What Would Jay-Z Do: Buy The Whole Car

This is the second installment of the series “What Would Jay-Z Do?” He once said he’d give you $1 million worth of game for $9.99. I’m offering it for even more of a bargain: the price of a Substack subscription. As the author of the Jay-Z biography Empire State of Mind, I know a thing or two about the guy. Enjoy!

Toward the end of “Can I Live?”—the mellowest and perhaps most under-appreciated song on Jay-Z’s epic 1996 debut, Reasonable Doubt—the rapper offers some lyrical financial advice: “We d...