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- JAY-Z SAYS HE WEPT WH JOY WHEN HIS MOM CAME OUT AS GAY
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HE ED RAP AS AN PE, APPEARG FOR THE FIRST TIME ON YO! MTV RAPS 1989. AFTER SELLG LNS OF RERDS WH HIS ROC-A-FELLA LABEL, JAY-Z CREATED HIS OWN CLOTHG LE AND FOUND AN ENTERTAMENT PANY. HE WED POPULAR SGER AND ACTRS {-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN-THICKNS:0.0625REM;TEXT-RATN-LOR:HER;TEXT-UNRLE-OFFSET:0.25REM;LOR:#A00000;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;}{LOR:#595959;TEXT-RATN-LOR:BORR-LK-BODY-HOVER;}BEYONCé 2008.EARLY LIFERAPPER JAY-Z WAS BORN SHAWN COREY CARTER ON DECEMBER 4, 1969, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK. "HE WAS THE LAST OF MY FOUR CHILDREN," JAY-Z'S MOTHER, GLORIA CARTER, LATER RELLED, "THE ONLY ONE WHO DIDN'T GIVE ME ANY PA WHEN I GAVE BIRTH TO HIM, AND THAT'S HOW I KNEW HE WAS A SPECIAL CHILD." HIS FATHER, ADN REEV, LEFT THE FAY WHEN JAY-Z WAS ONLY 11 YEARS OLD. THE YOUNG RAPPER WAS RAISED BY HIS MOTHER BROOKLYN'S DG-FTED MARCY PROJECTS.DURG A ROUGH ADOLCENCE, TAILED MANY OF HIS TOBGRAPHIL SONGS, CARTER ALT DGS AND FLIRTED WH GUN VLENCE. HE ATTEND MULTIPLE HIGH SCHOOLS, CLUDG GEE WTGHOE CAREER AND TECHNIL EDUTN HIGH SCHOOL DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN, WHERE HE WAS A CLASSMATE OF THE RAP LEGEND NOTOR B.I.G. AS JAY-Z LATER RELLED ONE OF HIS SONGS ("DECEMBER 4TH"): "I WENT TO SCHOOL, GOT GOOD GRAS, ULD BEHAVE WHEN I WANTED/BUT I HAD MONS EP SI THAT WOULD RAISE WHEN NONTED."RISE TO HIP-HOP FAMECARTER TURNED TO RAP AT A YOUNG AGE AS AN PE OM THE DGS, VLENCE AND POVERTY THAT SURROUND HIM THE MARCY PROJECTS. IN 1989, HE JOED THE RAPPER JAZ-O — AN OLR PERFORMER WHO SERVED AS A KD OF MENTOR — TO RERD A SONG LLED "THE ORIGATORS," WHICH WON THE PAIR AN APPEARANCE ON AN EPISO OF YO! MTV RAPS. IT WAS AT THIS POT THAT CARTER EMBRACED THE NICKNAME JAY-Z, WHICH WAS SIMULTANEOLY AN HOMAGE TO JAZ-O, A PLAY ON CARTER'S CHILDHOOD NICKNAME OF "JAZZY" AND A REFERENCE TO THE J/Z SUBWAY STATN NEAR HIS BROOKLYN HOME.EVEN WH A STAGE NAME, JAY-Z REMAED RELATIVELY ANONYMO UNTIL HE AND TWO IENDS, DAMON DASH AND KAREEM BURKE, FOUND THEIR OWN RERD LABEL, ROC-A-FELLA RERDS, 1996. IN JUNE OF THAT YEAR, JAY-Z RELEASED HIS BUT ALBUM, REASONABLE DOUBT. ALTHOUGH THE RERD ONLY REACHED NO. 23 ON THE BILLBOARD 200, IS NOW NSIRED A CLASSIC HIP-HOP ALBUM, CLUDG SONGS SUCH AS "CAN'T KNOCK THE HTLE," FEATURG MARY J. BLIGE, AND "BROOKLYN'S FT," A LLABORATN WH NOTOR B.I.G. REASONABLE DOUBT TABLISHED JAY-Z AS AN EMERGG STAR HIP-HOP.TWO YEARS LATER, JAY-Z ACHIEVED EVEN BROAR SUCCS WH THE 1998 ALBUM VOL. 2 ... HARD KNOCK LIFE. THE TLE TRACK, WHICH FAMOLY SAMPLED S CHOS OM THE BROADWAY MIL ANNIE, BEME JAY-Z'S MOST POPULAR SGLE TO DATE. HE SRED A GRAMMY W FOR VOL. 2 AND ANOTHER NOMATN FOR "HARD KNOCK LIFE," MARKG THE BEGNG OF A UFUL PERD WHICH JAY-Z WOULD BEE ONE OF THE BIGGT NAM HIP-HOP.DURG THOSE YEARS, THE RAPPER RELEASED A SLEW OF NO. 1 ALBUMS AND H SGL. HIS MOST POPULAR SONGS OM THIS PERD CLU "BIG PIMP'," "I JT WANNA LOVE U," "IZZO (H.O.V.A.)" AND "03 BONNIE & CLY," A DUET WH FUTURE BRI BEYONCé KNOWL. JAY-Z'S MOST ACCLAIMED ALBUM OF THIS PERD WAS THE BLUEPRT (2001), WHICH WOULD LATER POP UP ON SEVERAL MIC CRICS' LISTS OF THE BT ALBUMS OF THE .IN 2003, JAY-Z SHOCKED THE HIP-HOP WORLD BY RELEASG THE BLACK ALBUM AND ANNOUNCG THAT WOULD BE HIS LAST SOLO RERD BEFORE RETIREMENT. ASKED TO EXPLA HIS SUDN EX