Every Jay Z Magazine Cover, Ever*

“Magazine said I’m shallow, I never learned to swim/Still they put me on they cover cause I earn for them,” Jay-Z slyly rapped on the DJ Premier produced “So Ghetto” from his Vol. 3… Life and Time Of S. Carter album. Hova wasn’t kidding. Since first gracing the cover of the storied NYC Hip-Hop mag Stress, Jigga Man’s face has appeared on the front of numerous Rap friendly publications like Vibe and The Source to mainstream rags like GQ and Entertainment Weekly that couldn’t front on the BK rapper turned mogul’s star power.

With his career comfortably on cruise control—Watch The Throne is still getting burn and you can surely expect a new album this year—Shawn Corey Carter is bound to be on plenty more magazine covers, either on dead trees or iPad screens.

Here, Hip-Hop Wired has assembled every Jay-Z magazine cover, ever*.

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Photo: Blaze Magazine

*We think. That we could find anyway. So feel free to let us know what we missed and we’ll add it.

Hova’s first cover. The West Coast Jawn even has the story.

From the files of YN.

Props to Trent Fitzgerald.

Cigar Aficionado. See, June 2009.

Amil-ion, gone. Bleek’s Js, >.

Courtesy of NCB1979

Peep the Candy Cane Jordans. ’01 swag.

Money in the bank.

Remember them days?

“I’m about a dollar, what the f-ck is…”

Retirement? Hov needed more people.

Thanks to Trent Fitzgerald of BEATS and RANTS for the heads up.

Air-brushed to death with…LeBron James and Foxy Brown. The rest of the Roc had to settle for the flip. Clue!

All beef aside.

RIP Trayvon Martin.

Jay’s first, of a few, Rolling Stone cover. What took so long?

Looking back now, the suit is ill fitting.

It’s a secret society…

Second Rolling Stone look.

Vibe actually had people vote on which Jay-Z photo would be their 15th Anniversary Juice issue’s cover. Remember getting the one with the cake. And the special I Am Legend joint, too.

Young H-O on the cover of Time Out New York’s 40th Anniversary issue.

Another two-fer.

No one man should have all that power.

Nice watch.

The Rolling Stone hat trick.

Jay gets love across the pond, too.

Just The Blueprint’s album cover commemorating the 10th anniversary of the classic album. But, a cover no less.

Below is the South Africa edition. Motherland swag.