The Jay-Z
«Lord forgive me I never would've made it without sin» from Jay-Z - Free Mason
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Roc Nation is another venture of his. Jay-Z signed an agreement with Live Nation and new joint venture was set up. It was a move in which the anarchy was revealed, the anarchy in music business. Jay-Z planned to depart Def Jam record label for the package of 150 million dollars offered by Live Nation. They were going to finance the venture of his Jay-Z's recordings and even the tours for the ten-year period. Jay-Z was not satisfied with the policu of Def Jem.
Jay-Z is an embodiment of the American rap dream. His path from rags to riches started in the Marcy Houses, the public housing in US, which is administered by the state to support poor people. The complex located in the neighborhood of Brooklyn has 27 houses, where over four thousand tenants live. By the way, another rapper Memphis Bleek, the long timed friend of Jay-Z and protégé too, also lived in Marcy. Jay-Z attended the state-funded school where he studied together with another prominent rapper Christopher Wallace known as notorious B.I.G. Jay-Z always liked what he did. From the childhood he used to wake up his family at night banging on the table in the kitchen beating the rhyme. Seeing his profound interest to music, his mother presented him with the boom box for a birthday. This aroused his interest even more. At this time the first improvised compositions of Jay-Z appear and he begins creating freestyle rap. He studies music and songs popular with people at that time and also writes his own lyrics.
Jay-Z grew in a rough district and became a good hustler, investing into his independent records. The records were gathered by his parents, this was their hobby and Jay-Z started writing rhymes of his own. Thanks to peculiarities of his childhood Jay-Z developed excellent qualities and skills that not so many people can possess. For instance, he could devise the whole rhyme without writing it down and keeping it in the memory. He is still able to do it. This essential feature of his is known. It can be just completely in his head and only when the eventual record is planned, he writes the rhymes down just on the spot before the recording process.