Jay-Z built his billion-dollar empire through a handful of business endeavors after breaking into the music industry in the 1990s. Born Shawn Carter, the "Renegade" rapper became hip-hop's first ...

If y’all are wondering where he got the name Jay-Z from, he got it from his mentor Jaz-O. Jay can be heard in many of Jaz’s early songs in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Jay-Z’s name ...