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After a decade as a Forbes senior editor, Zack O’Malley Greenburg now writes exclusively at Substack, where he’s serializing his fifth book, We Are All Musicians Now (sign up here). His other books include A-List Angels: How a Band of Actors, Artists, and Athletes Hacked Silicon Valley and the Jay-Z biography Empire State of Mind. He has also written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Vibe, McSweeney's and Sports Illustrated, tackling topics from public pension fund scandals to Kanye West's quest to overtake Air Jordan. Zack has lectured at Yale, Harvard and Princeton, and appeared as an expert source for 60 Minutes, BBC, MTV and others. Full bio here. ...more

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What Would Jay-Z Do: Punctuation For Profit

Most casual observers don’t remember this, but when Shawn Carter released his 1996 debut Reasonable Doubt, his nom-de-plume was styled with an umlaut: JAŸ-Z.

Back then, he was a relative unknown, and preferred to maintain an air of mystery—his face wasn’t visible on the album cover, obscured by the fedora of his black-and-white mafioso outfit. He claimed he was going to release one album, and

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