![]() and Busta Rhymes - and engages in a rhyme battle with the latter. Jay-Z attends Westinghouse High School along with Christopher Wallace and Trevor Smith - later known as the Notorious B.I.G. Jaz records a song with Jay-Z and two other MCs under the name High Potent MCs and the four rhymers record a song entitled "HP Gets Busy," which garners minimal airplay and success. Eventually the two meet and after rhyming for each other decide to join forces and write rhyme routines together, often hanging out for hours at a time at each other's apartments. His reputation as an MC with a rapid-fire tongue-twisting style begins to spread through his neighbourhood and reaches Jaz, an older respected neighbourhood MC who also lived in Marcy projects. ![]() ![]() Eventually he shortens his nickname to Jay-Z, reputedly after the J and Z train lines that run through his Brooklyn neighbourhood. Shawn shoots and injures his older brother Eric in the shoulder when he steals a two-finger piece of jewellery from him. Shawn becomes known as "Jazzy" in his neighbourhood because of his cool demeanour. He becomes more introverted, developing an outward air of indifference to shield him from emotional pain. Shawn's father leaves when he's 12 years old, which has a devastating impact. He often stays up late at night banging on the table rhyming to himself his mother responds by buying him a boom box. He begins to practicing rapping, looking through dictionaries to expand his vocabulary and writing rhymes in a green notebook in an indecipherable style so that no one would be able to take his rhymes. Shawn is studying at a grade 12 level in the sixth grade. He often plays basketball with friends during the day and at school. He looks up to his father, who would often challenge him to independently use his sense of direction to find his way home. Along with his two sisters and brother Eric, he moves with his family to the Marcy housing projects in Brooklyn at around the age of six. He first gains recognition in his neighbourhood for learning to ride a bike without training wheels at age four. Shawn Corey Carter is born to Gloria Carter and Adnes "AJ" Reeves on Decemin Brooklyn. It's as if in his defence, Jay-Z is referring naysayers to The Blueprint's imperiously infamous query, "Do you fools listen to music, or do you just skim through it?" Truth be told, Jay-Z's subsequent albums have always found plenty of room to indulge the lyrical complexity, shrewd wordplay and his underrated, yet vivid storytelling ability that made his first full-length so compelling in the first place. Jay-Z's most critically acclaimed entry in his oeuvre, his seminal debut Reasonable Doubt, is tellingly among the least commercially successful of his albums and apparently his own personal favourite. As compelling as this evidence may seem, it's hardly a slam-dunk case. "I dumb down for my audience / And double my dollars," he admitted on his faux farewell, The Black Album. Indeed, the hustler-turned-MC has been routinely charged with catering to the lowest common denominator for capital gain and reifying problematic tropes into a bling-encrusted string of unavoidable hit singles. It's an unorthodox process that explains Jay-Z's staggeringly prolific and rapid-fire creative output, but gives little insight into content. After all, he does not write down any of his lyrics instead, he often nods his head repeatedly to a beat, silently mouthing words to himself until he has created and memorized an entire song and then steps into a recording booth. His rhyming ability comes seemingly effortlessly to him. In Season One, you’ll meet Ray Trapani – a 26-year-old whose schemes targeted pharmacies and a payment app before he created his biggest con yet: a tech startup endorsed by DJ Khaled and Floyd Mayweather that was built on empty promises, fake executives, and millions of dollars from unsuspecting investors.Despite the fact that he's Beyonce's husband, a former CEO of Def Jam Records and a part owner of the New Jersey Nets, the most valuable and core asset of the ubiquitous brand that is Jay-Z is his undeniable prowess as an MC. Their schemes may be new, but their tactics are tried and true. ![]() We are excited to let you know that ALL episodes of Creating a Con: The Story of Bitconned are available and 100% Ad Free exclusively with an iHeart True Crime+ subscription on Apple Podcasts, so you can binge the entire season! Go to Apple Podcasts and search for iHeart True Crime+ and subscribe today! " Episodes will be premiering free to listeners starting Wednesday, April 3rd, on the iHeartRadio App, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.Ĭreating a Con is a true crime anthology podcast that goes inside the minds of the most prolific modern-day con artist. ***The full first season will be available on iHeartRadio until *** ![]()
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