Empire State of Mind
How Jay Z Went from Street Corner to Corner Office
About the book
Zack O'Malley Greenburg's biography of Jay Z tells how the rapper rose from the streets of Brooklyn to the top of the business world, through the accounts of people who lived it with him. They include classmates from George Westinghouse High School, the childhood friend who brought him into the drug trade and the DJ who talked him into giving up dealing for music. Greenburg gathered more than one hundred interviews, with figures such as Russell Simmons, Damon Dash, Alicia Keys, Fab Five Freddy and J. Cole. Jay Z has made himself into a lifestyle and profits from ventures ranging from Rocawear jeans and the 40/40 Club to D'Ussé cognac and the streaming service Tidal.
Ryan Holiday put it on his list of biographies as an unofficial life of Jay Z that doubles as a business book, showing how he brought hustling techniques into the music business to build his empire.
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Ryan Holiday (Founder/Brass Check)
Just because I didn’t want this list to be all stuffy old classics, I thought I’d put this interesting (and unofficial) biography of Jay-Z on here. This is a biography that also functions as a business book. It shows how Jay applied hustling techniques to the music business and eventually built his empire.
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