Jay-Z had a good start, but he wasn’t mainstream enough to be a famous star of hip-hop, so he decided to create his own label record with two of his friends called the Roc-A-Fella Records. He chose Jay Z, to thank his mentor Jaz-O, but also at his high school he used to be called “Jazzy”. After this show he needed to find a stage name. This song gave them the opportunity to go on the MTV raps show and this was the first step to glory for him. He recorded a song with him called “The Originator”. At the age of 20, Shawn met Jaz-O, who was an old performer. He thought it was a way to escape from violence, drugs and poverty. Jay-Z started to rap at a very young age.
Jay-Z went to Eli Whitney High School, in Brooklyn, where he met the well-known The Notorious B.I.G. Like he said in a lot of his autobiographical songs, Jay-Z was involved with a lot of drug deals and gun violence. At the age of 11 his father left the family, so he was raised by his mother, Gloria Carter.
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