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Jay-Z was born Shawn Corey Carter on 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 wasn't until a friend, Roc-A-Fella CEO Damon Dash, convinced him to form a record company with him that Jay-Z's career finally got off the ground. Jay-Z released his first single through Roc-A-Fella in 1995, "In My......

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