DJ Khaled recently turned 50 and received a gift from Jay-Z and record executive Lenny S that blew him away.
Khaled posted a video on Instagram of Lenny S standing in his living room giving him framed pictures from Khaled’s early days as a teenage DJ when he purchased a red 1991 BMW M3 with money he made hosting parties along with model of the same car.
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“That’s in the ’90s, I had an M3, hustlin’,” said Khaled while holding a picture of himself posing with the same car when he was 15. “Listen, the vision was so clear. We used to do parties, rent out halls and we used to charge $5 at the door, and the flyers were graffiti. … I bought an M3, and this M3, I put a system in it. I was like, 15, 16, and I put a system in it, and the whole car caught on fire.”
Lenny then told Khaled that he had good news and that he had bad news. The good news was that he had the car outside waiting for him, but the bad news was that it didn’t have a custom system in it yet. Of course, Khaled couldn’t believe it.
“No way,” he said. “Nah, nah, nah, nah, that’s crazy. Yo, listen, that’s crazy. Nah, this legendary. Oh my God, yo, that’s crazy. Yo, Jay-Z, Lenny S, y’all went crazy on this. You know I used to have one of these sh–s? This is crazy. An M3? You know how classic this is? You know Hov and that Lexus? Yo, Hov, yo Len, stop, man. Y’all gonna make me cry, don’t do this. Yo, I was selling Pelle Pelles out the back of the trunk, mixtapes, I used to sell alligator shoes out the back of this trunk. This that real deal. … Lenny S and Jay-Z got me an M3.”
DJ Khaled turned 50 on Nov. 26.
