$1,400,000,000
Jay Z
Net Worth
Born in (City)
New York
Born in (Country)
United States of America
Date of Birth
04th December, 1969
Date of Death
-
Mother
Gloria Carter
Father
Adnis Reeves
Children
- Blue Ivy
- Rumi
- Sir
About
Shawn Corey Carter, better known by his stage name Jay-Z (adapted as JAY-Z), is an American rapper, lyricist, record maker, and businessperson. Jay-Z initially started his melodic profession in the wake of establishing the record name Roc-A-Fella Records in 1995, and hence delivered his introduction studio collection Reasonable Doubt in 1996. The collection was delivered to broad basic achievement, and set his remains in the music business. He has proceeded to deliver twelve extra collections, including the acclaimed collections, The Blueprint (2001), The Black Album (2003), American Gangster (2007), and 4:44 (2017). Jay-Z has additionally delivered the full-length collective collections Watch the Throne (2011) with Kanye West and Everything Is Love (2018) with his better half Beyoncé. Jay-Z has also achieved media consideration as a businessperson. In 1999, he established the apparel retailer Rocawear, and in 2003, he established the extravagance sports bar chain 40/40 Club.
Early Life
Shawn Corey Carter was conceived in the Brooklyn precinct of New York City on December 4, 1969. He was brought up in Marcy Houses, a lodging venture in Brooklyn’s Bedford–Stuyvesant neighborhood. After their father, Adnis Reeves, abandoned the family, Jay-Z and his three siblings were raised by their mother, Gloria Carter. Reeves would later meet and reconcile with Jay-Z before passing away in 2003. Jay-Z claims in his verses that in 1982, at age 12, he shot his elder sibling in the shoulder for taking his adornments. Alongside rapper AZ, he went to Eli Whitney High School in Brooklyn until it was shut. He then attended nearby George Westinghouse Career and Technical Education High School with rappers The Notorious B.I.G. Furthermore, Busta Rhymes, trailed by a stint at Trenton Central High School in Trenton, New Jersey, however he did not graduate. As indicated by his interviews and verses, he sold rocks and was shot at three times during this period. As indicated by his mom, Jay-Z used to awaken his siblings around evening time slamming out drum patterns into the kitchen table. She got him a boombox for his birthday, starting his enthusiasm for music, and he started freestyling and composing verses. Known as "Jazzy" around the area, he later received the stage name "Jay-Z" in reverence to his coach Jaz-O. He got known to a wide crowd on the force cut "Show and Prove" on the 1994 Big Daddy Kane collection Daddy's Home. The youthful Jay-Z showed up on a famous melody by Big L, "Da Graveyard", and on Mic Geronimo's "An ideal opportunity to Build", which additionally included early appearances by DMX and Ja Rule in 1995. His first official rap single was designated "In My Lifetime", for which he delivered a music video in 1995.
Road to Success
With no significant mark to give him a record bargain, Jay-Z sold CDs out of his vehicle and, with Damon "Dame" Dash and Kareem "Biggs" Burke, created Roc-A-Fella Records as an autonomous name in 1995. Jay-Z delivered his 1996 collection Reasonable Doubt with beats from acclaimed makers, DJ Premier and Super DJ Clark Kent and an appearance by The Notorious B.I.G.. The collection arrived at number 23 on the Billboard 200, and was commonly favored by pundits. This collection would later be remembered for Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time as No. 248 and inevitably arrive at platinum status. In 1997, Jay-Z delivered his follow-up In My Lifetime, Vol. 1. Created via Sean "Puff Daddy" Combs, it sold superior to his past exertion. In 1998, Jay-Z delivered Vol. 2..Hard Knock Life which produced the greatest hit of his profession at that point, "Difficult existence (Ghetto Anthem)". He depended more on stream and wit, and he proceeded with his inclination for mining beats from the well known makers of the day, Swizz Beatz. Vol. 2 would inevitably become Jay-Z’s most industrially fruitful collection; it was affirmed 5× Platinum in the United States and as to date sold more than 5,000,000 duplicates. The collection proceeded to win a Grammy Award, despite the fact that Jay-Z boycotted the function fighting DMX’s inability to accumulate a Grammy selection. In 2000, Jay-Z delivered The Dynasty. It sold more than 2,000,000 units in the U.S. alone. In time, he worked with Eminem, Kanye West, Beyoncé, Pharrell Williams, Coldplay’s Chris Martin, Rihanna and many more which made way into many chart lists.
Challenges
Having been abandoned by the father in the early stage of childhood, Jay-Z’s mother raised him and his siblings. The relationship with his father was in pain, even though later, the former reconciled with the latter before he passed away in 2003. In his school years, he had to sell crack in order to support the family but got shot at three times. There was even a time where he had to shoot his brother for stealing his adornments. At the early stage of his career, Jay-Z had to sell his works in custom CDs out of a car. At the peak of his career, Jay-Z announced a sudden retirement , which would later be the focal point of his film Fade to Black. His first child with Beyoncé got miscarriage before Blue Ivy was born. From struggling periods to successful days, Jay-Z has been through it all.
Failures
After gaining fame and popularity Jay-Z never had to look back. But On December 1, 1999, Jay-Z, who had come to believe that record executive Lance "Un" Rivera was behind the bootlegging of Vol. 3..., stabbed Rivera at the release party for Q-Tip's album Amplified at the Kit Kat Klub in Times Square, New York City. Jay-Z's associates at the party were accused of causing a commotion within the club, which Jay-Z allegedly used as cover while he stabbed Rivera in the stomach with a five-inch (127 mm) blade. He surrendered to police the following evening and was placed under arrest, although he was soon released on $50,000 bail. When he was indicted in Manhattan Criminal Court in late January 2000, he pleaded not guilty; he and his lawyers contended that they had witnesses and videotapes proving he had been nowhere near Rivera during the incident. Nevertheless, he later pleaded guilty to third-degree assault and accepted a three-year probation sentence.
Achievements
R&B Albums Artist of the year-Billboard Music of Awards (1998)|Best Rap Album- Grammy Awards (1999)|Best Female Video (With Beyoncé) - MTV Video Music Awards (2003)|Best R&B Video- MTV Video Music Awards (2003)|Best Choreography- MTV Video Music Awards (2003)|International Male Solo Artist- BRIT Awards (2009)|Favorite Rap/ Hip Hop Album- American Music Awards (2011)|Award Winning R&B/ Hip Hop Songs- ASCAP Rhythm & Soul Music Awards (2013)|Single of the year - BET Hip Hop Awards (2018)|Top Rap Tour- Billboard Music Of Awards (2019)
Quotes
- We change people through conversation, not through censorship.
- All I got is dreams. Nobody else believes. Nobody else can see. Nobody else but me.
- Identity is a prison you can never escape, but the way to redeem your past is not to run from it, but to try to understand it, and use it as a foundation to grow.