I’m not from your world. I’m a young man who made it out of the project of Brooklyn. We don’t play these types of games. We have very strict codes and honor. We protect children.”
Regardless of whether he's guilty or innocent gangsters definitely don't have a code of honor. Cats will turn pregnant women into crack fiends or heroin addicts and if a child gets caught in a cross fire I guaranfuckingtee no one is turning themselves in to the police.
Also Jay-Z is a multi-millionaire/billionaire. He does fuck all for the Marcy projects besides minor bullshit (Fucking bitcoin classes in the projects? Really?) that are pennies compared to if his hoe ass actually paid his taxes.