Jay-Z’s favorite card game is a three-card version of Guts; he is a highly proficient and feared player. It was a staple pastime among the Roc-A-Fella Records crew, and you would see it being played anytime they were together. “You can’t stop,” Jay has said of the game, “it’ll claim your life.”
At one point the amount of money Memphis Bleek owed Jay-Z reached over $3 million. In 2003 Kevin Liles lost a $10,000 bet during a game, and when he tried to send payment via an assistant to Baseline Studio Hov refused to accept it and told him to “come pay him in person” and serve his debt with honor. When Hov was in the studio recording his verse for Cam'ron’s song ‘Welcome to New York’ he and a few friends were playing several hands of guts while the beat played. After about an hour of playing cards, Jay walked into the booth and knocked out his verse in one take; he had been writing the verse in his head while playing the high-stakes game.
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Jay-Z and Foxy Brown photographed at the ‘Dead Presidents’/’Ain’t No Nigga’ single release party, as seen in The Source magazine in June 1996.
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After Jay-Z and Dame Dash formed Rocawear in 1999 in just one year of business the clothing company managed to net over $80 million in sales. The company still has annual sales of $520 million.
Jay-Z, Young Chris, Neef Buck, and Beanie Sigel in 2000.
Jay-Z, Young Chris, and Beanie Sigel photographed on the set of Hov’s ‘Excuse Me Miss’ video, filmed at the Novotel Hotel in Times Square in January 2003.
Jay-Z won ‘R&B Albums Artist of the Year’ at the 1998 Billboard Music Awards, held in Las Vegas.
