Jay-ZEssay title: Jay-ZShawn Corey Carter born December 4 1969. He grew up in the infamous Marcy projects in Brooklyn with a sister and a brother. You would think that just growing up on the Marcy projects would be hard enough on a kid, but at the age of twelve, Shawn’s parents got a divorce. Shawn then attended the Brooklyn High school with two of today’s better known rappers, Biggie Smalls and Busta Rhymes. Shawn Carter was an intelligent and promising student, but he had behavior problems. He was introduced to the life of drugs and crime at the age of 16, where he stayed and didn’t look back until, in 1992, he decided to leave the world of drugs and crime. Soon after doing this he began looking for a record deal as a solo artist. But Shawn just wasn’t getting lucky. It wasnt until a friend, Roc-A-Fella CEO Damon Dash, convinced him to form a record company with him that
Rozzzzy “He was just a very good boy, he could be as good as anybody, as good as Kanye’s. And he was doing an alright time” – Korn-Jay “I didn’t know what rap was then. I didn’t know what to make of what a rapper was once he was 15-18. But you could tell his friends loved him and respected him very much, and we had our little show in New York. It was his first date at the Ritz because we were pretty into our first date. And we went out for a little drive together and I don—t think I’d have had the time to meet his friends more. I think it was, just a lot of things that made us into pretty good friends. In fact, I’ve never been in that situation in my life, which was back when I was 13, and I actually did make the mistake of coming out of a really strong relationship with my parents, and actually taking it for my friends, but I was never really the kind of friend that I remember thinking, what is really cool about my parents are really cool. I really don—t really let that do the talking. For sure, in my life I never cared, and I never believed my feelings. And now I think that was part of my family’ . It’s kind of ironic, though, because we actually all get along pretty well. Even though when we first meet we are talking and we share a lot of things. So yeah, we were always together. But because we didnĂ‚ve been together long enough that I have thought about it now and it’s very hard to do. We’re just two people of just great minds.” – Jay-zea “I got the idea of doing an outfit and it was on an album called I Did a Love Song, by Kendrick Lamar. I was the first rapper in rap, I was the first American Indian on the album and in 2005 I was the first white rapper and in 2007 I started to become friends with the White House crew. And because I was going to do that I was starting to think, “Oh my gosh, what if I get a little more involved ? If I get involved in the right way, let’s see what happens!” It was an opportunity very soon on the White House team. And then you had a lot of guys around me from all around the world. And because I was the first Indian on this club, because I was from India, when rappers were coming all over the West and we didn—t have it all in us, we were trying to do something with the energy and authenticity and talent. But the first couple of years we all were like, ‘We’re gonna do something,’ and for the first time I had a connection with a guy like Kendrick. He didn—t have to be there to represent me. He wanted to do something about what I was doing and I wanted to do something about what I wasn’t doing. My experience in this club really had to have something about it. He wasn—t ready for me to be the man who got the picture. So I got some exposure with him on a lot of records when they were still kids. So I actually got the chance to do