Former Net Stephon Marbury says Jay-Z is ‘not an advocate for Black people’

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NBA players’ names get thrown around in rap songs all the time. Usually, it’s a good thing when that happens.

But every once in a while, it’s not — like when Jay-Z mentioned former New Jersey Nets guard Stephon Marbury in his song “La-La-La (Excuse Me Miss Again),” which was part of the Bad Boys II soundtrack:

Don’t confuse me with Marbury out this [expletive]

Run up on me at the light, you could lose your life

While with the Nets in 2000, Marbury was robbed of a 24-inch diamond necklace worth $150,000 in Manhattan, after leaving a nightclub, by two men, the police told the New York Times after the incident.

Jay-Z’s reference to the robbery wasn’t the start of the beef between the two, Marbury recently told Brandon “Scoop B” Robinson of Heavy.com. But, the lyrics certainly didn’t quiet down the situation.

The ex-Nets guard has spoken about the former Brooklyn Nets minority owner in the past, but Marbury laid into Jay-Z even more during his recent discussion with Robinson:

I look at Jay-Z and I say, ‘Wow, here you are trying to be something that you’re not. You’re not an advocate for Black people, you sold drugs to Black people and you rapped about it and talked about it.’ How do you do that? Like, I’m trying to figure that part out; like, you can’t make that right. This ain’t snitching, this ain’t telling on nobody, you told on yourself already. You already told people what it is that you do and how you do it and how you feel about what you’re doing. So, how are you rapping about something that you did? I’m confused. I dunno. But, people ask me, ‘Why you always talking about Jay-Z? Why you always say something about LeBron?’ — they’re two of the same. They [are] together. They [are] friends.

Marbury continued:

You sold drugs to people where you [are] from Jay-Z in Brooklyn in Marcy. You got them on crack — whatever it is cocaine whatever it is that you were selling to them. Whatever you say you [were] ‘cooking up,’ that’s what you did. So now, you got your people high, you sold drugs to women that were pregnant. Now you created crack babies — these same babies that are going out killing grandparents … I’m confused. But that’s what it is. That’s what happened.