Photo from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture goes viral

May 10, 2013 10:01 GMT  ·  By

On the official Facebook page of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is a photo of a man sitting on a fence on the streets of New York in 1939. The Center needs help with identifying the man but the Internet has already decided who he is.

It’s Jay-Z!

Click on the image above to see it in full.

Not even the Center is oblivious to the resemblance.

“Does the man on the right remind you of someone? Perhaps it was his great-grandfather taking a break in Harlem in 1939,” reads the pic’s description.

“The photographer, we know for sure, was Sid Grossman. If you can put a (real) name on the young man, let us know below,” it adds.

The moment the pic was online, it went viral, with bloggers proposing two (equally hilarious) theories that might explain why Jay-Z is featured in a photograph from way back in 1939: either he’s a time traveler or it has something to do with his involvement with the Illuminati.

The fun never stops online, obviously.