OM RAP, JAY-Z SAID THAT HE ONCE RIVED SPIRATN OM TRYG TO OUTSHE OTHER GREAT MCS, BUT HAD SIMPLY GOTTEN BORED DUE TO A LACK OF PETN. "THE GAME A'T HOT," HE SAID. "I LOVE WHEN SOMEONE MAK A HOT ALBUM AND THEN YOU'VE GOT TO MAKE A HOT ALBUM. I LOVE THAT. BUT A'T HOT." RAP COMEBACKIN 2006, JAY-Z END HIS RETIREMENT OM MAKG MIC, RELEASG THE NEW ALBUM KGDOM COME. HE SOON RELEASED TWO MORE ALBUMS: AMERIN GANGSTER 2007 AND BLUEPRT 3 2009. THIS TR OF ALBUMS MARKED A SIGNIFINT PARTURE OM JAY-Z'S EARLIER SOUND, RPORATG STRONGER ROCK AND SOUL FLUENC THEIR PRODUCTN AND OFFERG LYRICS THAT TACKLED SUCH MATURE SUBJECTS AS THE RPONSE TO HURRINE KATRA, BARACK OBAMA'S 2008 ELECTN AND THE PERILS OF FAME AND FORTUNE. JAY-Z NOTED HE WAS TRYG TO ADAPT HIS MIC TO BEF HIS OWN MIDDLE AGE. "THERE'S NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE E OF AGE RAP BEE 'S ONLY 30 YEARS OLD," HE SAID. "AS MORE PEOPLE E OF AGE, HOPEFULLY THE TOPICS GET BROAR AND THEN THE DIENCE WILL STAY AROUND LONGER."JAY-Z NEXT TEAMED UP WH FORMER ROC-A-FELLA PROTéGé KANYE WT FOR 2011'S WATCH THE THRONE. THE ALBUM PROVED TO BE A TRIPLE H, TOPPG THE RAP, R&B AND POP CHARTS SHORTLY AFTER S AUGT RELEASE. IT WENT ON TO GARNER MULTIPLE GRAMMY NOMATNS, WNG THE GRAMMY FOR BT RAP PERFORMANCE WH "OTIS," WHICH SAMPLED THE LATE R&B SGER OTIS REDDG.IN JULY 2013, JAY-Z UNVEILED HIS 12TH STUD ALBUM, MAGNA CARTA HOLY GRAIL. THE EFFORT EARNED A MIXED RECEPTN OM CRICS BUT OTHERWISE FARED WELL WH FANS, GOG ON TO TOP THE BILLBOARD 200 AND ACHIEVE DOUBLE-PLATUM STAT. THAT WTER JAY-Z EARNED A WHOPPG NE GRAMMY NOMATNS, SHARG THE W FOR BT RAP/SUNG COLLABORATN WH JT TIMBERLAKE FOR THE H SGLE "HOLY GRAIL."ROWEAR, TIDAL & OTHER BS VENTUR DURG HIS HIAT OM RAPPG, JAY-Z TURNED HIS ATTENTN TO THE BS SI OF MIC, BEG PRINT OF DEF JAM RERDGS. AS PRINT OF DEF JAM, JAY-Z SIGNED SUCH POPULAR ACTS AS RIHANNA AND NE-YO, AND HELPED WT'S TRANSN OM PRODUCER TO A BT-SELLG RERDG ARTIST. BUT HIS REIGN AT THE VENERABLE HIP-HOP LABEL WASN'T ALL SMOOTH SAILG; JAY-Z RIGNED AS DEF JAM'S PRINT 2007, PLAG ABOUT THE PANY'S RISTANCE TO CHANGE OM EFFECTUAL BS MOLS. "YOU HAVE RERD EXECUTIV WHO'VE BEEN STG THEIR OFFICE FOR 20 YEARS BEE OF ONE ACT," HE LAMENTED.IN 2008, JAY-Z SIGNED A $150 LN NTRACT WH THE NCERT PROMOTN PANY LIVE NATN. THIS SUPER AL CREATED A JOT VENTURE LLED ROC NATN, AN ENTERTAMENT PANY THAT HANDL NEARLY ALL ASPECTS OF S ARTISTS' REERS. ALONG WH JAY-Z, ROC NATN SIGNED SUCH TOP ARTISTS AS RIHANNA, SHAKIRA AND T.I., AMONG MANY OTHERS, TO S ROSTER.JAY-Z'S OTHER BS VENTUR CLU THE POPULAR URBAN CLOTHG LE ROWEAR AND ROC-A-FELLA FILMS. HE ALSO OWNS THE 40/40 CLUB, AN UPSLE SPORTS BAR THAT OPENED NEW YORK CY AND LATER ADD VENU ATLANTIC CY AND LAS VEGAS (SCE CLOSED), AS WELL AS ATLANTA. A PART-OWNER OF THE NEW JERSEY NETS BASKETBALL TEAM SCE 2004, JAY-Z HELPED SPUR THE RELOTN OF THE ANCHISE TO A BRAND-NEW HOME DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN, THE BARCLAYS CENTER, 2012. IN 2013, HE LNCHED A FULL-SERVICE SPORTS MANAGEMENT PANY, ROC NATN SPORTS, AND SOLD HIS BROOKLYN NETS SHAR ORR TO PURSUE CERTIFITN AS A SPORTS AGENT. AS JAY-Z ONCE RAPPED ABOUT HIS BS EMPIRE, "I'M NOT A BSMAN / I'M A BS, MAN."THE BS OF JAY-Z MA HEADL ONCE AGA MARCH 2015, WHEN HE AND SEVERAL OF HIS HIGH-POWERED IENDS, CLUDG MADONNA, NICKI MAJ AND JACK WHE, ANNOUNCED THE RELNCH OF TIDAL, A STREAMG MIC SERVICE. THE SERVICE GAED A REASONABLE STREAM OF FOLLOWERS — A TOUTED 1 LN SEPTEMBER 2015 — BUT ALSO ENDURED A REVOLVG DOOR OF