JAY-Z

Jay-Z has been since 1996出道rapidly became the entire East Coast rap figures rank of the commander in chief, he is not only one of the top rapper is also the best one of the music in the pop music industry has a high status . In addition, operators of Jay-Z's Roc-A-Fella record company, in the whole black music market is the most prominent commercial success of the brand, rap music for the whole market has a very important influence. Jay-Z each have more than a platinum album sales, and enter the new century, with music constantly make new achievements, and musical influence on the increase in Jay-Z feelers from rap music itself gradually shift to other music, such as increased with the outside of the South East Coast and West Coast rappers rap music, as well as the cooperation between the production areas, in order to push rap music and popular music as a whole have made no small contribution. Jay-Z name Shawn Carter, also known as Sean Carter, in the December 4, 1970 in the United States was born in Brooklyn, New York, was born here and the other rap artist, Shawn Carter's father in his small time left He and his mother Gloria Carter, during this difficult time is Shawn Carter the most profound impression. Shawn Carter of the juvenile alone propped up and his mother's life, he became a street near an ordinary black rapper, the first time he took for himself a name derived from jazz, "Jazzy" soon simplified Jay-Z. When a rapper does not Naizheng enough money, in order to survive, Jay-Z, and there must also be, like other young people do not engage in acts of bright, but more often rely on the Jay-Z or some small recording studio then he has recorded some tape to sell out to make money subsistence. Jay-Z in the vicinity of rap talent gradually being understood by the people, Jay-Z began in some local small number of singers and rappers where a短工, where he had the opportunity of exposure to rap music production, and these music recording industry has aroused the ambitions of Jay-Z, Jay-Z and not the same as other singers and the record companies signing, but the two friends and Damon Dash and Kareem "Biggs" Burke co-founded Roc-A-Fella record companies, he attached his own record company Def Jam (at that time also called Priority Records)'s, and began the production and distribution of music albums.