Hip-hop entrepreneur, born on December 4, 1969 in the Marcy housing projects of Bedford-Stuyvesant, a neighborhood in Brooklyn, a borough of New York City, New York.
Worked from the age of thirteen as a drug dealer selling crack cocaine in the back alleys around where he grew up.
JAY-Z is currently the co-owner and chairman of Entertainment, co-owner, creative consultant and co-developer of and is a certified sports agent through Roc Nation Sports. He previously co-founded and Rocawear (along with and ), created the 40/40 Club in 2001 and had prior endorsement deals with Armadale and (JAY-Z was the first non-athletic hip-hop artist to endorse Reebok footwear before ). From 2004 to 2009, he was president and CEO of .
As an artist, JAY-Z has sold over 59 million records worldwide and invested in over $1.9 billion in cash and assets. He has broke out artists such as , , , , and many more. Since 2008, he has been married to singer with whom he has three children (including ).
Name Vars
- Black Album Revisited
- El Presidente \
- Holla Yall
- J
- J-Z
- J.-Z
- J..?
- J.Z.
- JAY Z
- JAY-Z
- JAYZ
- JZ
- Jay
- Jay - Z
- Jay C
- Jay Hova
- Jay J
- Jay Z
- Jay Z.
- Jay Zee
- Jay'Z
- Jay-Y
- Jay-Z \
- Jay-Z (Uncredited)
- Jay-Zee
- Jay-Ziano
- Jay-z
- Jay. Z
- Jay.2
- Jay.Z
- Jay:Z
- JayZ
- Jayz
- Jayziano
- Jaz-Z
- Jaÿ Z
- Jaÿ-Z
- Jz
- S. Carter
- Sheek
- The Incredible Jay Z
- The Incredible Jay-Z
- Yaz-z
- ¸§¤ûZ
- ¸§¤།༺
Aliases
- HOV
- Shawn Carter
- Jigga
- El Presidente
- The Carter Administration