TOP MANAGEMENT AND LEGAL ISSU. IN EARLY 2017, JAY-Z AGREED TO SELL A 33 PERCENT STAKE OF TIDAL TO TELEMUNITNS GIANT SPRT.IN JUNE 2019, FORB NAMED JAY-Z THE FIRST BILLNAIRE RAP ARTIST, CG HIS OWNERSHIP STAK ARMAND BRIGNAC CHAMPAGNE AND UBER AS NTRIBUTG FACTORS. SHORTLY AFTERWARD, HE ENTERED ANOTHER BURGEONG DTRY BY BEG CHIEF BRAND STRATEGIST OF THE CALIFORNIA-BASED CALIVA NNABIS PANY.'4:44'ON JUNE 15, 2017, JAY-Z BEME THE FIRST RAPPER TO BE DUCTED TO THE SONGWRERS HALL OF FAME. HE TWEETED ABOUT THE HONOR: “I REMEMBER WHEN RAP WAS SAID TO BE A FAD. WE ARE NOW ALONGSI SOME OF THE GREATT WRERS HISTORY.”LATER THAT MONTH, ON JUNE 30, JAY-Z RELEASED HIS 13TH SOLO ALBUM, 4:44, EXCLIVELY TO TIDAL AND SPRT SUBSCRIBERS. IT WAS CERTIFIED PLATUM BY THE RERDG INDTRY ASSOCIATN OF AMERI LS THAN A WEEK AFTER S RELEASE, SOLELY BASED ON DOWNLOAD NUMBERS. THE HIGHLY PERSONAL ALBUM, WHICH CLUS GUT ARTISTS BEYONCé, DAMIAN MARLEY AND FRANK OCEAN, WAS AN IMMEDIATE MERCIAL AND CRIL SUCCS, PRAISED FOR THE RAPPER’S NDID LYRICS AND A NEW LEVEL OF ARTISTIC MATURY.IN AN TERVIEW WHICH AIRED ON IHEARTMEDIA, JAY-Z LLED THE TLE TRACK, "4:44," "ONE OF THE BT SONGS I'VE EVER WRTEN." HIS LYRICS APPEAR TO ADDRS THE MARAL ISSU AND FILY HIS WIFE BEYONCé SANG ABOUT HER NFSNAL ALBUM LEMONA:“I APOLOGIZE, OFTEN WOMANIZE / TOOK FOR MY CHILD TO BE BORN / SEE THROUGH A WOMAN’S EY / TOOK FOR THE NATURAL TWS TO BELIEVE MIRACL / TOOK ME TOO LONG FOR THIS SONG / I DON’T SERVE YOU,” HE SAYS THE SONG, REFERRG TO THE BIRTH OF THEIR CHILDREN.OTHER TRACKS CLU "KILL JAY-Z," WHICH THE RAPPER TOLD IHEARTMEDIA "IS ABOUT KILLG OFF THE EGO," AND "THE STORY OF OJ," A MENT ON THE CULTURE OF SUCCS. "'THE STORY OF OJ' IS REALLY A SONG ABOUT WE AS A CULTURE, HAVG A PLAN, HOW WE'RE GONNA PH THIS FORWARD," HE SAID THE IHEARTMEDIA TERVIEW. "WE ALL MAKE MONEY, AND THEN WE ALL LOSE MONEY, AS ARTISTS PECIALLY. BUT HOW, WHEN YOU HAVE SOME TYPE OF SUCCS, TO TRANSFORM THAT TO SOMETHG BIGGER."WHEN THE LIST OF THE YEAR'S GRAMMY HOPEFULS WAS ANNOUNCED NOVEMBER, JAY-Z LED THE WAY WH EIGHT NOMATNS FOR HIS WORK ON 4:44. HE WOUND UP GETTG SHUT OUT WHEN THE WNERS WERE ANNOUNCED THE FOLLOWG JANUARY, THOUGH HE DID RECEIVE THE 2018 SALUTE TO INDTRY INS AWARD.OTR II AND 'EVERYTHG IS LOVE'SOON AFTERWARD, THE HIP-HOP KG ANNOUNCED THAT HE AND BEYONCé WERE TEAMG UP FOR THE OTR II TOUR THAT SUMMER, AN EXTENSN OF THEIR 2014 EFFORT. THE TOUR KICKED OFF CARDIFF, WAL, ON JUNE 6, AND 10 DAYS LATER, THE UPLE GAVE THEIR FANS ANOTHER REASON TO GET EXCED WH THE RELEASE OF A JOT ALBUM, EVERYTHG IS LOVE. INIALLY AVAILABLE FOR STREAMG SOLELY ON JAY-Z'S TIDAL, THE ALBUM WAS ACPANIED BY A MIC VIO FOR THE TRACK "AP**T," WHICH SHOWED THE CARTERS THEIR ARISTOCRATIC ELEMENT AS THEY SANG AND RAPPED AMONG THE WORLD-FAMO ART PIEC OF THE LOUVRE PARIS.POLIL AND CHARABLE WORKAFTER STAYG OUT OF THE POLIL ARENA FOR MUCH OF HIS REER, JAY-Z EMERGED AS A STRONG SUPPORTER OF OBAMA DURG HIS FIRST MPAIGN FOR PRINT 2008. HE APPEARED AT RALLI AND HAD ONLY HIGH PRAISE FOR THE AIN AMERIN NDIDATE. DURG ONE RALLY, JAY-Z TOLD THE CROWD THAT "ROSA PARKS SAT SO THAT MART LUTHER KG ULD WALK. MART LUTHER KG WALKED SO THAT OBAMA ULD N. OBAMA'S NNG SO WE ALL N FLY."JAY-Z ONCE AGA BACKED OBAMA FOR HIS 2012 RE-ELECTN BID. THAT SAME YEAR, HE STEPPED FORWARD AS A SUPPORTER OF GAY MARRIAGE. AS HE TOLD CNN, NYG SAME-SEX UPL THE RIGHT TO WED "IS NO DIFFERENT THAN DISCRIMATG AGAST BLACKS. IT'S DISCRIMATN PLA AND SIMPLE."IN OCTOBER 2015, JAY-Z HELD HIS FIRST ANNUAL