Profile of Jay-Z

Growing up in the brooklyn projects, Shawn Carter better known by his fans as Jay-Z. The chrorus of its a hard knocked life, which was sung in the musical movie of "Annie" led to a hit single and a best album grammy award. Plus helped sell more than 4 million copies. Jay-Z admits that he did not come from Harvard. Putting the playfulness of its a hard knock life aside.Many of Jay-Z's lyrics are about drug dealimg. Jay-Z replies. "While others were getting shot up and murdered and going to jail. In my teenage years, police and rivals looked right over me because i was too quiet, but i was doing just as much as these guys, maybe even more." He claims he was shot three times and says "If the rap Buisiness didnt work, i was going right back".