Artist
Jay-Z
Jay-Z is a hip-hop artist from New York, USA formed in 1989. 69 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
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- 3.9 /5
- 14 ratings
- 69
- Releases
- 1996–2026
- Active years
- 1989
- Formed
Discography
42
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Collision Course
2004
The Black Album
2003
Reasonable Doubt
1996
The Hits Collection Volume One
2010
American Gangster
2007
Vol. 3... Life and Times of S. Carter
1999
The Blueprint
2001
The Blueprint 3
2009
Watch the Throne
2011
The Dynasty: Roc La Familia
2000
Kingdom Come
2006
Vol. 2… Hard Knock Life
1998
In My Lifetime, Vol. 1
1997
Blueprint 2.1
2016
The Blueprint (Explicit Version)
2016
The Blueprint (Edited Version)
2016
The Blueprint 2: The Gift & The Curse
2016
The Dynasty: Roc La Familia 2000
2014
Live At Coachella (2010)
2013
Magna Carta… Holy Grail
2013
Live In Brooklyn
2012
Niggas in Paris
2011
Philadelphia Freeway 2 (Collector's Edition)
2010
The Hits Collection Volume One (Edited Version)
2010
The Hits Collection Volume One (International Version Explicit)
2010
The Hits Collection, Volume 1
2010
The Blueprint Collector's Edition (Explicit Version)
2009
Live From The Hangar Tour
2007
Greatest Hits
2006
The Hits and Unreleased, Volume 2
2004
Unfinished Business
2004
- Library of a Legend
Library of a Legend
2003
'03 Bonnie & Clyde
2002
The Best of Both Worlds
2002
Chapter One
2002
Jay-Z Unplugged (Live On MTV Unplugged / 2001)
2001
Jay-Z Unplugged
2001
The Hits & Unreleased, Volume 1
2001
UnPlugged
2001
Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)
1998
Rocafella Mixtape
1997
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Singles & EPs
27
A Million And One Questions
Single · 2026
Izzo (H.O.V.A)
Single · 2026
Holy Grail
Single · 2026
Glory
Single · 2026
Who You Wit
Single · 2026
Dead Presidents
Single · 2026
Jigga My Nigga
Single · 2026
La-La-La (Excuse Me Again)
Single · 2026
99 Problems
Single · 2026
Streets Is Watching
Single · 2026
Feelin' It
Single · 2026
Song Cry
Single · 2026
Big Pimpin'
Single · 2026
Dear Summer
Single · 2026
Hey Papi
Single · 2026
NEW YORK (CONCEPT DE PARIS)
Single · 2023
Come On Baby (2023 Remastered)
Single · 2023
HOV DID
EP · 2022
Entrepreneur (feat. JAY-Z)
Single · 2020
Empire State Of Mind
Single · 2009
Swagga Like Us
Single · 2008
Blue Magic
Single · 2007
Dirt Off Your Shoulde r/ Lying From You: MTV Ultimate Mash-Ups Presents Collision Course
Single · 2004
Storm
Single · 2004
Change Clothes
Single · 2004
Hard Knock Life
Single · 1999
Reasonable Doubt (Fireworks Supermix)
EP · 1996
Appears on
51Releases by other artists featuring Jay-Z.
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BEYONCÉ [Platinum Edition]
Beyoncé · 2014
Life After Death (2014 Remastered Edition)
The Notorious B.I.G. · 2003
The Beyonce Experience Live Audio
Beyoncé · 2007
Good Girl Gone Bad: The Remixes
Rihanna · 2007
R.