CHARY NCERT LLED TIDAL X: 10/20, STARRG BEYONCé, MAJ, LIL WAYNE, USHER AND OTHER TOP-SELLG ARTISTS. THE FOLLOWG FEBARY, WAS ANNOUNCED THAT TIDAL WAS DONATG $1.5 LN OM NCERT PROCEEDS TO NUMERO ANIZATNS, CLUDG BLACK LIV MATTER AND SANKOFA, A NONPROF STARTED BY HARRY BELAFONTE.NFL PARTNERSHIPIN AUGT 2019, JAY-Z AND THE NATNAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE ANNOUNCED A PARTNERSHIP WHICH ROC NATN WOULD ADVISE ON ENTERTAMENT SELECTNS FOR NFL PROMOTNAL SPOTS AND EVENTS, CLUDG THE SUPER BOWL. ADDNALLY, THE TWO SIS AGREED TO WORK TOGETHER ON SOCIAL ACTIVISM EFFORTS THROUGH THE NFL'S INSPIRE CHANGE IATIVE.THE ANNOUNCEMENT WAS CRICIZED BY SUPPORTERS OF COL KAEPERNICK, THE QUARTERBACK WHO HADN'T PLAYED THE NFL SCE IGNG A NATNAL ANTHEM-KNEELG NTROVERSY 2016, BUT THE HIP-HOP MOGUL EXPRSED A BELIEF THAT HE ULD AFFECT THE SOCIAL CHANGE SOUGHT BY KAEPERNICK BY WORKG WH THE POWERFUL SPORTS LEAGUE."YOU N EHER GO HOME, YOU N PACK YOUR BAG AND S THE HOE, OR YOU N CHOOSE TO TAKE HEAD-ON," JAY-Z SAID. "AND THAT'S PRETTY MUCH HOW WE OPERATE AT ROC NATN. 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THE UPLE EVEN MANAGED TO KEEP THE PRS AWAY OM THEIR SMALL WEDDG, WHICH WAS HELD ON APRIL 4, 2008, NEW YORK CY. ONLY ABOUT 40 PEOPLE ATTEND THE CELEBRATN AT JAY-Z'S PENTHOE APARTMENT, CLUDG ACTRS GWYH PALTROW AND FORMER DTY'S CHILD MEMBERS KELLY ROWLAND AND MICHELLE WILLIAMS.JAY-Z AND BEYONCé WELED THEIR FIRST CHILD, A DGHTER NAMED BLUE IVY CARTER, ON JANUARY 7, 2012. CONCERNED ABOUT THEIR PRIVACY AND SAFETY, JAY-Z AND BEYONCé RENTED PART OF NEW YORK'S LENOX HILL HOSPAL AND HIRED EXTRA GUARDS.SHORTLY AFTER THE BIRTH OF HIS DGHTER, JAY-Z RELEASED A SONG HER HONOR ON HIS SE. ON "GLORY," HE EXPRSED HIS JOY OF BEG A FATHER AND REVEALED THAT BEYONCé HAD PREVLY SUFFERED A MISRRIAGE. JAY-Z AND BEYONCé ALSO POSTED A MSAGE ALONG WH THE SONG, SAYG "WE ARE HEAVEN" AND BLUE'S BIRTH "WAS THE BT EXPERIENCE OF BOTH OF OUR LIV."IN FEBARY 2017, BEYONCé ANNOUNCED ON INSTAGRAM THAT SHE AND JAY-Z WERE EXPECTG TWS. "WE WOULD LIKE TO SHARE OUR LOVE AND HAPPS. WE HAVE BEEN BLSED TWO TIM OVER. WE ARE CREDIBLY GRATEFUL THAT OUR FAY WILL BE GROWG BY TWO, AND WE THANK YOU FOR YOUR WELL WISH. THE CARTERS," SHE POSTED.JAY-Z AND BEYONCé WELED TWS, A BOY AND A GIRL, JUNE 2017. ALTHOUGH THE UPLE DIDN'T IMMEDIATELY NFIRM THE TWS' BIRTH OR THEIR NAM, PEOPLE MAGAZE REPORTED THAT THEY HAD FILED TRAMARK DOCUMENTS AT THE UNED STAT PATENT AND TRAMARK OFFICE FOR THE NAM SIR AND RUMI. IN THE EARLY MORNG HOURS OF JULY 14, BEYONCé MA OFFICIAL, POSTG A PHOTO WHICH SHE HOLDS THEIR 1-MONTH-OLD TWS.IN AN ARTICLE PUBLISHED BY T: THE NEW YORK TIM STYLE MAGAZE NOVEMBER 2017, JAY-Z OPENED UP ABOUT HIS MARAL PROBLEMS, ACKNOWLEDGED HIS FILY AND DISCSED HOW HE AND HIS WIFE WERE ABLE TO REDISVER THEIR BOND THROUGH THERAPY."I GREW SO MUCH OM THE EXPERIENCE," HE SAID. “BUT I THK THE MOST IMPORTANT THG I GOT IS THAT EVERYTHG IS NNECTED. EVERY EMOTN IS NNECTED AND OM SOMEWHERE. AND JT BEG AWARE OF . 