Jay-Z Roc's the ring, i know beyonce is like "ow!!!"

Jay-z was spotted in Manhattan yesterday wearing his wedding band to the shock of everyone. Neither Jay-z nor Beyonce have been seen with their wedding rings since the wedding in April. So…I’m guessing this is monumental. *insert blank face here*. On the heels of several rappers being exposed, Jay-z talks about being a coke dealer and what it means to “Keep It Real” in a recent interview:

‘I think it’s more important for me to be in touch with who I am than in touch with the streets, per se,’ he says. ‘Being in touch with the streets, keeping it real, that’s become a lie and a cliche. I’m not hanging on the corner in the Bed-Stuy. I hate it when rappers say, “I’m keeping it ‘hood.” I’m like, “Why? What do you mean? No one’s there by choice! You’re in the hood, by choice?”‘

He was himself a cocaine dealer from the age of 16 to ‘around 22′. The lifestyle was ‘very dangerous’ but also exciting. Jay-Z plays a lot of poker, and he uses a gambling metaphor to describe the ‘adrenaline rush’ of a life of crime. ‘It’s the highest stakes game of poker you can play. You stand to lose more than chips. The most exciting part of poker is when you’re all-in, and it’s like you’re all-in all the time. And a lot of times people get addicted to that feeling.’

‘After a while, when I did OK, it made it even harder to leave because I felt like I was making even more money than the rappers. I had a Lexus with TVs all in the car. I felt like my life was better than theirs. At that time there wasn’t no Puffys around, taking private jets. None of that shit was going on.’

Bling he feels was misinterpreted by the media as tasteless showing off, when really it was a celebration of success by people who had enjoyed precious little of that before. ‘These people came from nothing,’ he says. ‘No-thing. The bottom. And when they got money and cars and houses it was a party. Like, us being here, at the Lanesborough, eating caviar? That just didn’t happen before. Why not celebrate that?’ Source

….just wondering if Jay is really keeping it real about his “coke dealer past”… Stans be easy…