Yeah, are new york crews on average taller than others, or what?
Anyways, the trick is and I do remember both of them perhaps eluding to it at the time, that they both rode waves to success. They were lucky and in the right place at the right times.
One was insurance, and the insurance industry was booming, and Warren was right there, and stayed there, and amassed his huge fortunes, and Jay Z, initially riding a crack boom in New York and getting out in time, with enough inertia to ride a Hip Hop boom.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2440081/I-knew-budgets-I-drug-dealer-Jay-Z-says-learned-business-skills-selling-crack-cocaine-1980s.html
'I knew about budgets, I was a drug dealer': Jay-Z says he learned his business skills from selling crack cocaine during the 1980s
Hip hop mogul Jay Z, one of the richest men in the music industry, has admitted he got his business skills from drug dealing
He said selling crack cocaine on the streets of New York during the 1980s gave him the skills to succeed later in life.