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HE ED RAP AS AN PE, APPEARG FOR THE FIRST TIME ON YO! MTV RAPS 1989. AFTER SELLG LNS OF RERDS WH HIS ROC-A-FELLA LABEL, JAY-Z CREATED HIS OWN CLOTHG LE AND FOUND AN ENTERTAMENT PANY. HE WED POPULAR SGER AND ACTRS {-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN-THICKNS:0.0625REM;TEXT-RATN-LOR:HER;TEXT-UNRLE-OFFSET:0.25REM;LOR:#A00000;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;}{LOR:#595959;TEXT-RATN-LOR:BORR-LK-BODY-HOVER;}BEYONCé 2008.EARLY LIFERAPPER JAY-Z WAS BORN SHAWN COREY CARTER ON DECEMBER 4, 1969, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK. "HE WAS THE LAST OF MY FOUR CHILDREN," JAY-Z'S MOTHER, GLORIA CARTER, LATER RELLED, "THE ONLY ONE WHO DIDN'T GIVE ME ANY PA WHEN I GAVE BIRTH TO HIM, AND THAT'S HOW I KNEW HE WAS A SPECIAL CHILD." HIS FATHER, ADN REEV, LEFT THE FAY WHEN JAY-Z WAS ONLY 11 YEARS OLD. THE YOUNG RAPPER WAS RAISED BY HIS MOTHER BROOKLYN'S DG-FTED MARCY PROJECTS.DURG A ROUGH ADOLCENCE, TAILED MANY OF HIS TOBGRAPHIL SONGS, CARTER ALT DGS AND FLIRTED WH GUN VLENCE. HE ATTEND MULTIPLE HIGH SCHOOLS, CLUDG GEE WTGHOE CAREER AND TECHNIL EDUTN HIGH SCHOOL DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN, WHERE HE WAS A CLASSMATE OF THE RAP LEGEND NOTOR B.I.G. AS JAY-Z LATER RELLED ONE OF HIS SONGS ("DECEMBER 4TH"): "I WENT TO SCHOOL, GOT GOOD GRAS, ULD BEHAVE WHEN I WANTED/BUT I HAD MONS EP SI THAT WOULD RAISE WHEN NONTED."RISE TO HIP-HOP FAMECARTER TURNED TO RAP AT A YOUNG AGE AS AN PE OM THE DGS, VLENCE AND POVERTY THAT SURROUND HIM THE MARCY PROJECTS. IN 1989, HE JOED THE RAPPER JAZ-O — AN OLR PERFORMER WHO SERVED AS A KD OF MENTOR — TO RERD A SONG LLED "THE ORIGATORS," WHICH WON THE PAIR AN APPEARANCE ON AN EPISO OF YO! MTV RAPS. IT WAS AT THIS POT THAT CARTER EMBRACED THE NICKNAME JAY-Z, WHICH WAS SIMULTANEOLY AN HOMAGE TO JAZ-O, A PLAY ON CARTER'S CHILDHOOD NICKNAME OF "JAZZY" AND A REFERENCE TO THE J/Z SUBWAY STATN NEAR HIS BROOKLYN HOME.EVEN WH A STAGE NAME, JAY-Z REMAED RELATIVELY ANONYMO UNTIL HE AND TWO IENDS, DAMON DASH AND KAREEM BURKE, FOUND THEIR OWN RERD LABEL, ROC-A-FELLA RERDS, 1996. IN JUNE OF THAT YEAR, JAY-Z RELEASED HIS BUT ALBUM, REASONABLE DOUBT. ALTHOUGH THE RERD ONLY REACHED NO. 23 ON THE BILLBOARD 200, IS NOW NSIRED A CLASSIC HIP-HOP ALBUM, CLUDG SONGS SUCH AS "CAN'T KNOCK THE HTLE," FEATURG MARY J. BLIGE, AND "BROOKLYN'S FT," A LLABORATN WH NOTOR B.I.G. REASONABLE DOUBT TABLISHED JAY-Z AS AN EMERGG STAR HIP-HOP.TWO YEARS LATER, JAY-Z ACHIEVED EVEN BROAR SUCCS WH THE 1998 ALBUM VOL. 2 ... HARD KNOCK LIFE. THE TLE TRACK, WHICH FAMOLY SAMPLED S CHOS OM THE BROADWAY MIL ANNIE, BEME JAY-Z'S MOST POPULAR SGLE TO DATE. HE SRED A GRAMMY W FOR VOL. 2 AND ANOTHER NOMATN FOR "HARD KNOCK LIFE," MARKG THE BEGNG OF A UFUL PERD WHICH JAY-Z WOULD BEE ONE OF THE BIGGT NAM HIP-HOP.DURG THOSE YEARS, THE RAPPER RELEASED A SLEW OF NO. 1 ALBUMS AND H SGL. HIS MOST POPULAR SONGS OM THIS PERD CLU "BIG PIMP'," "I JT WANNA LOVE U," "IZZO (H.O.V.A.)" AND "03 BONNIE & CLY," A DUET WH FUTURE BRI BEYONCé KNOWL. JAY-Z'S MOST ACCLAIMED ALBUM OF THIS PERD WAS THE BLUEPRT (2001), WHICH WOULD LATER POP UP ON SEVERAL MIC CRICS' LISTS OF THE BT ALBUMS OF THE .IN 2003, JAY-Z SHOCKED THE HIP-HOP WORLD BY RELEASG THE BLACK ALBUM AND ANNOUNCG THAT WOULD BE HIS LAST SOLO RERD BEFORE RETIREMENT. ASKED TO EXPLA HIS SUDN EX OM RAP, JAY-Z SAID THAT HE ONCE RIVED SPIRATN OM TRYG TO OUTSHE OTHER GREAT MCS, BUT HAD SIMPLY GOTTEN BORED DUE TO A LACK OF PETN. "THE GAME A'T HOT," HE SAID. "I LOVE WHEN SOMEONE MAK A HOT ALBUM AND THEN YOU'VE GOT TO MAKE A HOT ALBUM. I LOVE THAT. BUT A'T HOT." RAP COMEBACKIN 2006, JAY-Z END HIS RETIREMENT OM MAKG MIC, RELEASG THE NEW ALBUM KGDOM COME. HE SOON RELEASED TWO MORE ALBUMS: AMERIN GANGSTER 2007 AND BLUEPRT 3 2009. THIS TR OF ALBUMS MARKED A SIGNIFINT PARTURE OM JAY-Z'S EARLIER SOUND, RPORATG STRONGER ROCK AND SOUL FLUENC THEIR PRODUCTN AND OFFERG LYRICS THAT TACKLED SUCH MATURE