Jay-Z is the first celebrity to be accused of sexual abuse in connection with Combs
He has 14 number 1 albums, 22 Grammys (the most in hip hop history), is the first billionaire artist of the hip-hop scene, and has sold more than 50 million albums in total. album and 75 million single worldwide. Jay-Z has stated that the secret of his successful marriage with Beyonce is the fact that they keep their personal lives out of the public eye.
And today, Monday, December 9, 2024, the bomb “exploded”. the rapper is accused of raping a 13-year-old girlalong with his friend Sean “Diddy” Combs. He denies any accusation and speaks of extortion.
Who is Jay-Z?
Jay-Z, better known as Shawn Corey Carter, is one of the most successful rappers in the world. He has sold millions of albums, won 22 Grammys and has more number one albums than any other solo artist on the US Billboard chart. The 55-year-old is also a highly successful businessman. And yes, he is married to Beyonce Knowles, the top pop star of the 21st century, who was recently dethroned by Taylor Swift.
The rapper has graced the cover of “Forbes” magazine together with Warren Buffett, the third richest man in the world. Not bad for a lad who started his professional life at the age of 12 selling crack.
“No one calls me Shawn except my grandma”he had revealed himself in an earlier interview. He got the nickname “Jay-Z” from Jazzy and the Brooklyn subway J/Z when he was a kid rapping at his mother’s kitchen table. He was a bright boy who lost his way at the age of 11 when his father abandoned the family. It was the 1980s, drugs were everywhere in Brooklyn… His older brother, Eric, was addicted to crack. Young Shawn couldn’t escape. He joined a gang and started selling the same drug.
Was he aware that he was surviving by destroying people like his brother and father? “No! It is excluded. You just think people are buying your services and it’s so normal, you just think you’re growing up. It’s everywhere. The smell, the stench, the people had lost their sense of pride… The despair.” At that time, he has said, children became parents and parents became children. He found himself supporting his family, even by working on the streets.
“In the past, when our elders told us something, you had to listen to them. But now we were in power because the people who were supposed to be our support system were taking drugs and saying, “I’ll do anything to get it.” So we were like elders in the village, with a whole community taking drugs. There was no one to police us. And we were out of control. Even when I made terrible decisions, I made them out of desperation, not ignorance. I felt like I was in a survival of the fittest situation.” These are the words of Jay-Z…
Crack and music
During his 14 years on the streets, he never touched crack. There was, he said, a strict code among successful con artists: “Don’t masturbate from your own supply.”
Of course, that doesn’t mean he didn’t get into trouble. At 12, he shot his older brother Eric in the shoulder for stealing his ring. Jay-Z has written about the incident in song “You Must Love Me” (“Saw the devil in your eyes, high off more than weed, confused, I just closed my young eyes and squeezed, what a sound, opened my eyes just in time to see ya stumbling to the ground”), but he hasn’t spoken never publicly about it before.
After the shooting, the rapper believed he would spend the rest of his life in prison, however his brother never filed a lawsuit and the story was forgotten. As long as he was trading, he dreamed of a career as a rapper. The problem was, he could never hope to make that much money from rapping.
In 1992, he released his first single but was still selling drugs. He sometimes told his mother that he made the money from music, but she knew better. For four years after the first single, he held down two jobs. It wasn’t until he made his first album in 1996 that he became a full-time musician. “I officially quit during the recording process of Reasonable Doubt. I was trying to stick to two disciplines and I said, I’m going to give it all to music, to make a legitimate life for myself. I never went back.”
Much of Jay-Z’s later music is about his early experiences—the deals, the danger, the broken lives. Many of his songs are cinematic – character driven with detailed and sometimes complex narratives. In fact, in many of his songs, he seems to be looking for an understanding of the past, even repentance.
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Love with Beyonce
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In 1999, Jay-Z almost lost everything. He got into a fight at a night club. No one was seriously injured, but two years later he was sentenced to three years of probation for stabbing record producer Lance Rivera.
After collaborating with Beyonce in 2002, on the song “03 Bonnie And Clyde”they started a relationship and in 2008 they got married. The rapper admitted in 2017 that he had been unfaithful in his relationship with the artist. The scenarios started in 2014 when a video of Solange Knowles cursing and attacking Jay-Z in an elevator was released. In 2016, Beyonce reignited the rumors when on her music album ‘Lemonade’, she referred to her husband’s infidelity through lyrics such as ‘Becky with the good hair’.
“A lot of men don’t prepare emotionally when we’re young. They tell us, “Act like a man, don’t cry!”. I want to have the emotional tools needed to keep my family together,” the rapper revealed in an interview, adding that “he has a beautiful, understanding wife who knows I’m better than the bad things I’ve done.”
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The rape charges
A woman who claims she was sexually abused by Sean “Diddy” Combsamended her lawsuit to include allegations that she was also the victim of abuse by Jay-Z (Shawn Carter) at the same event. The lawsuit was originally filed against Combs last October, but the woman on Sunday, Dec. 8, 2024, added Shawn Carter, the rapper and businessman known as Jay-Z, as a defendant in the civil suit. Carter is the first celebrity to be accused of sexual abuse in connection with Combs. He denies the specific accusation and speaks of extortion.
Combs was charged with human trafficking, racketeering conspiracy and prostitution-related charges. Combs has pleaded not guilty to the charges and has denied any wrongdoing in about 30 civil lawsuits filed against him.
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