R. Kelly · 1998
Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood
DMX · 1998
Maybach All Star
Rick Ross · 2014
Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor
Lupe Fiasco · 2006
Paid tha Cost to Be da Bo$$
Snoop Dogg · 2002
Charmbracelet
Mariah Carey · 2002
The Breakthrough
Mary J. Blige · 2005
Forever
Puff Daddy · 1999
Hard Core
Lil' Kim · 1996
More Malice
Snoop Dogg · 2010
Suit & Tie (feat. JAY Z) (feat. JAY-Z) (Radio Edit)
Justin Timberlake · 2013
Venni Vetti Vecci
Ja Rule · 1999
Rainbow: 25th Anniversary Expanded Edition
Mariah Carey · 2024
All Day All Night
Changing Faces · 1997
Chyna Doll
Foxy Brown · 1999
Life After Death (2014 Remaster)
The Notorious B.I.G. · 1997
Life After Death (25th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition)
The Notorious B.I.G. · 1997
First Family 4 Life
M.O.P. · 1998
B'Day Deluxe Edition
Beyoncé · 2007
Already Platinum
Slim Thug · 2005
Harlem World
Mase · 1997
Deja Vu (feat. JAY-Z)
Beyoncé · 2025
Love & Life
Mary J. Blige · 2003
Notorious V: The King of New York
The Notorious B.I.G. · 2021
Philadelphia Freeway
Freeway · 2003
400 Degreez
Juvenile · 1998
Black and White America
Lenny Kravitz · 2011
Trill
Bun B · 2005
Duets: The Final Chapter (20th Anniversary Deluxe)
The Notorious B.I.G. · 2005
Piece By Piece - Music from the Motion Picture
Pharrell Williams · 2024
BAD BOY CELEBRATES DIDDY: The Artist
Puff Daddy · 2022
The Complete Albums
Mase · 2020
This Is Your Night
Timbaland · 2019
Soul Ultimate Experience Vol. 3
Nas · 2014
Stone Rollin'/The Way I See It
Raphael Saadiq · 2012
Black and White America (Special Edition)
Lenny Kravitz · 2011
From The Beginning - The Best
Beyoncé · 2010
8bit Heart
Simon Curtis · 2010
Sex Therapy
Robin Thicke · 2009
The Singles Collection
Beyoncé · 2009
Big Draws, Little Panties
Missy Elliott · 2008
Umbrella (Travis Barker Remix)
Rihanna · 2007
Ghetto Warfare
M.O.P. · 2006
Ill at Will Mixtape, Volume 2: BC4 Straight Outta Lo-Cash
Redman · 2005
Salutes the St. Marxmen
M.O.P. · 2005
Hell Yeah (Pimp The System)
dead prez · 2004
Not Your Average Flow
Joe Budden · 2004
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Featured tracks
55- Cheat On You (feat. Jay-Z & Lil' Cease)Mase · The Complete Albums
- Party People (feat. JAY-Z & Twista)Timbaland · This Is Your Night
- Oh Girl (feat. JAY-Z) (featuring Jay-Z)Raphael Saadiq · Stone Rollin'/The Way I See It
- The Dark (feat. Jay-Z)Simon Curtis · 8bit Heart
- Meiplé (feat. Jay Z)Robin Thicke · Sex Therapy
- Umbrella (Travis Barker Remix)Rihanna · Umbrella (Travis Barker Remix)
- Roc La Familia (feat. Jay-Z, Memphis Bleek and State Property)M.O.P. · Ghetto Warfare
- Put It in the Air (feat. Jay-Z)M.O.P. · Ghetto Warfare
- Da Banger (feat. Funk Doc, R. Kelly & Jay-Z)Redman · Ill at Will Mixtape, Volume 2: BC4 Straight Outta Lo-Cash
- Hell Yeah (Pimp the System) (feat. JAY-Z) (Remix)dead prez · Hell Yeah (Pimp The System)
- Pump It Up Freestyle (feat. Jay-Z)Joe Budden · Not Your Average Flow
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Honors
13
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Grammy Awards
- 2015 · Best R&B Song
- 2015 · Best R&B Performance
- 2014 · Best Melodic Rap Performance
- 2013 · Best Melodic Rap Performance
- 2011 · Best Melodic Rap Performance
- +4 more
- Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance
×2
Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance
- 2013
- 2012
×1
GLAAD Media Awards
- — · GLAAD Vanguard Award
×1
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
- 2021
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Shawn Corey Carter (born December 4, 1969), better known by his stage name Jay-Z, is an American rapper, songwriter, record producer, entrepreneur, and occasional actor. He is one of the most financially successful hip hop artists and entrepreneurs in America, having a net worth of over $450 million as of 2011. He has sold approximately 50 million albums worldwide, while receiving fourteen Grammy Awards for his musical work, and numerous additional nominations. He is consistently ranked as one of the greatest rappers of all-time. He was ranked #1 by MTV in their list of The Greatest MCs of All-Time in 2006. Two of his albums, Reasonable Doubt (1996) and The Blueprint (2001) are considered landmarks in the genre with both of them being ranked in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. Blender included the former on their 500 CDs You Must Own Before You Die.
