Jay Z Talks about Drug Dealer Past, Calls Blue Ivy His Biggest Fan And Says Bey Is 'Gangsta' In Vanity Fair November 2013 Issue.

"There wasn’t any place you could go for isolation or a break. You go in the hallway; [there are] crackheads in the hallway. You look out in the puddles on the curbs—crack vials are littered in the side of the curbs. You could smell it in the hallways, that putrid smell; I can’t explain it, but it’s still in my mind when I think about it.”