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(Photo by Johnny Nunez/WireImage) Dame Dash Continues His War Against Jay-Z After He Was Dissed During Roots Picnic Freestyle
Dame Dash trashes his former friend and business partner Jay-Z for his latest Roots Picnic Freestyle, dissing him and Drake in the process.
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(Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue) Jay-Z Is Associated With East Coast Hip-Hop, but He Helped Establish the West Coast Sound With One Pivotal Hit
Jay-Z is arguably the greatest rapper to ever come out of New York. However, you might not know that he’s pivotal to West Coast history, too.
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(Photo by Taylor Hill/Getty Images for Live Nation Urban) Tyler, The Creator Recalls Turning Down Jay-Z When He Wanted to Sign Odd Future
Tyler, The Creator recalls turning down Jay-Z’s offer to sign Odd Future to Roc Nation in favor of maintaining his independence.
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Photo by Ethan Miller/WireImage Dame Dash and Bobby Shmurda Clown ‘Goofy’ Jay-Z After His Diss Freestyle at the Roots Picnic
Jay-Z’s big Roots Festival diss freestyle has had a lot of people talking, with Bobby Shmurda joking that the NY rapper thinks he’s in ‘NWA’.
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Photo by Dave Benett/Getty Images Jay-Z Was the Reason Pharrell Got To Work on an Iconic 2000s Pop Track
Pharrell recalls how hanging out with Jay-Z at a club was the inciting moment that eventually led to him working with Britney Spears in 2001.
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Photo by Cindy Ord/MG26/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue Jay-Z Says He Had To Have a ‘Naïve’ Mindset While Making His Debut Album
Jay-Z explains the thought process behind his classic album ‘Reasonable Doubt’.
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Photo by George Pimentel/WireImage This Classic Jay-Z Record Was ‘The Most Difficult Album’ He Ever Made
Out of all the great albums throughout his career, you wouldn’t expect this Jay-Z record to be the ‘most difficult album that I’ve ever made.’
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Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Roc Nation Pusha T Says Jay-Z Gave The World a Rap Culture ‘Tutorial’ His Entire Career, Making Him The Greatest Songwriter of All Time
In a list compiling the greatest living American songwriters, Pusha T staked his claim, arguing that Jay-Z fit the bill.
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(Photo by Astrida Valigorsky/Getty Images) J. Cole Opens up About the Pressure He Felt As Jay-Z’s Protégé: ‘I Wanna Be LeBron and Not Kwame!’
J. Cole opens up in a throwback interview about the ‘good pressure’ he felt signing under Jay-Z and his Roc Nation label.
