DJ Khaled and Jay Z: A Beautiful, Rare Friendship Defined by One Life-Changing Sentence

The fascinating beginning of Jay-Z’s (Jay) and DJ Khaled’s (DJ) amazing friendship will go down in music history. Their friendship started because they both had a strong desire to be successful and had a passion for music. Jay-Z noticed DJ Khaled, a prominent player in the hip-hop and DJ communities, because of his talent, enthusiasm, and passion. 

Jay-Z, a forefather of the rap genre and music industry magnate, saw in DJ Khaled a collaborator and friend with similar goals. Their original bond was one of mutual respect and a shared experience of rising from modest beginnings to amazing accomplishments; it was both professional and personal in nature.

 Their amazing friendship paved the way for groundbreaking musical projects, fruitful commercial partnerships, and an unbreakable bond. Together, Jay and DJ Khaled are a formidable force in the music industry and beyond, demonstrating the enduring strength of shared ambitions, hard effort, and the true connection that can be created in the quest of perfection.

DJ Khaled has decided that his family is more important than his fame and fan base.

The music producer felt reborn after the birth of his first son Asahd, now 612 years old; he recalled that this was exactly what JAY-Z had promised.

“It’s all for them,” Khaled, 47, told Variety in an interview published on Wednesday for a cover story. Everything: where we live, what we drive, the timepieces we wear, the music we listen to,… “Wait till you have a kid — that’s when life really starts,” JAY-Z told me.