Jay-Z joins TI, Fat Joe, Fabolous Hip-Hop as a parent "It is serious that a rapper from hip-hop and being a father in the real world,"

Jay-Z is not the first rapper to become a parent, not by a long shot. But now that he and his wife Beyoncé Ivy Blue welcomed Carter into the world on January 8, has been much speculation about what kind of parents they are.


So how will balance his street rap Jay-bred person with parental responsibilities again? It's a balancing act that IT MCS as Joe, Fabolous Fat and have some time juggling.

Before rap, Fat Joe had quite the reputation on the streets of the Bronx, and in the course of his 19 year career, his music reflected that. Her teenage son, Ryan, sometimes feels pressure to live up to his father's representative, but Joey Crack strives to guide you right. "" Wherever he goes people tell him, 'I remember when his father was this, this and that, "so it's tryin' to live up to that," Joe told MTV News. "But I'm trying to say," Yo, I live in a mansion, B, as you know you've done. ""

Ja Rule, who is currently serving a sentence of two years on a gun charge, spoke with MTV News correspondent Sway Calloway about how their decisions affect the lives ultimately their children when they appeared on "RapFix Live "in April. "She needs her father," Rule of teenage Britain. "My children, they need me at this time also, as my wife. They need dad, and dad f --- ed up."

Nick Cannon was recently hospitalized for kidney failure and spoke to MTV News about maintaining a healthy lifestyle to be there for his children and wife Mariah Carey. "There was a second I was thinking like, 'Damn, what if I can not instill the things I want to instill in my children?'" He said of his time in hospital earlier this month. "It just makes you think," Yo, I have to give everything that I can give at this time, and it is obvious that begins with love. "

Being a parent of hip-hop definitely changes things. Before becoming a parent, Fabolous rarely rhymed about his personal life, but in 2009 opened up about his son Johan in "Stay", a song from his album Loso Way. In its forthcoming Loso 2-way Fab figures that will open even more. "[Children] change the way you see things and do things and I think the music reflects that too," he said.


T.I. rap has been to balance family life and for most of his career. He and his wife Tameka "Tiny" Harris now star of the reality series on VH1 "TI and Tiny: The Hustle Family", where the camera follows the couple and their six children in all. In the program, children have a Council similar to the star quality of his famous father, his son Domani is even starting a career as a rapper on his own. "I will not encourage", T.I. said of his son following in his footsteps. "However, I will support him if I see that he is sincerely passionate."

There is much to consider being a father of hip-hop, so Hov has much work for him. "It is serious that a rapper from hip-hop and being a father in the real world," said Fat Joe.