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Jay-Z Biography

Shawn Corey Carter (born December 4, 1969), known professionally as Jay-Z (stylized as JAY-Z),[a] is an American rapper and businessman. He is one of the best-selling musicians of all time, having sold more than 50 million albums and 75 million singles worldwide, while receiving 21 Grammy Awards for his music. MTV ranked him the "Greatest MC of all time" in 2006. Rolling Stone ranked three of his albums—Reasonable Doubt (1996), The Blueprint (2001), and The Black Album (2003)—among The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. In 2018, Forbes estimated his net worth at $900 million, making him the richest hip hop artist in the world.

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I seen the worst of the worst. I deserve every blessing I receive I'm from the dirt.

Blessing, Deserve, Dirt, Worst

Everything evens up, you just wait, Even a garbage can gets a steak, You ain't even a garbage can, you have faith!

Evens, Garbage Cans, Have Faith, Steak, Wait, Waiting

You learn more in failure than you ever do in success

Failure, Learn, Success

You can want success all you want, but to get it, you can’t falter. You can’t slip. You can’t sleep. One eye open, for real, and forever.

Eye, Open, Real, Sleep

For me, the challenge is just making great albums, because talent - and writing in general - is not tangible. There's no expiration date on it. At the same time, you might wake up tomorrow and be unable to write music.

Albums, Challenges, Date, Time, Writing

Don't ever go with the flow. Be the flow.

Flow, Forty

I came, I saw, I conquered From record sales to sold out concerts.

Concerts, Conquered, Records, Sales, Saws

Niggas pray and pray on my downfall, But every time I hit the ground I bounce up like round ball

Ball, Balls, Bounce, Downfall, Praying

Everyone needs a chance to evolve.

Chance, Everyone, Evolve, Needs

Their gunnin' for me, want to see me fall, you know my story, been through it all, times I felt like dyin', but I ain't cryin', what didn't kill me, makes me strong as iron.

Dyin, Fall, Like, Strength, Strong, Times

For me, being with Obama or having dinner with Bill Clinton. . . It's crazy. It's mind-blowing, because where I come from is just another world. We were just ignored by politicians, by America in general.

America, Come, Crazy, Mind Blowing, Politicians

I grew up in Marcy Projects in Brooklyn, and my mom and pop had an extensive record collection, so Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder and all of those sounds and souls of Motown filled the house.

Filled, House, Jackson, Mom, Soul

My life after childhood has two main stories: the story of the hustler and the story of the rapper, and the two overlap as much as they diverge. I was on the streets for more than half of my life from the time I was thirteen years old. People sometimes say that now I'm so far away from that life - now that I've got businesses and Grammys and magazine covers - that I have no right to rap about it. But how distant is the story of your own life ever going to be? The feelings I had during that part of my life were burned into me like a brand. It was life during wartime.

Hustler, Magazine, Overlap, Rap, Two, Years

I wrote this [Most Kings] before MJ died, and his death only proves my point: When he was alive, the King of Pop, people were tireless in taking him down, accepting as truth every accusation people made against him, assuming the worst until they drove him away. When he died, suddenly he was beloved again - people realized that the charges against him might really have been bogus, and that the skin lightening was really caused by a disease, and that his weirdness was part of his artistry. But when he was alive and on top, they couldn't wait to bring him down.

Kings, People, Skin, Top, Truth, Waiting

I couldn't even think about wanting to be something else; I wouldn't let myself visualize another life. But I wrote because I couldn't stop. It was a release, a mental exercise, a way of keeping sane.

Exercise, Keeping, Mental, Thinking, Way, Wrote

I look in the mirror, my only opponent

Look, Looks, Mirror, Mirrors, Opponent, Opponents

I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That's what this world is about. You look at someone like Gandhi, and he glowed. Martin Luther King glowed. Muhammad Ali glows. I think that's from being bright all the time, and trying to be brighter.

Kings, Knowledge, Like, Muhammad, Thinking, Trying

I get my by any means on, whenever there's a drought get your umbrellas out because that's when I brainstorm.

Brainstorm, Drought, Mean, Umbrella, Umbrellas, Whenever

[T]he truth is that drug addicts have a disease. It only takes a short time in the streets to realize that out-of-control addiction is a medical problem, not a form of recreational or criminal behavior. And the more society treats drug addiction as a crime, the more money drug dealers will make "relieving" the suffering of the addicts.

Addiction, Disease, Drug, Medical Problems, Realize, Time

As sure as this Earth is turnin, souls burnin
In search of higher learnin, turnin in every direction seeking direction
My moms cryin cause her insides are dyin
Her son tryin her patience, keep her heart racin
A million beats a minute, I know I push you to your limit
But it's this game, love—I'm caught up all in it
They make it so you can't prevent it, never give it
You gotta take it, can't fake it, I keep it authentic

Heart, Million, Mom, Patience, Prevent, Son

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