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When neverending debates of the greatest of all time in rap commence, Jay-Z's name reigns as mandatory in these conversations. The longevity that Jay-Z has adored over the course of almost 30 ...

While nobody could have truly predicted just how far JAY-Z would take his career and Hip Hop as a whole, the crumbs of what would become his rise to power lay in his first-ever body of work.