Empire State Of Mind By Zack O’Malley Greenburg

06/28/2011

Despite its eponymous subject's refusal to cooperate, Zach O’Malley Greenburg reports on the man behind the business - if the business and the man can be separated at all. In telling his story O’Malley interviewed important figures from Jay-Z’s past to present an investigative saga of Jay-Z’s rise from the projects of Brooklyn (his name is rumored to be a tribute to the J and Z trains) to his swanky Tribeca pent house the reported $34 million dollar annual income and world recognition as one of the biggest names in hip-hop that he now enjoys.