Dissecting Jay-Z's Rise As A Businessman (Video)

My biography of Jay-Z, Empire State of Mind, has been out for a week now. I've given quotes to media outlets large and small, sat for countless radio interviews, even braved a hail storm to make an appearance on live television.

But much more daunting than any of this, I think, was the prospect of being interviewed about the book by my friend and colleague Michael Noer, a Forbes editor who once surprised a fellow writer by sending him to Romania on five hours' notice to stress-test laptop...