Jay Z better brush his shoulders off because he's in a league with some greats, according to music mogul L.A. Reid. Epic Records CEO L.A. Reid hired Hov to lead Def Jam Recordings in 2004 and has been consistently impressed with his rise in the music industry, he told HuffPost Live on Thursday. Reid, who details his work with Jay Z in his new memoir Sing to Me, placed the artist among the best people he's ever encountered. "Jay Z is on this very short list of people that I find to be the greatest men that I've ever met," he told host Caroline Modarressy-Tehrani.