Reasonable Doubt established Jay-Z as an emerging star in hip-hop. Blige, and "Brooklyn's Finest," a collaboration with Notorious B.I.G. 23 on the Billboard 200, it is now considered a classic hip-hop album, including songs such as "Can't Knock the Hustle," featuring Mary J. In June of that year, Jay-Z released his debut album, Reasonable Doubt. It was at this point that Carter embraced the nickname Jay-Z, which was simultaneously an homage to Jaz-O, a play on Carter's childhood nickname of "Jazzy" and a reference to the J/Z subway station near his Brooklyn home.Įven with a stage name, Jay-Z remained relatively anonymous until he and two friends, Damon Dash and Kareem Burke, founded their own record label, Roc-a-Fella Records, in 1996. In 1989, he joined the rapper Jaz-O - an older performer who served as a kind of mentor - to record a song called "The Originators," which won the pair an appearance on an episode of Yo! MTV Raps. As Jay-Z later recalled in one of his songs ("December 4th"): "I went to school, got good grades, could behave when I wanted/But I had demons deep inside that would raise when confronted." Rise to Hip-Hop FameĬarter turned to rap at a young age as an escape from the drugs, violence and poverty that surrounded him in the Marcy Projects. He attended multiple high schools, including George Westinghouse Career and Technical Education High School in downtown Brooklyn, where he was a classmate of the rap legend Notorious B.I.G. The young rapper was raised by his mother in Brooklyn's drug-infested Marcy Projects.ĭuring a rough adolescence, detailed in many of his autobiographical songs, Carter dealt drugs and flirted with gun violence. "He was the last of my four children," Jay-Z's mother, Gloria Carter, later recalled, "the only one who didn't give me any pain when I gave birth to him, and that's how I knew he was a special child." His father, Adnes Reeves, left the family when Jay-Z was only 11 years old.
Rapper Jay-Z was born Shawn Corey Carter on December 4, 1969, in Brooklyn, New York. He wed popular singer and actress Beyoncé in 2008. After selling millions of records with his Roc-a-Fella label, Jay-Z created his own clothing line and founded an entertainment company. He used rap as an escape, appearing for the first time on Yo! MTV Raps in 1989. Jay-Z is an American rapper, songwriter and producer who grew up in Brooklyn's drug-infested Marcy Projects.
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