| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations (chiefly color). |
| Series |
USA today lifeline biographies |
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USA today lifeline biographies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes discography bibliographical references and index. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Summary |
As USA TODAY, the Nation's No. 1 Newspaper, puts it, "anyone who has followed Jay-Z's career knows [that] the superstar born Shawn Corey Carter has long defied anyone who tried to pigeonhole him." He left behind the dangerous life of a drug dealer and became one of the biggest names in music. He then achieved success as a businessman, an activist, and an author, while staying true to the spirit of hip-hop. Raised in Brooklyn, New York, Jay-Z grew up in a household full of music lovers. After hearing people rap for the first time, he also discovered the creative fire within himself. He began to make up rhymes nonstop'and made his way from financial hardship to the throne of a music empire. |
| Subject |
Jay-Z, 1969- -- Juvenile literature.
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Biography of Shawn Corey Carter, known as Jay-Z.
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Rap musicians -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
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JUVENILE NONFICTION -- Biography & Autobiography -- Science & Technology.
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JUVENILE NONFICTION -- Music -- Rap & Hip Hop.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gordon, Stephen G. Jay-Z. Minneapolis : Twenty-First Century Books, 2013 9781467708111 (DLC) 2012020993 (OCoLC)794624728 |
| ISBN |
9781467710619 (electronic bk.) |
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146771061X (electronic bk.) |
| Music No. |
EB00270240 Recorded Books |
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