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Shawn Corey Carter is a high-school dropout from a housing project in Brooklyn, New York. Rapper Jay-Z is an enormously successful award-winning musician, businessman, and entrepreneur with a multi-million-dollar empire. This book charts that journey, from Shawn's life growing up in the projects and his years dealing drugs to survive, to his introduction to the world of rap. It describes Jay-Z's earliest work through his career as an artist, his retirement from performing, his career as a recording executive, and his return to music.

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9781420501582

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Review: Jay-Z Like the other titles in Lucent's People in the News series, the text is based on primary sources that are well documented through footnotes, making the process of constructing the biography transparent for readers. Well-researched and presented. Recommended for high school libraries.--Reference Unbound, February 2010

Review: Jay-Z Like the other titles in Lucent's People in the News series, the text is based on primary sources that are well documented through footnotes, making the process of constructing the biography transparent for readers. Well-researched and presented. Recommended for high school libraries. --Reference Unbound, February 2010

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