Is Jay-Z's father still alive

No. Adnes Reeves, father of Shawn Carter, known professionally as Jay-Z, died in 2003 of liver failure. Jay revealed the death in his 2003 song "Moment of Clarity" from the Black Album, rapping "Pop died/Didn't cry/Didn't know him that well/ Between him doin' crack/and me doin' crack sales" Jay revealed the cause of his father's death in a newly released song for his own child, daughter Blue Ivy Carter with wife Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter