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Jay-Z

Jay-Z is the stage name of Shawn Corey Carter, a rapper and executive born in Brooklyn in 1969 and raised in the Marcy Houses. He co-founded Roc-A-Fella Records in 1994, launched Roc Nation in 2008 and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2021; 4:44 (2017) is his most recent solo album. In July 2026 he played three nights at Yankee Stadium to mark 30 years of Reasonable Doubt and 25 of The Blueprint.

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Close-up of Jay-Z, with close-cropped hair, wearing a dark quilted jacket over a black T-shirt
Photo: Joella Marano, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons