Lady Jane DJ has always adored Jay-Z as an artist. His song "Can I Get a What", still gets me pumped and the crowd pumped everytime I drop it! This Seattle Hip Hop DJ feels that this article published by Fortune on Jay-Z is a must read for eveyone.
Excerpt: "America's Hippest CEO
Rapper and entrepreneur Jay-Z (a.k.a. Shawn Carter) brings his own style to the corner office at Def Jam.
By Nadira A. Hira
The fans are loving it. On a warm Sunday evening in June, one of hip-hops hottest stars, Kanye West, is spitting rhymes for 50,000 fans at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. West is a bona fide superstar: three Grammys for his first album, millions in sales, a Time cover in the works. But all of a sudden, the crowd turns away from him. A single figure has run onto the stage, prompting such a deafening roar that West is forced to stop and join the adulation, leading the crowd in a chant of Hova! Hova! shorthand for J-Hova, the latest self-styled nickname of the rapper Jay-Z. Though West is the headliner, it is Jay-Z who steals the show.
The next morning at 9:30 a.m., at the Midtown Manhattan offices of Def Jam Recordings, which distributes Kanye Wests music, Jay-Zs weekend appearance is all the buzz. Two dozen staffers, gathered for their weekly meeting in the 28th-floor conference room, gossip about the god-worship. Yet when their boss strides in, fresh from his regular 8 a.m. briefing, he calmly rifles through the agenda-planning, budgets, promotional deals-ignoring the Giants Stadium frenzy. Which is a little odd, given that the boss is a man named Shawn Carter-better known as Jay-Z himself."
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