Jay-Z is an American rapper and producer born in the Brooklyn neighborhood of New York on December 4, 1969. With real name Shawn Corey Carter, Jay-Z has become one of the most successful hip-hop artists, achieving Sell more than 75 million copies of their albums, obtaining 19 Grammy Awards with its record works.
As an entrepreneur he has also gained a lot of notoriety. Apart from having a capital valued at more than 500 million dollars, Jay-Z is co-owner of the NBA basketball team of the Brooklyn Nets, one of the founders of Roc-A-Fella Records and the founder of Roc Nation , Record company born of the union of Jay-Z with Live nation.
Raised in a troubled environment, Jay-Z was abandoned by his father when he was still a child and his biographers claim that in 1982 he shot his brother with a gun due to a jewelry robbery.