People in the News

Shawn Corey Carter is a high-school dropout from a housing project in Brooklyn, New York. Rapper Jay-Z is an enormously successful award-winning musician, businessman, and entrepreneur with a multi-million-dollar empire. This book charts that journey, from Shawn''s life growing up in the projects and his years dealing drugs to survive, to his introduction to the world of rap. It describes Jay-Z''s earliest work through his career as an artist, his retirement from performing, his career as a recording executive, and his return to music.