Hip-hop artist, rapper, and producer Jay-Z was born Shawn Corey Carter on December 4, 1969 in Brooklyn, New York.

• " I'm far from being god, but I work god damn hard."




• " The average rap life is two or three albums. You're lucky to get to your second album in rap!"




• " I'd rather die enormous than live dormant.""




• " They say a midget standing on a giant's shoulders can see much further than the giant. So I got the whole rap world on my shoulders, they trying to see further than I am.”"




• " He who does not feel me is not real to me, therefore he does not exist. So, poof... vamoose, son of a bitch."




• "I have inherited two of the most important brands in hip-hop, Def Jam and Roc-A-Fella. Reid and Universal Music Group have given me the opportunity to manage the companies I have contributed to my whole career. I feel this is a giant step for me and the entire artist community."




• " I carry my nephews like my sons, always have, and they have filled that void for me"




• "It's like Patti LaBelle, she has a beautiful voice, especially when she hits high notes. But if she hit a high note the whole song, you'd never want another like it from her. It's the fact that she eases into it, and that it's just a small part, a bridge of a song, makes it beautiful. And that's what life is. It's the bridge of a song.




• "Sex, murder, and mayhem, romance for the street. Man, and I tell ya, it'll be the best seller."

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