saying like I got respect for you bro we grew up together so they was like yeah we respect you too man but you know the code out here the code is we gotta rob you you know what I'm saying they took my chain and they sent me back but yo that moment right there that moment taught me a valuable lesson about the streets you can't trust nobody out here not even the people you grew up with the hustle was getting more intense and more dangerous and it became clear to everybody around them that this life wasn't no joke

De Haven Irby was the kind of dude who moved different in them streets though he wasn't just chasing money he was loyal to his crew to a fault De Haven and Jay they was tight man they was like two peas in a pod running Marcy like they owned the whole joint but that loyalty that bond it came with a price when you moving how they was moving you're gonna make enemies you're gonna step on toes and you're gonna have situations that get out of hand and that's exactly what happened De Haven found himself in situations where the streets demanded blood and respect the kind of choices that change your whole trajectory for real for real

Throughout the '80s and early '90s the crack epidemic was tearing through Brooklyn like a hurricane and dudes like De Haven and Jay-Z they was right in the middle of it all making moves making money but also leaving bodies in their wake the game they chose was unforgiving it don't care about your age it don't care about your potential it only cares about one thing survival De Haven understood that better than most he was street smart he was quick thinking and he was willing to do whatever it took to survive and thrive in them concrete jungles

But here's the thing about the streets son the streets don't love nobody the money don't care the power don't last forever and the respect you earn off the fear you create that shit catches up with you eventually De Haven Irby was a legend in Marcy Projects a real street figure who shaped the early days of one of hip-hop's greatest icons but his legacy is one that reminds us all that there's always a price to pay when you walk that road the road of fast money quick power and deadly consequences De Haven represented a generation that was caught between poverty and opportunity between survival and ambition and while Jay-Z would go on to transcend the streets and build an empire that changed the music industry forever De Haven's story serves as a sobering reminder that not everybody makes it out that some of the realest ones the ones who paved the way they get lost in the shuffle forgotten by history but their impact their influence that lives on forever in the streets of Brooklyn in the hearts of those who knew them and in the echoes of a life lived on the edge between life and death De Haven Irby may not have diamonds or Grammy Awards but he got something more valuable than that he got a place in the foundation of hip-hop culture a testament to the price of the game and the cost of chasing dreams when you got nothing but concrete and survival in front of you rest easy to all the real ones who didn't make it out the streets remember y'all.