

Jay-Z also appeared on stage during U2 performances of “Sunday Bloody Sunday”, and in Auckland also on a five-track EP entitled Watch the Throne.Ģ017–2018: 4:44 and Everything Is Love: In early June 2017, posters were displayed in New York City and Los Angeles, as well as banner ads on the Internet promoting a Tidal-related project titled 4:44. Jay-Z released his tenth album entitled American Gangster on November 6, 2007.Ģ008–2011: The Blueprint 3 and Watch the Throne: During Kanye West’s concert of August 6, 2008, at Madison Square Garden, Jay-Z came out to perform a new song and he and Kanye proclaimed that it was to be on The Blueprint 3. On November 25, 2003, Jay-Z held a concert-billed as a “retirement party” at Madison Square Garden in New York City, which would later be the focus of his film Fade to Black.Ģ005–2007: Kingdom Come and American Gangster: Jay-Z returned with his comeback album on November 21, 2006, titled Kingdom Come.

alone.Ģ003–2005: The Black Album and initial retirement: After visiting the south of France, Jay-Z announced work on his eighth studio album The Black Album at the opening of the 40/40 Club. The album debuted on the Billboard 200 at number one, selling over 3 million units in the U.S. Jay-Z’s next solo album was 2002’s The Blueprint2: The Gift & The Curse, a double album. In 2000, Jay-Z released The Dynasty: Roc La Familia, which was originally intended to become a compilation album for Roc-A-Fella artists but Def Jam turned into a Jay-Z album.Ģ001–2002: Feud with Nas, The Blueprint and The Blueprint2: Jay-Z released his sixth studio album, The Blueprint, which received a coveted five-mic review from hip-hop magazine The Source. 2… Hard Knock Life which spawned the biggest hit of his career at the time, “Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)”. 3… and The Dynasty: In 1998, Jay-Z released Vol. Produced by Sean “Puff Daddy” Combs, it outsold his previous release.ġ998–2000: Vol. The album reached number 23 on the Billboard 200.Īfter reaching a new distribution deal with Def Jam in 1997, Jay-Z released his follow-up In My Lifetime, Vol. After striking a distribution deal with Priority, Jay-Z released his 1996 debut album Reasonable Doubt with beats from acclaimed producers such as DJ Premier and Super DJ Clark Kent and an appearance by The Notorious B.I.G. 1: With no major label to give him a record deal, Jay-Z sold CDs out of his car and, with Damon “Dame” Dash and Kareem “Biggs” Burke, created Roc-A-Fella Records as an independent label in 1995. Shawn Core y Carter was born in the Brooklyn borough of New York City on December 4, 1969.ġ995–1997: Reasonable Doubt and In My Lifetime, Vol.

He is widely regarded as one of the most influential hip-hop artists in history, and often cited as one of the greatest rappers of all time. Shawn Corey Carter has known professionally as Jay-Z is an American rapper, songwriter, record executive, businessman, and media proprietor.
