Now, he is known to be one of the best rappers of all time. This album went triple hit, made the top rap charts for August and also nominated for the Grammy for the best rap Album. In 2009, he released Blue print 3, but in 2011 he teamed up with Kanye West to do an LP called Watch the Throne. He created the albums "Kingdom Came" and the year after "American Gangster". He also became a businessman by creating his own clothing company, Rocawear, and owning a part of the Brooklyn Nets, an NBA basketball team.Īfter a step back in his career, he made a decision in 2006 to come back into the game. He signed a lot of great artists such as Rihanna, Ne-Yo and Kanye West. He became the president of Def Jam Recordings. He decided to concentrate more on his producer career than his rap career. He said that the game was too easy for him. In 2003, Jay-Z stopped rapping, because he found that there were not enough good rappers to compete with him. He was now considered as one of the biggest in the game. It was claimed by critics to be one of the albums of the decade. From 1998 to 2003, Jay-Z produced a lot of good songs and albums, but his most famous album was The Blueprint. His career took a step higher, in 1998, when he won his first Grammy with his song Hard-Knock-Life. Jay-Z had a good start, but he wasn’t mainstream enough to be a famous star of hip-hop, so he decided to create his own label record with two of his friends called the Roc-A-Fella Records. He chose Jay Z, to thank his mentor Jaz-O, but also at his high school he used to be called “Jazzy”. After this show he needed to find a stage name. This song gave them the opportunity to go on the MTV raps show and this was the first step to glory for him. He recorded a song with him called “The Originator”. At the age of 20, Shawn met Jaz-O, who was an old performer. He thought it was a way to escape from violence, drugs and poverty. Jay-Z started to rap at a very young age. Jay-Z went to Eli Whitney High School, in Brooklyn, where he met the well-known The Notorious B.I.G. Like he said in a lot of his autobiographical songs, Jay-Z was involved with a lot of drug deals and gun violence.
At the age of 11 his father left the family, so he was raised by his mother, Gloria Carter. In June 2019, it was reported that Jay-Z had become the first billionaire rapper. Jay-Z has several nicknames, "Jigga", "Hova", "Young Hov", and "The Greatest Rapper Alive". He is one of the most financially successful hip-hop artists and businessmen in America. Jay-Z co-owns The 40/40 Club and the Brooklyn Nets NBA team. He is the former CEO of Def Jam Recordings and Roc-A-Fella Records. Shawn Corey Knowles-Carter (born December 4, 1969), known professionally as Jay-Z (stylized as JAY-Z), is an American rapper, songwriter, record producer, entrepreneur, investor, businessman, and record executive.
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