School of hard knocks: I'm a grad
And that all-blue Yankee is my graduation cap

from T.I. (Ft. Jay-Z, Kanye West & Lil Wayne) – Swagga Like Us Lyrics on Rap Genius

New York is the School of Hard Knocks. Jay said so in A Lil Sumthing the streets taught him more than Berkeley would as said in Hello Brooklyn 2.0 so when he got older, he Graduated from the streets, but always will feel close to the hood with that New York Yankees Hat.

Jay “made the Yankee hat more famous than a Yankee can”

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