American rapper, record producer, and entrepreneur, Jay-Z is one of the most fisuccessful hip-hop artists and entrepreneurs in America.He is one of the world’s best-selling artists of all time having sold more than 75 million records, while receiving 17 Grammy Awards for his musical work, and numerous additional nominations. Consistently ranked as one of the greatest rappers of all time, he was ranked number one by MTV in their list of The Greatest MCs of All-Time in 2006. Three of his albums, Reasonable Doubt (1996), The Blueprint (2001), and The Black Album (2003), are considered landmarks in the genre with all of them featured in Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. He holds the record for most number one albums by a solo artist on the Billboard 200 with 13 Jay-Z also has had four number ones on the Billboard Hot 100, one as lead artist. During the 2013 NBA Finals, Carter announced that his twelfth studio album would be titled, Magna Carta… Holy Grail and would be released in July 2013. He has been in the studio with various artists such as Drake, Nas, and Justin Timberlake working on the album. In December 2013, it was announced that Jay-Z had received nine nominations at the 2014 Grammy Awards, more than any other artist. Jay-Z appeared on his wife Beyonce’s self-titled fifth studio album, Beyoncé, with a feature on the popular song Drunk in Love. They performed this song together at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards opening.