SUBJECTS AS THE RPONSE TO HURRINE KATRA, BARACK OBAMA'S 2008 ELECTN AND THE PERILS OF FAME AND FORTUNE. JAY-Z NOTED HE WAS TRYG TO ADAPT HIS MIC TO BEF HIS OWN MIDDLE AGE. "THERE'S NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE E OF AGE RAP BEE 'S ONLY 30 YEARS OLD," HE SAID. "AS MORE PEOPLE E OF AGE, HOPEFULLY THE TOPICS GET BROAR AND THEN THE DIENCE WILL STAY AROUND LONGER."JAY-Z NEXT TEAMED UP WH FORMER ROC-A-FELLA PROTéGé KANYE WT FOR 2011'S WATCH THE THRONE. THE ALBUM PROVED TO BE A TRIPLE H, TOPPG THE RAP, R&B AND POP CHARTS SHORTLY AFTER S AUGT RELEASE. IT WENT ON TO GARNER MULTIPLE GRAMMY NOMATNS, WNG THE GRAMMY FOR BT RAP PERFORMANCE WH "OTIS," WHICH SAMPLED THE LATE R&B SGER OTIS REDDG.IN JULY 2013, JAY-Z UNVEILED HIS 12TH STUD ALBUM, MAGNA CARTA HOLY GRAIL. THE EFFORT EARNED A MIXED RECEPTN OM CRICS BUT OTHERWISE FARED WELL WH FANS, GOG ON TO TOP THE BILLBOARD 200 AND ACHIEVE DOUBLE-PLATUM STAT. THAT WTER JAY-Z EARNED A WHOPPG NE GRAMMY NOMATNS, SHARG THE W FOR BT RAP/SUNG COLLABORATN WH JT TIMBERLAKE FOR THE H SGLE "HOLY GRAIL."ROWEAR, TIDAL & OTHER BS VENTUR DURG HIS HIAT OM RAPPG, JAY-Z TURNED HIS ATTENTN TO THE BS SI OF MIC, BEG PRINT OF DEF JAM RERDGS. AS PRINT OF DEF JAM, JAY-Z SIGNED SUCH POPULAR ACTS AS RIHANNA AND NE-YO, AND HELPED WT'S TRANSN OM PRODUCER TO A BT-SELLG RERDG ARTIST. BUT HIS REIGN AT THE VENERABLE HIP-HOP LABEL WASN'T ALL SMOOTH SAILG; JAY-Z RIGNED AS DEF JAM'S PRINT 2007, PLAG ABOUT THE PANY'S RISTANCE TO CHANGE OM EFFECTUAL BS MOLS. "YOU HAVE RERD EXECUTIV WHO'VE BEEN STG THEIR OFFICE FOR 20 YEARS BEE OF ONE ACT," HE LAMENTED.IN 2008, JAY-Z SIGNED A $150 LN NTRACT WH THE NCERT PROMOTN PANY LIVE NATN. THIS SUPER AL CREATED A JOT VENTURE LLED ROC NATN, AN ENTERTAMENT PANY THAT HANDL NEARLY ALL ASPECTS OF S ARTISTS' REERS. ALONG WH JAY-Z, ROC NATN SIGNED SUCH TOP ARTISTS AS RIHANNA, SHAKIRA AND T.I., AMONG MANY OTHERS, TO S ROSTER.JAY-Z'S OTHER BS VENTUR CLU THE POPULAR URBAN CLOTHG LE ROWEAR AND ROC-A-FELLA FILMS. HE ALSO OWNS THE 40/40 CLUB, AN UPSLE SPORTS BAR THAT OPENED NEW YORK CY AND LATER ADD VENU ATLANTIC CY AND LAS VEGAS (SCE CLOSED), AS WELL AS ATLANTA. A PART-OWNER OF THE NEW JERSEY NETS BASKETBALL TEAM SCE 2004, JAY-Z HELPED SPUR THE RELOTN OF THE ANCHISE TO A BRAND-NEW HOME DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN, THE BARCLAYS CENTER, 2012. IN 2013, HE LNCHED A FULL-SERVICE SPORTS MANAGEMENT PANY, ROC NATN SPORTS, AND SOLD HIS BROOKLYN NETS SHAR ORR TO PURSUE CERTIFITN AS A SPORTS AGENT. AS JAY-Z ONCE RAPPED ABOUT HIS BS EMPIRE, "I'M NOT A BSMAN / I'M A BS, MAN."THE BS OF JAY-Z MA HEADL ONCE AGA MARCH 2015, WHEN HE AND SEVERAL OF HIS HIGH-POWERED IENDS, CLUDG MADONNA, NICKI MAJ AND JACK WHE, ANNOUNCED THE RELNCH OF TIDAL, A STREAMG MIC SERVICE. THE SERVICE GAED A REASONABLE STREAM OF FOLLOWERS — A TOUTED 1 LN SEPTEMBER 2015 — BUT ALSO ENDURED A REVOLVG DOOR OF TOP MANAGEMENT AND LEGAL ISSU. IN EARLY 2017, JAY-Z AGREED TO SELL A 33 PERCENT STAKE OF TIDAL TO TELEMUNITNS GIANT SPRT.IN JUNE 2019, FORB NAMED JAY-Z THE FIRST BILLNAIRE RAP ARTIST, CG HIS OWNERSHIP STAK ARMAND BRIGNAC CHAMPAGNE AND UBER AS NTRIBUTG FACTORS. SHORTLY AFTERWARD, HE ENTERED ANOTHER BURGEONG DTRY BY BEG CHIEF BRAND STRATEGIST OF THE CALIFORNIA-BASED CALIVA NNABIS PANY.'4:44'ON JUNE 15, 2017, JAY-Z BEME THE FIRST RAPPER TO BE DUCTED TO THE SONGWRERS HALL OF FAME. HE TWEETED ABOUT THE HONOR: “I REMEMBER WHEN RAP WAS SAID TO BE A FAD. WE ARE NOW ALONGSI SOME OF THE GREATT WRERS