Jay Electronica has released his very long-awaited album A Written Testimony, which had a lot of Jay-Z‘s presence. The night before the album released, Jay Electronica went live on Instagram for his album release livestream after his listening parties, hosted by Tidal, were canceled due to Coronavirus concerns. On live he revealed that the album’s final track,

Jay-Z and Kanye West once performed “N*ggas in Paris” from their collaboration album “Watch the Throne” 12 times in a row at a concert in Paris. On December 12, 2011 at the Staples Center in LA, Jay-Z and Kanye performed the song a total of 9 times, the second night at the Staples center the duo performed the

In a 2010 interview with Interview Magazine, Jay-Z revealed that in 2003, Eminem wore a bulletproof vest to the studio when he collaborated with Jay-Z on ‘Moment of Clarity’, which he produced on The Black Album. “I never even told him this, but I remember that Eminem came into the studio when we made ‘Moment

According to Empire’s co-creator Danny Strong, they based the hit TV series’ fictional character Lucious Lyon loosely on billionaire Jay Z. The show pulls from Jay Z’s past criminal life and his rise to stardom through hip-hop and the music industry. Danny Strong revealed this in an interview with Sway on Sway in the Morning

In order to clear the sample for his smash hit “Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)” which was produced by The 45 King, Jay-Z lied to the Annie original songwriters, Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin in a letter talking about how much the TV version of Annie meant to him growing up because he had won an essay-writing contest

Jay-Z released his sixth studio album “The Blueprint” the same day the tragic event 9/11 happened in New York City on September 11, 2001. Jay Z donated $1 from every ticket sold on The Blueprint album tour to relief groups. The album sold over 426,000 copies first week.

In June 2017, Shawn Carter—also known as—Jay-Z became the first rapper to be accepted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, joining the likes of John Lennon, Elton John, David Bowie, and James Brown—among many more. Songwriters become eligible for the Hall of Fame when they’ve released numerous hit songs over a span of 20 years minimum. Jay

Pusha T originally had the beat for Jay Z and Kanye West‘s “N*ggas In Paris” first but he passed on it. The beat was produced by Hit-Boy. In an interview with AskMen, Pusha T’s manager Steven Victor detailed Pusha’s reaction when he first got the beat, “Pusha said, ‘It sounds like a video game. Get

Jay-Z’s 1996 debut album Reasonable Doubt was originally titled Heir To The Throne. Photographer and film director, Jonathan Mannion, who shot the cover art for Jay Z’s debut album Reasonable Doubt, revealed Jay-Z originally planned on calling his debut album Heir To The Throne. “Originally, that album was going to be called Heir To The Throne. So I had

Casey Veggies’ father, Joe Jones, was Jay Z’s Security Guard. While Roc Nation management client, Casey Veggies was growing up, his father was Jay-Z and Dame Dash’s personal bodyguard. Casey Veggies spoke about his dad being Jay-Z’s former bodyguard in a 2013 interview with The Hundreds: “It was something that he didn’t really tell me ’til later on

Takes a hustler to know another one. On October 8, 2013, the late Nipsey Hussle released his mixtape Crenshaw, which was priced at $100 for a physical copy and free to just listen and download online. Nipsey only printed 1,000 limited copies with a campaign called “Proud to Pay,” which was a campaign for real fans

Shawn Carter Aka Jay-Z in his Reasonable Doubt-era ghost-wrote the Space Jam soundtrack’s last song, Bugs Bunny’s rap song “Buggin’.” Jay Z first appeared on the soundtrack which released on November 12, 1996 when he was featured on R. Kelly’s “All My Days” with Changing Faces, but little do people know Jay Z wrote Bugs Bunny’s