Know, it is almost improbable. Too similar on a fairy tale, on a notorious myth about the American dream – the small bug earning the dishonest cache in the street becomes the present star, the successful businessman, earns first million, behind it one more, and still, becomes accepted in bohemian circles, in general, changes to unrecognizability. Not suddenly, differently there would be full Hollywood. And nevertheless – who would predict fourteen years ago such metamorphosis, having listened in the 1996 first opuses of the young man from Brooklyn reading a rap in breaks between drug traffic?

The official biography says that Sean Carter (Shawn Carter) was born and has grown in a quarter Marcy, Brooklyn, New York where reigned rather and rather rigid customs. The teenager grew without the father and carried sobriquet Jazzy which (agree, to the abrupt rapper not to the person such ridiculous nickname) and has outgrown in due course in more original Jay-Z. Among the first teachers Jay-Z rapper Jaz-O strong forgotten partially today, it Big Jaz is registered. Group Original Flavor was a command in which Jigga did the first steps. But to talent of Dzheja it was close within the limits of group.

The young gentleman of good luck had trumps – a bright voice, a brisk syllable, sober mind. When the first album hasn't managed to open the way to owners of leading sound recording labels, it was accepted ñîëîìîíîâî decision – to base the. The company organizations that has become famous under name Roc-A-Fella Records, the big role were played by Sean Carter, Damon Desh's friends (Damon Dash) and Brown Burk (Kareem «Biggs» Burke), guys more skilled and become skilled in such affairs.
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