New York Magazine decided to investigate an address Jay-Z credits as being his “stash box” in the lyrics from his latest single, “Empire State of Mind.” Turns out that the address, 560 State Street, is in Boerum Hill.
The whole world knows Jigga grew up in the Marcy Projects in Bedford-Stuyvesant. So why is he bigging up Boerum Hill? What exactly is at 560 State Street? Vulture investigated.
“I guess after Reasonable Doubt, it was time [for Jay-Z] to move somewhere else,” says Morgan Lieberthal, a resident of 560 State Street since 1997 (who also saw Jay-Z in concert at Madison Square Garden last week). According to him and other residents who have been there since the mid-nineties, Jay moved into apartment 10B sometime in late 1996 or early 1997.
[...] was outside of 560 State Street, the address now known as his old “stash box.” The photo above was taken frmo the blog Inverted Soapbox, which says that Jay-Z is the person in [...]