Vinnie tells the full story of how a mysterious old bookseller at Philly’s Reading Terminal handed him a series of obscure, hand-copied books called “the Matrix” — and how that discovery at 16 years old kicked off a lifetime of research that’s shown up across his entire catalog ever since. If you’ve ever caught an obscure reference in a JMT or Vinnie Paz rhyme and wondered where it came from, this is where it all started.