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"Circling Me Like Hyenas" - TraxNYC DESTROYS Clout Chasers Trying To Steal His Fame

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🗓️ 7 January 2026

⏱️ 11 minutes

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TraxNYC opens up about his Azerbaijani background, being raised Jewish with a Muslim father, and how that shaped his worldview in business and life. He also explains how a Diamond District confrontation turned into a viral moment, massive traffic growth, and why respect, restitution, and principles matter more than ego or money.

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0:00.0

In this space you're in.

0:01.1

By the way, he said your background, Azerbaijan, Baku.

0:04.0

Is it true, it's half Jewish, half Muslim? Yes. Well, my mother's Jewish. I was raised Jewish. You know, my dad never told me anything about the religion. But then I found the Quran in the house, you know, when I was 15. And I'm like, oh, I guess so. Are you Muslim dad? And he said, yeah. You found that the first time he was

0:22.7

Muslim at 15. Yes. Your parents are still together. They're not together anymore, but they

0:27.3

separate like when I was 25. So they were together for 25 some years, maybe even a little longer.

0:32.6

Yeah, like 30. Jewish and Muslim. Yeah. How did that happen? Oh, you know, the Soviet Union, it wasn't very a religious state, you know? So religion didn't play a factor back then. You were just all communist, I guess. So communism was above religion. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Interesting. So, so, I mean, genetic-wise, that's like perfect to get into jewelry, no? I suppose so. I mean, I'm happy with it, you know, because it gives me an open-minded perspective on faith,

1:00.0

you know, whether it's Christianity or anything, and that's it.

1:05.0

You know, I mean, my sister, I know, I shouldn't say this, but I'm going to say it anyway,

1:08.0

because it bothered me.

1:09.0

My sister's like, don't say you're half Muslim because, you know, because she's Orthodox Jewish. And the people in her area, you know, Muslim is like a terrorist. I'm like, I don't give a shit what they think. You know what I'm saying? Like some of these Orthodox people are like, Muslim are scared. You know what I'm saying? I'm like, I'm like, that's disgusting. That's're scared. You know what I'm saying?

1:29.2

Or like, I'm like, that's disgusting.

1:30.7

That's disgusting behavior.

1:31.4

You know what I'm saying?

1:35.8

Judging a person because you're scared of what they look like or what their name is.

1:36.9

All these fucking labels.

1:39.7

Listen, men, these are all lines on a map.

1:40.7

And I get a lot of that.

1:41.4

Oh, I'm Armenian.

1:42.4

Or I'm Georgian. Oh, I'm Armenian or I'm Georgian, oh, I'm this, or I'm that, or I'm here.

1:44.4

Someone messaged me in a DM. And, you know, don't be blaming us for genocide and bad-da-da-da-da. I'm like, shut the fuck up, okay? All right? These are all lines on the map. Your great-grandfather could have been from, you know, another place and you don't know it.

2:00.8

You don't know where these people from and who they, you know, another place, and you don't know it. You don't know where

2:01.2

these people from and who they, you know, got together with, hooked up with 300 years ago on what

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