{"id":2249069,"date":"2026-01-25T00:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T00:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2249069"},"modified":"2026-01-25T00:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T00:57:09","slug":"jay-z-honors-mom-who-raised-4-kids-after-dad-left-celebrity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/jay-z-honors-mom-who-raised-4-kids-after-dad-left-celebrity\/","title":{"rendered":"Jay-Z Honors Mom Who Raised 4 Kids After Dad Left #celebrity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QU-rez9RU5k?autoplay=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Jay-Z has shared a deeply personal story about his childhood. His father abandoned the family when he was 11, leaving his mother to raise four children alone in Brooklyn. He credits her strength, guidance, and words of encouragement for shaping him into the successful rapper and entrepreneur he is today. Once he became successful, he retired his mother\u2014but she chose to work again, so he made her president of The Shawn Carter Foundation. His journey is a reminder that life may not always be fair, but resilience, love, and purpose can turn hardship into triumph.<\/p>\n<p>Jay-Z family story, Jay-Z childhood struggles, Shawn Carter Foundation, celebrity inspiration stories, Jay-Z mom tribute, father abandonment impact, Brooklyn upbringing.<\/p>\n<p>#JayZ #ShawnCarter #Inspiration #FamilyFirst #Motherhood #Resilience #CelebrityStories<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QU-rez9RU5k\">Video Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jay-Z has shared a deeply personal story about his childhood. His father abandoned the family when he was 11, leaving his mother to raise four children alone in Brooklyn. He credits her strength, guidance, and words of encouragement for shaping him into the successful rapper and entrepreneur he is today. Once he became successful, he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2249070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2249069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1769302627_maxresdefault.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2249069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2249071,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249069\/revisions\/2249071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2249070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2249069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2249069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2249069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}