The influential MC's chart-topping career included five Number One albums, but was beset by drug and legal issues. He died following a heart attack
With a rhyme career going since the late Eighties, Jay-Z's songs have been reflective, pop, confessional, hard-edged and indelible. Here are his best
"There's a new sound out here that is gonna expose how Los Angeles really has been this whole time," he says
Migos, Jay-Z, Kendrick Lamar and more of the year in rhymes
The best from the bloody, bombastic, brilliant career of the hip-hop troublemaker
The Chicago MC talks working with Pharrell, staying off social media
Kanye West, Chance the Rapper, Danny Brown and more in the year in rhymes
Tech giant is opening its checkbook and getting inolved with artists' careers like never before
"I don't want Quik fucking rapping like the Migos"
How Led Zeppelin, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Outkast helped create an instant classic
