Book | Jay Z: The King of America

Get your free audiobook: http://ntube.space/e/B009DP5OKO Jay-z: King Of America is the first in-depth biography focussing on the life and music of the most successful rapper of all time. Taking in all of the drug busts, beefs, knife attacks, near-death shootings, entrepreneurial brilliance, premature retirements, secret weddings and detailed accounts of all 11 albums, including the seminal classic Reasonable Doubt and the landmark Blueprint trilogy, Mark Beaumont award-winning music journalist and author of the highly praised Out Of This World: The Story Of Muse traces Jay Zs ascent to hip-hops throne and his pivotal role in forging modern rap music. This is Jay-zs hard knock life fully exposedfrom dealing on the mean streets of New York to million dollar deals at the highest echelons of music industry, Jay-zs story is a whole new kind of American Dream. Along the way he has sold 50 million records, earned half a billion dollars, become one half of musics most influential power couple and ceaselessly shattered barriers in rap music to make the genre the global crossover success it is today, and himself its biggest star.growing up in the projects of Brooklyns Bedford-stuyvesant neighbourhood, Shawn Cory Carter seemed destined for a life of crime with only the slim chance of a possible record deal offering a way out. None was forthcoming so, in true American style, he and his friends set about creating their own label Roc-a-fella Records. It gradually led to distribution deals but his eventual fame might have amounted to little more than a familiar rags-to-riches music story had the newly rechristened Jay-z had not been consumed by almost unlimited ambition. His subsequent rise to Ceo of Def Jam Records, his Rocawear clothing and accessories line, his New York club 40/40 and an alleged portfolio of investments in everything from real estate to football clubs suggest that Jay-z always had a game plan far beyond escaping from Brooklyn and cutting a few hip hop hits.nevertheless, Jay-z the musician has not been overshadowed by Jay-z the entrepreneur. If extra credibility was needed, his marriage to Beyoncé (who, if she were not a superstar in her own right might be seen as a trophy wife and thus part of the Jay-z plan) certainly supplied it. Shawn Carter aka Jay-z, The King of America, is living proof that nothing succeeds like success, and that success in the Us recognises no barriers