"He was the last of my four children," Jay-Z's mother 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." Jay-Z's 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 Knowles in 2008. After selling millions of records with his own Roc-A-Fella label, Jay-Z created his own clothing line. He used rap as an escape, and appeared on Yo! MTV Raps in 1989.
"I never lost sense of who I was, not for a day, not before I had a record deal, and certainly not after."īorn Shawn Corey Carter on December 4, 1969, Jay-Z grew up in Brooklyn's drug-infested Marcy Projects.
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