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. Reynolds, Gee Roberson, Toomp & Kanye West, producers Bruce Beuchner, Andrew Dawson, Mike Dean, Anthony Kilhoffer, Greg Koller, Manny Marroquin, Nottz Raw, Tony Rey, Seiji Sekine, Paul Sheehy & D.Biography Early life

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