Shawn “JAY-Z” Carter is widely known as the best rapper alive. Back in 2003, on what was supposed to be his retirement album, the Brooklyn-born emcee rapped, “Never been a n**ga this good for this ...

On this date at the turn of the millennium, Jay-Z and his Rocafella cohorts released the only crew album of his career, The Dynasty: Roc La Familia. Along with Memphis Bleek and the State Property ...

Jay-Z went for more soulful productions en route to this album with songs from Kanye West, the Neptunes and Just Blaze, serving as a bit of a blueprint for his next and greatest album, “The Blueprint.

While nobody could have truly predicted just how far JAY-Z would take his career and Hip Hop as a whole, the crumbs of what would become his rise to power lay in his first-ever body of work. Decades ...