Dre and Timbaland produced this epic thing, full of sincere stories from Jay-Zs hard times, while singles Big Pimpin and Do It Again (Put Ya Hands Up) became big hits. Hard Knock Life saw light and brought the first Grammy award to the rapper.īeing faithful to the one-year-one-record tradition, Jay-Z issued Vol. In 1997, the autobiographic disc In My Lifetime, Vol.īesides the hardcore tracks, the work featured pop rap - such things, as Sunshine and The City Is Mine showed that Jay-Z is not serious and brutal all the time and exposed him to a wider auditory. Having found a reputable distributor Priority Records (which later would become Def Jam, headed by Jay-Z himself), the artist recorded his debut album Reasonable Doubt in 1996. Jay-Z was the member of the hip-hop command Original Flavor for a short time, but then instead of signing to a major recording company, he decided to start his own label Roc-a-Fella Records. ![]() The colleague told to the fresher some of his experience about show business and advised what to do in order to become prominent in rap circles. ![]() Once, when Jay-Z was wondering around the streets, he accidentally ran across a rapper with small fame called Big Jaz, or Jay-O.
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