Jay-Z’s early life was markedly different from the way the rapper lives now. He said violence and drugs were common during his adolescence. When he was just 12 years old, he shot his brother in ...

In the early 1990s, he started recording demos ... To sum up this short Jay-Z biography, his legacy is monumental. His cultural influence not only rings out through the music industry, but across ...

Jay-Z shared the one person in his life who still called him Shawn ... This is an abbreviation of J-hova, a play on Jehovah. Early in his career, people saw something almost divine in the fact ...