‘Betrayal Is Jay-Z’s M.O.’: Jay-Z’s Ex-Best Friend Who Took a Bullet for Him Recalls the ‘Sucker Sh-t’ Rapper Pulled Amid Long List of Betrayals

DeHaven Irby, a former drug dealer and ex-best friend of Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter, is shelling out details about his time with the budding rapper coming up in Brooklyn’s Marcy Houses projects and what led to the demise of their friendship. Irby and Carter grew up in the same building, where they met as sixth graders and became close. Irby previously has& proclaimed& that his life as a drug dealer inspired much of Jay-Z’s raps, even claiming that although he taught Jay-Z how to “nickel and dime,” he was the one who did all the work and focused on keeping the future-Roc-A-Fella frontman out of the streets. DeHaven and Jay-Z shared clothes, money, and women. Irby even made Jay-Z his daughter’s godfather. Everything seemed great until, according to Irby, who is now 55 years old, things between him and his former friend soured when Irby was indicted on federal drug conspiracy charges in 1998. View this post on Instagram A post shared by @__valtown “During my trial, [he looked] at me in my face telling me, ‘Yo, don’t worry about it, bro. I got you.’ And I never see him again,” DeHaven recalled in an interview with RealLyfe Productions.& “When I...