Jay Z

Shawn Corey Carter (born December 4, 1969), known by his stage name Jay Z (formerly Jay-Z), is an American rapper, record producer, entrepreneur, and investor. He is one of the most financially successful hip hop artists and entrepreneurs in America. In 2014, Forbes estimated Jay Z's net worth at nearly $520 million. He is one of the world's best-selling artists of all time, having sold more than 100 million records, while receiving 21 Grammy Awards for his musical work, and numerous additional nominations. Consistently ranked as one of the greatest rappers ever, he was ranked number one by MTV in their list of The Greatest MCs of All-Time in 2006. Three of his albums, Reasonable Doubt (1996), The Blueprint (2001), and The Black Album (2003), are considered landmarks in the genre with all of them featured in Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

As an entrepreneur and investor, Jay Z co-owns the 40/40 Club, and is the co-creator of the clothing line Rocawear. He is the former president of Def Jam Recordings, co-founder of Roc-A-Fella Records, and the founder of Roc Nation. He also founded the sports agency Roc Nation Sports and is a certified NBA and MLB sports agent. As an artist, he holds the record for most number one albums by a solo artist on the Billboard 200 with 13. Jay Z also has had four number ones on the Billboard Hot 100, one as lead artist. On December 11, 2009, Jay Z was ranked as the tenth-most successful artist of the 2000s by Billboard as well as the fifth top solo male artist and fourth top rapper behind Eminem, Nelly, and 50 Cent. He was also ranked the 88th greatest artist of all time by Rolling Stone.

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Famous quotes by Jay-Z:

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

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

"Can I live?"

"No matter where you go, you are what you are playa"

"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."

"It was a weird mix of emotions. One day, your best friend could be killed. The day before, you could be celebrating him getting a brand-new bike."

"Racism is taught in the home. We agree on that? Well, it's very hard to teach racism to a teenager who's listening to rap music and who idolizes, say, Snoop Dogg. It's hard to say, 'That guy is less than you.' The kid is like, 'I like that guy, he's cool. How is he less than me?"

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

"Hip-hop is more about attaining wealth. People respect success. They respect big. They don't even have to like your music. If you're big enough, people are drawn to you."

"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."

"I think relationships are broken up because of the media."

"One of the reasons inequality gets so deep in this country is that everyone wants to be rich. That's the American ideal. Poor people don't like talking about poverty because even though they might live in the projects surrounded by other poor people and have, like, ten dollars in the bank, they don't like to think of themselves as poor."

"My thing is related to who I am as a person. The clothes are an extension of me. The music is an extension of me. All my businesses are part of the culture, so I have to stay true to whatever I'm feeling at the time, whatever direction I'm heading in. And hopefully, everyone follows."

"I would run into the corner store, the bodega, and just grab a paper bag or buy juice - anything just to get a paper bag. And I'd write the words on the paper bag and stuff these ideas in my pocket until I got back. Then I would transfer them into the notebook."

"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."

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‘I’m a Blue Jay forever’: Vladimir Guerrero Jr. returns to Toronto to sign historic $500 million contract

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Orioles' big bats rally past Blue Jays, Anthony Santander

Henry Herald 13 Apr 2025

Heston Kjerstad and Adley Rutschman homered to help the Baltimore Orioles rally for a 5-4 win against the visiting Toronto Blue Jays on Saturday afternoon in the opener of a rain-shortened two-game series ... .

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Jays' Santander homers in return to Baltimore

ESPN 13 Apr 2025

Anthony Santander returned to Camden Yards on Saturday and finally homered for the Blue Jays ... .

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Anthony Santander homers in his return to Camden Yards, his first HR for the Blue Jays

The Porterville Recorder 13 Apr 2025

BALTIMORE (AP) — Anthony Santander finally homered for the Toronto Blue Jays ... .

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Cedric Mullins, Orioles eye sweep of shortened series with Jays

Gwinnett Daily Post 13 Apr 2025

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Fionnuala Jay: ‘I have to move places to live three times in three years. The lack of security was a nightmare

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Mullins leads Orioles in 5-4 win vs. Blue Jays

The Brunswick News 13 Apr 2025

BALTIMORE — The Orioles’ offense was backed into a corner. Entering the fifth inning Thursday, their lineup had yet to produce a base runner against starter Bowden Francis with the Toronto Blue Jays leading 3-0. They had gone 15 consecutive ... .

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Jay Clarence Greider

Lancaster Online 13 Apr 2025

Jay Clarence Greider, of Mount Joy, went to be with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ the evening of April 7, 2025. He was 88 years old. The son of the late Clarence and Viola Greider, Jay was born on ... .

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