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Jay-Z co-owns the 40/40 Club, is part-owner of the NBA's Brooklyn Nets and is also the creator of the line Rocawear. He is the former CEO of Def Jam Recordings, one of the three founders of Roc-A-Fella Records, and the founder of Roc Nation. As an artist, he holds the record for most number one albums by a solo artist on the Billboard 200 with eleven. Jay-Z also has had four number ones on the Billboard Hot 100, one as lead artist. He married American R&B singer Beyoncé Knowles on April 4, 2008. He had a daughter named Blue Ivy Carter on January 2012. On December 11, 2009, Jay-Z was ranked as the 10th most successful artist of 2000s by Billboard and ranking as the 5th top solo male artist and as the 4th top rapper behind Eminem, Nelly, and 50 Cent. He is also ranked the 88th greatest artist of all time, according to Rolling Stone. Originally from Marcy Houses, a housing project in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City, the future "Jay-Z" then known as Shawn Carter, was abandoned by his father and in 1982, he shot his brother in the shoulder for stealing his jewelry. Carter attended Eli Whitney High School in Brooklyn, along with future rapper AZ, until it was closed down. After that he attended George Westinghouse Career and Technical Education High School in Downtown Brooklyn, with fellow future rappers The Notorious B.I.G. and Busta Rhymes, and Trenton Central High School in Trenton, New Jersey, but did not graduate. In his music he refers to having been involved in selling crack cocaine. According to his mother, Gloria Carter, her son Shawn used to wake his siblings up at night banging out drum patterns on the kitchen table. Eventually, she bought him a boom box for his birthday, sparking his interest in music. He began freestyling, writing lyrics, and followed the music of many artists popular at the time. In his neighborhood, Carter was known as "Jazzy", a nickname that eventually developed into his showbiz/stage name, "Jay-Z". The moniker is also an homage to his musical mentor, Jaz-O, as well as to the J/Z subway lines that have a stop at Marcy Avenue in Brooklyn. Jay-Z can briefly be heard on several of Jaz-O's early recordings in the late 1980s and early 1990s, including "The Originators" and "Hawaiian Sophie". Jay-Z was also involved in and won several battles with rapper LL Cool J in the early 90's as part of a plan to get a sought-after record deal. He first became known to a wide audience by being featured on the posse cut "Show and Prove" on the 1994 Big Daddy Kane album Daddy's Home. Jay-Z has been referred to as Big Daddy Kane's hype man during this period, though Kane explains that he didn't fill the traditional hype man role, instead Jay-Z "basically made cameo appearances on stage. When I would leave the stage to go change outfits, I would bring out Jay-Z and Positive K and let them freestyle until I came back to the stage". He made an appearance on a popular song by Big L, "Da Graveyard", and on Mic Geronimo's "Time to Build", which also featured early appearances by DMX, and Ja Rule in 1995. His first official rap single was called "I Can't Get With That", for which he released a music video.
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35Acting roles
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Jay-Z in brief
- How many Jay-Z releases are on Riffiter?
- 69 releases are catalogued, spanning 1996 to 2026.
- When was Jay-Z formed?
- Jay-Z formed in 1989, in New York, USA.
- What genre is Jay-Z?
- Jay-Z is catalogued under Hip-Hop.
- What is the most recent Jay-Z release on Riffiter?
- A Million And One Questions, released in 2026.
- What awards has Jay-Z won?
- Jay-Z has 13 award wins on record, including Grammy Awards (9×), Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance (2×), GLAAD Media Awards (1×).