Photo: Is Jay-Z A Time Traveller, Or Is Everyone Racist?

New York Public Library's Schomburg Center

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Published May 9, 2013

Modified May 9, 2013

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This week, the The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library posted a photo of a man in Harlem in 1933 that they think bears a striking resemblance to Jay-Z. And now, everyone from Buzzfeed to the Daily News to Reddit has embraced time travelling Jay-Z.

So do you think this is Jay-Z's long lost ancestor Jay-B? Or is this viral marketing for The Great Gatsby? Is Jay-Z a time traveller, or is everyone just being kinda racist today without realizing it? Thank god there's one Superman-obsessed man who can give us an accurate first person account of the last 200 years or so.