HISTORY.”LATER THAT MONTH, ON JUNE 30, JAY-Z RELEASED HIS 13TH SOLO ALBUM, 4:44, EXCLIVELY TO TIDAL AND SPRT SUBSCRIBERS. IT WAS CERTIFIED PLATUM BY THE RERDG INDTRY ASSOCIATN OF AMERI LS THAN A WEEK AFTER S RELEASE, SOLELY BASED ON DOWNLOAD NUMBERS. THE HIGHLY PERSONAL ALBUM, WHICH CLUS GUT ARTISTS BEYONCé, DAMIAN MARLEY AND FRANK OCEAN, WAS AN IMMEDIATE MERCIAL AND CRIL SUCCS, PRAISED FOR THE RAPPER’S NDID LYRICS AND A NEW LEVEL OF ARTISTIC MATURY.IN AN TERVIEW WHICH AIRED ON IHEARTMEDIA, JAY-Z LLED THE TLE TRACK, "4:44," "ONE OF THE BT SONGS I'VE EVER WRTEN." HIS LYRICS APPEAR TO ADDRS THE MARAL ISSU AND FILY HIS WIFE BEYONCé SANG ABOUT HER NFSNAL ALBUM LEMONA:“I APOLOGIZE, OFTEN WOMANIZE / TOOK FOR MY CHILD TO BE BORN / SEE THROUGH A WOMAN’S EY / TOOK FOR THE NATURAL TWS TO BELIEVE MIRACL / TOOK ME TOO LONG FOR THIS SONG / I DON’T SERVE YOU,” HE SAYS THE SONG, REFERRG TO THE BIRTH OF THEIR CHILDREN.OTHER TRACKS CLU "KILL JAY-Z," WHICH THE RAPPER TOLD IHEARTMEDIA "IS ABOUT KILLG OFF THE EGO," AND "THE STORY OF OJ," A MENT ON THE CULTURE OF SUCCS. "'THE STORY OF OJ' IS REALLY A SONG ABOUT WE AS A CULTURE, HAVG A PLAN, HOW WE'RE GONNA PH THIS FORWARD," HE SAID THE IHEARTMEDIA TERVIEW. "WE ALL MAKE MONEY, AND THEN WE ALL LOSE MONEY, AS ARTISTS PECIALLY. BUT HOW, WHEN YOU HAVE SOME TYPE OF SUCCS, TO TRANSFORM THAT TO SOMETHG BIGGER."WHEN THE LIST OF THE YEAR'S GRAMMY HOPEFULS WAS ANNOUNCED NOVEMBER, JAY-Z LED THE WAY WH EIGHT NOMATNS FOR HIS WORK ON 4:44. HE WOUND UP GETTG SHUT OUT WHEN THE WNERS WERE ANNOUNCED THE FOLLOWG JANUARY, THOUGH HE DID RECEIVE THE 2018 SALUTE TO INDTRY INS AWARD.OTR II AND 'EVERYTHG IS LOVE'SOON AFTERWARD, THE HIP-HOP KG ANNOUNCED THAT HE AND BEYONCé WERE TEAMG UP FOR THE OTR II TOUR THAT SUMMER, AN EXTENSN OF THEIR 2014 EFFORT. THE TOUR KICKED OFF CARDIFF, WAL, ON JUNE 6, AND 10 DAYS LATER, THE UPLE GAVE THEIR FANS ANOTHER REASON TO GET EXCED WH THE RELEASE OF A JOT ALBUM, EVERYTHG IS LOVE. INIALLY AVAILABLE FOR STREAMG SOLELY ON JAY-Z'S TIDAL, THE ALBUM WAS ACPANIED BY A MIC VIO FOR THE TRACK "AP**T," WHICH SHOWED THE CARTERS THEIR ARISTOCRATIC ELEMENT AS THEY SANG AND RAPPED AMONG THE WORLD-FAMO ART PIEC OF THE LOUVRE PARIS.POLIL AND CHARABLE WORKAFTER STAYG OUT OF THE POLIL ARENA FOR MUCH OF HIS REER, JAY-Z EMERGED AS A STRONG SUPPORTER OF OBAMA DURG HIS FIRST MPAIGN FOR PRINT 2008. HE APPEARED AT RALLI AND HAD ONLY HIGH PRAISE FOR THE AIN AMERIN NDIDATE. DURG ONE RALLY, JAY-Z TOLD THE CROWD THAT "ROSA PARKS SAT SO THAT MART LUTHER KG ULD WALK. MART LUTHER KG WALKED SO THAT OBAMA ULD N. OBAMA'S NNG SO WE ALL N FLY."JAY-Z ONCE AGA BACKED OBAMA FOR HIS 2012 RE-ELECTN BID. THAT SAME YEAR, HE STEPPED FORWARD AS A SUPPORTER OF GAY MARRIAGE. AS HE TOLD CNN, NYG SAME-SEX UPL THE RIGHT TO WED "IS NO DIFFERENT THAN DISCRIMATG AGAST BLACKS. IT'S DISCRIMATN PLA AND SIMPLE."IN OCTOBER 2015, JAY-Z HELD HIS FIRST ANNUAL CHARY NCERT LLED TIDAL X: 10/20, STARRG BEYONCé, MAJ, LIL WAYNE, USHER AND OTHER TOP-SELLG ARTISTS. THE FOLLOWG FEBARY, WAS ANNOUNCED THAT TIDAL WAS DONATG $1.5 LN OM NCERT PROCEEDS TO NUMERO ANIZATNS, CLUDG BLACK LIV MATTER AND SANKOFA, A NONPROF STARTED BY HARRY BELAFONTE.NFL PARTNERSHIPIN AUGT 2019, JAY-Z AND THE NATNAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE ANNOUNCED A PARTNERSHIP WHICH ROC NATN WOULD ADVISE ON ENTERTAMENT SELECTNS FOR NFL PROMOTNAL SPOTS AND EVENTS, CLUDG THE SUPER BOWL. ADDNALLY, THE TWO SIS AGREED TO WORK TOGETHER ON SOCIAL ACTIVISM EFFORTS THROUGH THE NFL'S INSPIRE CHANGE IATIVE.THE ANNOUNCEMENT WAS CRICIZED BY SUPPORTERS OF COL KAEPERNICK, THE QUARTERBACK WHO HADN'T PLAYED THE NFL SCE IGNG A NATNAL ANTHEM-KNEELG NTROVERSY 2016, BUT THE HIP-HOP MOGUL EXPRSED A BELIEF THAT HE ULD AFFECT THE SOCIAL CHANGE SOUGHT BY KAEPERNICK BY WORKG WH THE POWERFUL SPORTS LEAGUE."YOU N EHER GO HOME, YOU N PACK YOUR BAG AND S THE HOE, OR YOU N CHOOSE TO TAKE HEAD-ON," JAY-Z SAID. "AND THAT'S PRETTY MUCH HOW WE OPERATE AT ROC NATN. 