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| Born | December 4, 1969 (age 55) Brooklyn, New York City, New York, U.S. |
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| Years active | 1988-present |
| Occupation(s) | Rapper, singer, songwriter, musician |
| Genre | Hip-hop, rap, pop |
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Shawn Corey Carter (born December 4, 1969), better known professionally as Jay-Z, is an American rapper, singer, musician and songwriter who performs the genres of hip-hop, rap and pop. Since he became active in 1988, he's released a total of thirteen studio albums, including Reasonable Doubt (1996), In My Lifetime, Vol. 1 (1997), Vol. 2...Hard Knock Life (1998), Vol. 3... Life and Times of S. Carter (1999), The Dynasty: Roc La Familia (2000), Blueprint (2001), The Blueprint 2: The Gift & The Curse (2002), The Black Album (2003), Kingdom Come (2006), American Gangster (2007), The Blueprint 3 (2009), Magna Carta... Holy Grail (2013), and 4:44 (2017), five collaboration albums, which included The Best of Both Worlds, (2002 with R. Kelly), Unfinished Business (2004) (with R. Kelly and Eazy-E), Collision Course (2004) (with Willie Nelson), Watch the Throne (2011 with the Notorious B.I.G.), and Everything Is Love (2018) (with Beyoncé and Tupac Shakur), two live albums, which were Jay-Z: Unplugged (2002), and Live in Brooklyn (2012), five compilation albums, which are Chapter One: Greatest Hits (2002), Blueprints 2.1 (2003), Bring It On: The Best of Jay-Z (2003), Greatest Hits (2006), and Jay-Z: The Hits Collection, Volume One (2010), one soundtrack album, Streets Is Watching (1998), and one mixtape, S. Carter Collection (2003).