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The American rapper, record producer, and entrepreneur Jay-Z has received numerous industry awards, nominations, and honorary accolades. Active in the music industry field since the 1990s, throughout his career he won 24 Grammy Awards, tied for the most nominations in the ceremony history with his wife Beyoncé, with 88 each. [1]
Jay-Z began his music career in the 1980s, building a reputation as a fledgling rapper in his hometown of Brooklyn and collaborating with his mentor and fellow rapper Jaz-O. [2] Jay-Z later founded Roc-A-Fella Records with close friends Damon Dash and Kareem "Biggs" Burke and released his debut studio album Reasonable Doubt in June 1996. [2]
The following is a list of songs by Jay-Z organized by alphabetical order. The songs on the list are all included in official label-released, albums , soundtracks and singles , but not white label or other non-label releases.
"Grammy Family" is the second single from DJ Khaled's debut album, Listennn... the Album. The single features and was written by Kanye West, Consequence and John Legend; Jon Brion assisted West in producing the track. As well as being featured on Khaled's album, the song appears on Consequence's album Don't Quit Your Day Job! (2007).
The music megastar has a record 32 Grammys between her solo work, her time with Destiny's Child and the album she released with Jay-Z in 2018. In 2022, she tied Jay-Z as the most nominated artist ...
[17] [18] T.I., Kanye West, Jay-Z, Lil Wayne, and M.I.A. (who was nine months pregnant at the time and supposedly due on the day of the performance) performed the song at Grammy Awards that year. This song was number 22 on Rolling Stone ' s list of the 100 Best Songs of 2008.
Royce da 5'9" and Fredro Starr of Onyx both describe Jay-Z's emphasis on flow in the book How to Rap—Starr says that Jay-Z is "a master of the flow—he can flow fast, he can flow slow". [140] The book describes how Jay-Z uses 'rests' to provide structure to a verse [141] and how he uses 'partial linking' to add more rhymes to a verse. [142]
The Blueprint is the sixth studio album by American rapper Jay-Z, released on September 11, 2001, through Roc-A-Fella Records and Def Jam Recordings.Its release was set a week earlier than initially planned in order to combat bootlegging.