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THE UPLE EVEN MANAGED TO KEEP THE PRS AWAY OM THEIR SMALL WEDDG, WHICH WAS HELD ON APRIL 4, 2008, NEW YORK CY. ONLY ABOUT 40 PEOPLE ATTEND THE CELEBRATN AT JAY-Z'S PENTHOE APARTMENT, CLUDG ACTRS GWYH PALTROW AND FORMER DTY'S CHILD MEMBERS KELLY ROWLAND AND MICHELLE WILLIAMS.JAY-Z AND BEYONCé WELED THEIR FIRST CHILD, A DGHTER NAMED BLUE IVY CARTER, ON JANUARY 7, 2012. CONCERNED ABOUT THEIR PRIVACY AND SAFETY, JAY-Z AND BEYONCé RENTED PART OF NEW YORK'S LENOX HILL HOSPAL AND HIRED EXTRA GUARDS.SHORTLY AFTER THE BIRTH OF HIS DGHTER, JAY-Z RELEASED A SONG HER HONOR ON HIS SE. ON "GLORY," HE EXPRSED HIS JOY OF BEG A FATHER AND REVEALED THAT BEYONCé HAD PREVLY SUFFERED A MISRRIAGE. JAY-Z AND BEYONCé ALSO POSTED A MSAGE ALONG WH THE SONG, SAYG "WE ARE HEAVEN" AND BLUE'S BIRTH "WAS THE BT EXPERIENCE OF BOTH OF OUR LIV."IN FEBARY 2017, BEYONCé ANNOUNCED ON INSTAGRAM THAT SHE AND JAY-Z WERE EXPECTG TWS. "WE WOULD LIKE TO SHARE OUR LOVE AND HAPPS. WE HAVE BEEN BLSED TWO TIM OVER. WE ARE CREDIBLY GRATEFUL THAT OUR FAY WILL BE GROWG BY TWO, AND WE THANK YOU FOR YOUR WELL WISH. THE CARTERS," SHE POSTED.JAY-Z AND BEYONCé WELED TWS, A BOY AND A GIRL, JUNE 2017. ALTHOUGH THE UPLE DIDN'T IMMEDIATELY NFIRM THE TWS' BIRTH OR THEIR NAM, PEOPLE MAGAZE REPORTED THAT THEY HAD FILED TRAMARK DOCUMENTS AT THE UNED STAT PATENT AND TRAMARK OFFICE FOR THE NAM SIR AND RUMI. IN THE EARLY MORNG HOURS OF JULY 14, BEYONCé MA OFFICIAL, POSTG A PHOTO WHICH SHE HOLDS THEIR 1-MONTH-OLD TWS.IN AN ARTICLE PUBLISHED BY T: THE NEW YORK TIM STYLE MAGAZE NOVEMBER 2017, JAY-Z OPENED UP ABOUT HIS MARAL PROBLEMS, ACKNOWLEDGED HIS FILY AND DISCSED HOW HE AND HIS WIFE WERE ABLE TO REDISVER THEIR BOND THROUGH THERAPY."I GREW SO MUCH OM THE EXPERIENCE," HE SAID. “BUT I THK THE MOST IMPORTANT THG I GOT IS THAT EVERYTHG IS NNECTED. EVERY EMOTN IS NNECTED AND OM SOMEWHERE. AND JT BEG AWARE OF . BEG AWARE OF EVERYDAY LIFE PUTS YOU AT SUCH A … YOU’RE AT SUCH AN ADVANTAGE."HE ECHOED MANY OF THOSE SENTIMENTS AN TERVIEW WH CNN'S VAN JON JANUARY 2018, ACKNOWLEDGG THE DIFFICULT PATCH WH BEYONCé AND THE PROGRS THEY'D MA REPAIRG THEIR UNN. "FOR , WE CHOSE TO FIGHT FOR OUR LOVE," HE SAID. "FOR OUR FAY. TO GIVE OUR KIDS A DIFFERENT OUTE. TO BREAK THAT CYCLE FOR BLACK MEN AND WOMEN."ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAMEJAY-Z WILL BE DUCTED TO THE ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME OCTOBER 2021, ALONGSI CAROLE KG, THE GO-GO’S, TA TURNER, TODD RUNDGREN AND THE FOO {BORR:0;BORR-BOTTOM:TH SOLID BLACK;MARG:1.875REM 0;CLEAR:BOTH;}QUICK FACTS
Some of Jay-Z’s other homophobic lyrics clu:. “What you gay? “And sce you fatuated wh say’ tha gay sh” – From “Super Ugly”.
“Had n*ggas mad for real like ‘I wish he was gay’”- From “Hey Papi”.
50 CENT COMPAR JAY-Z TO ‘GAY PATER’ BASQUA AFTER JIGGA CALLS EMEM ‘THAT WHE GUY’
“That’s gay, I a’t to likg dus no way”- From “La La La (Exce Me Aga)”. Related: Jay-Z reveals gay fay secrets on new, pro-LGBT anthem.