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American rapper Jay-Z’s hard life: Gunned down his brother, sold cocaine to survive

American rapper Jay-Z

NEW YORK-(MaraviPost)-Shawn Corey Carter, popularly known as Jay-Z is no stranger to the public. Jay-Z is a rapper, entrepreneur and a music producer.

He is usually referred to as one of the greatest rappers of all time.

Jay-Z is also the richest rapper in the world, with an estimated networth of US$1 billion dollars.

However before the fame, fortune and accolades, Jay-Z didn’t have a very easy life.

He came from Brooklyn, New York and had three other siblings. Jay-Z’s mother, Gloria Carter singlehandedly raised all four of them by herself, after their father abandoned them.

Jay-Z attended a technical education high school alongside fellow rapper Notorious B.I.G.

But he didn’t graduate because at the time he was selling crack cocaine in the streets and he was shot at three times.

Jay-Z claimed in his song that in 1982, when he was 12 years old, he shot his brother in the shoulder for stealing his jewelry.

Although all this events are in the past now.

Jay-Z’s story just goes to show that we all can rise above and beyond any unfortunate circumstance and become whatever we set our mind to.

Lloyd M’bwana
Lloyd M’bwanahttps://www.maravipost.com
I'm a Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resource (LUANAR)'s Environmental Science graduate (Malawi) and UK's ICM Journalism and Media studies scholar. Also University of Malawi (UNIMA) Library Science Scholar. I have been The Malawi Country Manager and duty editor for the Maravi Post since 2019. My duty editor’s job is to ensure that the news is covered properly, that it is delivered on time, and that it is created to the standards set out in the editorial guidelines of the Maravi Post.
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17 COMMENTS

  1. I can pawn off my own strategy off jay z lyrics the patterns r ballistic n have instinct n drive hell never die

    • And i use the tips he manages when he speaks about the effects of broken damaged n violated polocies that rule our broken fate im like a strugglin waitress livin off of rap tips

  2. True story, this dude story, isn’t a new story, I see it day to day when I’m looking at news stories. The only difference is different channels change the views for me, harness the energy God has given, it’s in your ora, just know your worth more than Adidas and Diadoras…..

  3. Is this the same group as the illuminators? The guys who go around to dark alleys and walk ways with lanterns and illuminate the way? If so where do sign up

  4. Your article is really the most hateful and fake articles I ever read. What was the point of it anyways? The title of it is disrespectful because your trying to shine the light on someone negatives in their past you must be so perfect or don’t know what it’s like to live in a rough environment. You should feel ashamed of yourself that the only thing you could write an article about is hating on another. Go get a life. You seem very miserable by the way you right.

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