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Neighborhood
Wikipedia ties Jay-Z to Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. A tie, not always an origin
On the map at Marcy Houses
Marcy Houses, Brooklyn.
Places
- Rucker Park
- Times Square
- “The Book of HOV”
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- George Westinghouse Career and Technical Education High School, School
Listen and read
Music spots
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Moment
Rucker Park
2002–2003Holcombe Rucker Park, which ABC7 calls the heart and soul of New York City basketball, is also entrenched in hip-hop culture. In 2003 the Rucker teams of Jay-Z and Fat Joe both reached the finals, per ABC7. Nas stops at the court in his 2002 video for “Made You Look”, per Time Out.
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Times Square, “Empire State of Mind”
2009NYC Tourism counts Jay-Z and Alicia Keys’s “Empire State of Mind” among the iconic hip-hop videos shot in Times Square. Hype Williams’s 2009 video cuts full-color shots of the two performing in Times Square into black-and-white New York, and ends with them on the red steps of the TKTS pavilion, per Wikipedia.
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“The Book of HOV”, Central Library
2023The Book of HOV, a tribute exhibition created by Roc Nation to honor Jay-Z’s career, wrapped Brooklyn’s Central Library in his lyrics. In its run of nearly five months it drew more than 600,000 visitors, and its last day, 4 December, brought nearly 11,000, the most in a single day in the library’s history, per Brooklyn Public Library. It opened on 14 July 2023, per Brooklyn Paper.
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