{"id":4831,"date":"2010-11-23T17:56:40","date_gmt":"2010-11-23T17:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.dropcents.com\/blog\/?p=4831"},"modified":"2011-05-24T23:08:21","modified_gmt":"2011-05-24T23:08:21","slug":"jay-z-admits-to-shooting-his-brother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dropcents.com\/blog\/jay-z-admits-to-shooting-his-brother\/","title":{"rendered":"Jay-Z Admits to Shooting his Brother"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jay-Z confessed for the first time about a crime he committed when he was younger: he shot his older brother, Eric, when he was just 12 years old.<\/p>\n

In his new book, “Decoded”, the rapper, now 40, opened up about the shocking incident. Jay-Z shot Eric, who was a crack addict at the time, for stealing a ring — in an interview with British newspaper The Guardian.<\/p>\n

Growing up in Brooklyn, New York’s infamous Marcy projects, the rapper (real name: Shawn Carter) says it was easy to get his hands on a gun. “How did he get the gun? “I went to someone’s crib, someone’s house, and got it. Guns were everywhere. You didn’t have to go far to get one. Just everywhere.”<\/p>\n

While the shooting was non-fatal, Jay-Z admits, “I thought my life was over. I thought I’d go to jail for ever.”<\/p>\n

But his sibling refused to press charges. When Jay-Z viwwwd Eric in the hospital, it was Eric who apologized for his crack addiction.<\/p>\n

“It was terrible,” he says now. “I was a boy, a child. I was terrified.”<\/p>\n

It’s the only time Jay-Z ever shot someone, he says. “There were shoot-outs, but I never shot anyone else. Most people in shoot-outs don’t get shot.”<\/p>\n

He was, however, shot at three times, but was never hit. “It’s like there was some rogue angel watching over us.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jay-Z confessed for the first time about a crime he committed when he was younger: he shot his older brother, Eric, when he was just 12 years old. In his new book, “Decoded”, the rapper, now 40, opened up about the shocking incident. Jay-Z shot Eric, who was a crack addict at the time, for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,214],"tags":[1276,1277],"class_list":["post-4831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-interviews","tag-jay-z-shot-his-brother","tag-jay-zs-brother","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t