9 Things You Might Not Know About Jay-Z

I did this for Nas yesterday, and I thought I would do the same for Jay-Z. So, below are 9 things you might not know about Jay-Z.

9.  Reasonable Doubt was originally titled Heir To The Throne.





8.  He wanted "Heart Of The City" to be first single of The Blueprint.

7.  His father died the same night he celebrated the opening of the 40/40 club.

6.  He used to carry a gun in an empty VHS box in his hustling days.

5.  In the early days of the roc, Jay and Damon Dash would rent limos and put rocafella license plates on them.

4.  He has two sisters, one of whom is reportedly a correctional officer at Rikers Island.


3.  Kanye West gave him the idea to make the D.O.A (Death Of Auto-tune) song.


2.  He does one-take in the boot because he memorizes all his verses. He carries full songs in his head, and drops them with one take when he gets into the recording boot.


1.  He is an addict of freestyle battle videos of rappers on youtube, even if the the rappers are unknown. His studio manager, Young Guru said- .’ Jay watches all of them. I mean all of them. Every battle that has ever been on.

“Jay watches these dudes freestyle on YouTube. Like, if you’re a battle MC from Philly, you may not have been in a battle but you just get on YouTube and start rapping, Jay watches those religiously. It’s just the weirdest thing in the world but he really loves it to the point where I’m like, ‘Yo, turn it off.’”