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4/5 Barnes & Noble Language English Pages 304 Originally published 17 March 2011 Page count 304 Genres Biography, Non-fiction | 3.6/5 Goodreads Country United States Publication date September 22, 2015 ISBN 978-1591848349 Publisher Penguin Random House | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Empire State of Mind: How Jay Z Went From Street Corner To Corner Office is a biography authored by Zack O'Malley Greenburg, released in March 2011 by Portfolio, the Penguin Random House business imprint. The latest updated paperback edition was released in September 2015.
Synopsis
From the official blurb: Empire State of Mind reveals the story behind Jay Z’s rise as told by the people who lived it with him, from classmates at Brooklyn’s George Westinghouse High School and the childhood friend who got him into the drug trade, to the DJ who persuaded him to stop dealing and focus on the music. Now with new interviews with industry insiders like Russell Simmons, Alicia Keys, and J. Cole—more than one hundred in total—this book explains just how Jay Z propelled himself from the bleak streets of Brooklyn to the heights of the business world.
Noteworthy sources interviewed for this biography include Fab Five Freddy, Russell Simmons, Damon Dash, Alicia Keys and J. Cole. The book was cited by Bloomberg as "one of the year's best rock books."