Jay-Z Turns 50 With a Return to Spotify

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By Wire Service
December 4, 2019Entertainment
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Jay-Z Turns 50 With a Return to Spotify
Rapper Jay-Z performs onstage during TIDAL X: 1020 Amplified by HTC at Barclays Center of Brooklyn in New York City on Oct. 20, 2015. (Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for TIDAL)

Jay-Z turns 50 years old on Dec. 4 and there’s cause to celebrate over on Spotify.

That’s because the prolific rapper’s music catalog has been returned to that streaming service after a two-year absence.

American rapper and businessman, Shawn Corey Carter, known professionally as JAY-Z,
American rapper and businessman, Shawn Corey Carter, known professionally as JAY-Z, acknowledges his Industry Icon award during the traditional Clive Davis party on the eve of the 60th Annual Grammy Awards in New York on January 28, 2018. (Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images)

Spotify tweeted about it on Wednesday.

“Happy birthday, Hov Welcome back to Spotify,” the Twitter post read, with a link to his music.

Jay-Z is the owner of Spotify’s competitor Tidal music streaming service, and there has been no official announcement as to why his music is back on Spotify.

But to quote one of his verses on his wife Beyoncé’s hit “Déjà Vu,” “Now be everywhere, the nerve of rap.”

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