His art resides in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The Studio Museum in Harlem the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond and the Birmingham Museum of Art, among many others. Truth., a Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition (2019 - 2020) and Performa, New York (2015, 2013, 2005). His work has been featured in notable group exhibitions, including Textures: The History and Art of Black Hair, Kent State University Museum (2021–2022) Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem (2020), now at the Seattle Art Museum (2021) Men of Change: Power. The artist has mounted public installations commissioned through MTA Arts & Design at the Nostrand Avenue LIRR Station, Brooklyn (2020–ongoing) and RxART at NYC Health + Hospitals/Harlem (2019–ongoing). Petersburg (2020) 12 E 94th St New York S94The Gallery in Baltimore City Hall (2019) and the Museum of Arts and Design, New York (2018). He is an alumnus of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Space Program and was the recipient of Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Residency, a Gordon Parks Foundation Fellowship, a Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize, and a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award.Īdams has been the subject of solo exhibitions at institutions such as Cleveland Art Museum (2021-2022) Henry Art Museum, The Momentary, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville (2021) SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion + Film, Savannah (2020–2021) Hudson River Museum, Yonkers (2020) Museum of Fine Arts, St. 1970, Baltimore, MD) received his MFA from Columbia University and BFA from Pratt Institute. Carter also serves as the Chief Visionary Officer of TPCO Holdings Corp.Īdams, Derrick. In March 2015,Ĭarter became a co-owner of the global streaming service Tidal, a subscription-based music, podcast and video streaming service, which is currently majority owned by Square, where Mr. In 2013, Carter launched Roc Nation Sports, whose roster includes Robinson Cano, Skylar Diggins-Smith, Kyrie Irving, Kevin De Bruyne, Marcus Rashford, Romelu Lukaku, CC Sabathia, and Todd Gurley. With multiple businesses, accolades across the recording and film industries, recognition throughout the philanthropic community, Carter is a globally dominant force of popular culture.Ĭarter has sold over 100M albums worldwide, retains control of his own master rights to his music, founded preeminent entertainment company Roc Nation, curates the successful “Made In America” festival, and acquired luxury spirits brands Armand De Brignac and D'usse. Shawn "JAY-Z" Carter is not just the first hip-hop artist to be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, but he is also a 23-time GRAMMY award-winner. But mostly, it revealed a young artist with a story to tell and the discipline to do so more effectively than almost any other in hip-hop’s illustrious history. It was an arduous journey marked by previously insurmountable uncertainties, unyielding gatekeepers, tenacious artistic ambition, and an enormous amount of sweat equity – a masterpiece wrought in rapier sharp flow and steeled in indefatigable hustle. JAY-Z’s journey to realizing Reasonable Doubt did not happen overnight. The recording of one of Reasonable Doubt’s best-loved tracks, "Brooklyn's Finest,” JAY-Z’s first collaboration with the Notorious B.I.G, resulted in a friendly competition between two Brooklyn emcees, even though the recording session revealed they had more in common than previously thought: While pushing pen and paper towards each other in the studio, the two men discovered that they both employed a “no pen, no pad” method of preparing to record their verses. It was, and is, a portrait of an artist on the cusp of success and fame the songs were too good for any other outcome. Chest-puffing nods to the luxe life are woven together with stark drama and dark ruminations on the realities of his early life.
Reasonable Doubt has been heralded for its gritty realism, dense wordplay, and mellifluous musicality as evidence of its greatness.
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