A photo of man bearing a striking
resemblance to Jay-Z has surfaced, and if it wasn't for the fact that it
was taken in 1939, you'd swear it was JayZ himself.

The photo is “Harlem Loiterers” by the street
photographer Sid Grossman and it was stumbled across recently by a
curator at the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research
In Black Culture.
And the New York Public Library swears, the
old photo of the guy who looks scarily like Jay-Z really is an
unretouched, un-Photoshopped image from 1939.
“We’re 100 percent
certain it’s legitimate,” Adenike Olanrewaju, a library spokeswoman,
said on Friday.
Since the photo hit the internet, different
conspiracy, theories bordering on Jay-Z re-incarnating has spread on the
internet.
The man in the picture is staring down the camera
lens with a distinct sense of attitude and intent. Best of all, the man
from the past has exactly the same poise and swagger as our very own
present day JayZ.

On account of Jay-Z being 43 years old, the man in the
photo is of course not him. Or what do you think?