Jay-Z Invests In... Chicken Wings

Jay-Z has conquered the rap game, the business of selling records and running clubs, and he managed to take the Single Lady off the market—so what's left? He's now invested in Buffalo Boss, a modest chicken wing spot at 554 Fulton Street. The joint was opened by his first cousin three months ago, according to the Brooklyn Paper, and since word got out this week about Jay-Z's involvement, business has increased 60%! His cousin, Jama White, calls it "The Oprah Effect," and says "business is booming... We got a lot of attention real fast.” (So booming that they recently rewarded outstanding students at a local school with free food!)

The paper also gives them a boost, saying their "investigative team" discovered their wings were top quality when they dropped by yesterday. (Yelp reviewers haven't been so kind.) But will Jay-Z being stopping in frequently? In 2009 he told Oprah that when he was young, his family ate "a lot of chicken, you know, because chicken's cheap. We had so much chicken—chicken backs, chicken everything... to this day, I can only eat small pieces or else I feel funny."

According to earlier reports, the wings are made from 100% organic chicken with no hormones or trans-fat, and an order of 10 will cost $8.

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By Jen Carlson in Food on January 13, 2011 12:50 PM

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valeriob

I got nothin'

Just Me

No free Rocawear jeans giveaway with a bucket o' chicken?

random transplant

Jigga need to get his cash out of Atlantic Yards & invest back in Marcy. He should know there's potential up there...but I'm not sure $1.20 a wing is moving in the right direction. Theres already an overpriced cheap chicken wing place on Fulton.

whitecastlerock

$10 for 8 wings? Christine Quinn and the City Council needs to look into this...

NlGGAZ

So if kids are doing well in school they will reward them with high triglycerides and a lower life expectancy? way to pare down the smarties or not so smarties if they eat that 900 calorie wings meal.

masterjarvis

you sound incredibly smug and obnoxious

NlGGAZ

and you sound like someone who doesn't know how to use smug and obnoxious in a sentence and if it weren't for spellcheck you wouldn't know how to spell it either. If I wanted to be smug and obnoxious I'd say that Jay-Z started off selling crack to the children, then he sold misogyny to the children, and now he's giving the children clogged arteries at a inflated price. But now that I think about it, that doesn't sound smug and obnoxious. It's the TRUTH!! (puts on headphones and listens to WHAT THESE BITCHES WANT! from jay-z and DMX)

random transplant

You'd make a better smug person than a nutritionist. There is nothing unhealthy about treating yourself to some chicken - we've pretty much established that chicken soup is nutritious.

It's up to you to decide if you want to go overboard with it. Kinda like DMX in 2010.