His parents weren't WASPs, but they were, in his words, "very wealthy" until he was 12, when his father got sick, stopped working, and was forced to declare bankruptcy. Steve Reisman grew up in Locust Valley, a sterile, WASPy section of Long Island. Eventually, he turned to his friend and asked, "Yo, who is that?" "I see him giving out money to Jaden Smith and A$AP Rocky and taking pictures," Warren told me. Warren described him as "this old white guy" strolling around like he owned the place, wearing a business suit with Yeezys. The following year, photographer Allan Warren saw him backstage at PeterPalooza, the annual concert hosted by Hot 97's Peter Rosenberg. "I didn't find out who he was until years later when I met him again at a G-Eazy show," where he was onstage, throwing $2 bills into the crowd. "I was backstage getting my camera equipment set up and he walked by, said 'Hello, here's a $2 bill for good luck,' and walked away," Schultz told me.
Jaime Schultz, a San Francisco-based photographer, first saw him at Def Jam's 30th Anniversary Concert in 2014. And the $2 bills show up, too, raining down at a Jay Z concert or on Kim Kardashian's Snapchat story. He shows up in Instagram photos with Drake and Big Sean and Meek Mill and Steve Aoki. And not just in the crowd, but backstage, or even onstage. If you've been to enough shows in the past decade, you've probably seen him, too. "I was like, 'Who is this guy?'" Braun remembers.Īfter that show, Braun started noticing him everywhere-at hip hop shows, concerts, music festivals-always with a fat wad of $2 bills. But a few minutes later, he saw more cash-$2 bills, specifically-floating down toward the stage. "It's not that kind of show, buddy," he remembers saying. Braun ran up to the balcony to confront him.
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