NEW FOUND SUCCESS IN MUSIC

Sure enough, Jay-Z left his shady past behind him and built a commercial hip-hop empire unparalleled by anyone else. This empire encompassed music, film, liquor, and a clothing company. He later expanded his empire to basketball shoes, the Brooklyn Nets NBA Basketball team, a 4-star restaurant and Night Club in New York, and helped launch the careers of other artists such as Kanye West and Rihanna.

Jay-Z’s number one selling album, Blueprint 3, has an interesting history to it. Jay-Z bought back the rights to a future album, soon to be Blueprint 3, from the Def Jam record label. All 60 minutes and 44 seconds of this album were recorded on an iPod, an iPod he lost on the plane back from Hawaii. Luckily his music was not bootlegged and his work paid off as Blueprint 3 became his best-selling album selling 476,000 copies in the first week.