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Steve Madden was once name-dropped by Jay-Z | Renaissance Man with Jalen Rose | New York Post
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26:26Now PlayingFashion designer and businessman Steve Madden stops by the show to talk about how he got into the shoe business, he chats about his new memoir 'The Cobbler' and Jalen shares valuable advice about the importance of forgiving yourself.
From Jalen: When my recent guest on “Renaissance Man” was in prison, he got a major cred boost from Jay-Z.
In “Excuse Me Miss Again,” Jay rapped “Fake Manolo boots straight from Steve Madden,” and the line couldn’t have come at a better time. Madden was serving a 41-month sentence in prison (he served 2½ years) for stock manipulation, money laundering and securities fraud. He was released in 2005.
“So I told my kids about that, and they didn’t believe me,” Madden told me of his Jay-Z namecheck.
“So I was in prison when that happened. I was in federal prison. And it was fantastic.” (He meant the song, not the sentence.)
“You know, I would be with all the guys in the rec yard. and I’d be, ‘You know Jay-Z just rapped about me.’ They’d say, ‘No you’re full of s–t’. And sure enough, boom, and you know I became an honorary brother at that moment. So it was kind of cool.”
On the outside, people might take it as a diss, but when you’re in jail, and you’re the minority, it’s like getting a blessing from the hip-hop pope.
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