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The 40/40 Club is a chain of All-American sports bars and lounges owned by hip-hop mogul Jay-Z
Jay-Z

Shawn Corey Carter , better known as his stage name, Jay-Z, is an American hip hop artist and businessman. He is the former Chief executive officer of Def Jam Recordings and Roc-A-Fella Records....
 and partners Desiree Gonzalez and Juan Perez
Juan Pérez

For the 18th century explorer, see Juan Jos? P?rez Hern?ndez, and for the mayor of Sheboygan, Wisconsin, see Juan Perez .Juan P. P?rez is a Major League Baseball pitcher currently in the Atlanta Braves organization....
. The name is borrowed from the baseball
Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two team sport of nine players each. The goal of baseball is to score run by hitting a thrown Baseball with a baseball bat and touching a series of four markers called base arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot square, or diamond. Players on one team take turns hitting against...
 term used to denote the exclusive group of Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball

Major League Baseball is the highest level of play in American professional baseball. Specifically, Major League Baseball refers to the organization that operates the National League and the American League, by means of a joint organizational structure that has developed gradually between them since 1903 ....
 players who have achieved the rare individual feat of recording 40 home runs and 40 stolen bases
40-40 club

The 40?40 club is a term coined by sportswriters to distinguish Major League Baseball players who accumulate a total of both 40 home runs and 40 stolen bases in a single season....
 in a single season.

Overview
On June 18, 2003, the first 40/40 Club opened in New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
; the Atlantic City location opened on October 25, 2005.






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The 40/40 Club is a chain of All-American sports bars and lounges owned by hip-hop mogul Jay-Z
Jay-Z

Shawn Corey Carter , better known as his stage name, Jay-Z, is an American hip hop artist and businessman. He is the former Chief executive officer of Def Jam Recordings and Roc-A-Fella Records....
 and partners Desiree Gonzalez and Juan Perez
Juan Pérez

For the 18th century explorer, see Juan Jos? P?rez Hern?ndez, and for the mayor of Sheboygan, Wisconsin, see Juan Perez .Juan P. P?rez is a Major League Baseball pitcher currently in the Atlanta Braves organization....
. The name is borrowed from the baseball
Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two team sport of nine players each. The goal of baseball is to score run by hitting a thrown Baseball with a baseball bat and touching a series of four markers called base arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot square, or diamond. Players on one team take turns hitting against...
 term used to denote the exclusive group of Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball

Major League Baseball is the highest level of play in American professional baseball. Specifically, Major League Baseball refers to the organization that operates the National League and the American League, by means of a joint organizational structure that has developed gradually between them since 1903 ....
 players who have achieved the rare individual feat of recording 40 home runs and 40 stolen bases
40-40 club

The 40?40 club is a term coined by sportswriters to distinguish Major League Baseball players who accumulate a total of both 40 home runs and 40 stolen bases in a single season....
 in a single season.

Overview


On June 18, 2003, the first 40/40 Club opened in New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
; the Atlantic City location opened on October 25, 2005. The third 40/40 Club located in The Palazzo
The Palazzo

The Palazzo is a American Automobile Association five-diamond luxury hotel and casino resort located on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, Nevada, a suburb of Las Vegas, Nevada....
, an extension of the Venetian Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas
Las Vegas metropolitan area

The Las Vegas metropolitan area includes the Las Vegas Valley, a 600-square-mile basin, and surrounding areas, that is part of Clark County, Nevada in southern Nevada....
; the grand opening was held December 30, 2007. Locations in Tokyo
Tokyo

, officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan of Japan and located on the eastern side of the main island Honshu. The twenty-three special wards of Tokyo, each governed as a city, cover the area that was once the Tokyo City in the eastern part of the prefecture, and total over 8 million people....
 and Macau
Macau

The Macau Special Administrative Region, , commonly known as Macau or Macao , is one of the two special administrative region of the People's Republic of China, the other being Hong Kong....
 are scheduled to open in 2008.

The club is known for its live music, celebrity patrons, and sports memorabilia. The club gained recognition when Jay-Z referenced his investment in his 2003 song "Dirt Off Your Shoulder"
Dirt off Your Shoulder

"Dirt off Your Shoulder" is the second Single released from Jay-Z's 2003 album The Black Album .In 2004, the song was combined with the Linkin Park single "Lying from You" and released as a Dirt off Your Shoulder/Lying from You for the mash-up album Collision Course ....
 with the line "Now you chillin with a boss bitch of course, SC on the sleeve at the 40/40 club ESPN on the screen". The video for the Swizz Beatz
Swizz Beatz

Kasseem Dean , better known by his stage name Swizz Beatz, is an United States record producer and rapper. He is the founder of the label Full Surface Records....
 produced Memphis Bleek
Memphis Bleek

Malik Thuston Cox, better known by his stage name of Memphis Bleek or "Memphis Grillz", is a New York rapper currently signed to Roc-A-Fella Records....
 single "Like That" was filmed at the club's New York location.

Chris Brown
Chris Brown (singer)

Christopher Maurice Brown is an American recording artist and actor. Brown made his recording debut in late 2005 with Chris Brown at the age of 16....
 held a private birthday party for his 18th birthday. It was featured on an episode of My Super Sweet 16
My Super Sweet 16

My Super Sweet 16 is an MTV reality television series documenting the lives of teenagers in the United States who have wealthy parents that throw huge parties for their coming of age....
, retitled My Super 16 and Aaron Reid also held his private party for his 16th birthday. Cleveland Cavaliers
Cleveland Cavaliers

The Cleveland Cavaliers are a professional basketball team based in Cleveland, Ohio. They began playing in the National Basketball Association in 1970 as an expansion team and won their first Eastern Conference Championship in 2007....
 basketball small forward
Small forward

The small forward, or, colloquially, the three, is one of the five basketball#Common techniques and practices in a regulation basketball game....
, LeBron James
LeBron James

LeBron Raymone James is an American professional basketball player for the Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association. A three-time Mr Ohio in high school, "King James," was highly promoted in the national media as a future NBA superstar while still a sophomore at St....
, celebrated his birthday at the grand opening of the Vegas 40/40 Club on December 30, 2007.

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