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AFTER discovering RIHANNA and RITA ORA, rapper JAY-Z is giving yet another young woman an almighty leg-up in the music industry.

This time around he’s picked a 16-year-old Canadian schoolgirl called EBONY OSHUNRINDE — aka WONDAGURL — to be a producer on his new album Magna Carta Holy Grail.

Ebony got the call through a chance meeting with a friend of Jay-Z, who passed her beat to the rap mogul.

Now she’s credited on the album, which came out on Thursday via a deal with phone giant Samsung.

It will give the teenager a great start in music — and earn her a few quid in tuck money from royalties.

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Ebony, who has only just finished 11th grade, said:

“It’s a really good feeling. I want to show young people that they can do it.” She originally passed a reggae-inspired beat made on her laptop to friend TRAVIS SCOTT, who works with KANYE WEST and Jay.

It’s finished up as the song Crown on Jay-Z’s album and Wondagurl’s name is now credited alongside TIMBALAND, JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE, BEYONCE and PHARRELL.

She said:

“I made a beat and sent it to Travi$ Scott and he said he was gonna do some stuff with it,” Oshunrinde recalls. “A few days later he texted me and said he was about to change my life but he wouldn’t tell me what he was talking about. Then he called me and told me I was officially on Jay-Z’s album.”

Usually, that doesn’t happen to 16-year-olds.

“A lot more people want to work with me now. It’s pretty cool.”

Ebony’s in good company. Rihanna and Rita Ora were both discovered by Jay-Z when they were teenagers — although his signing of British rapper LADY SOVEREIGN is perhaps best forgotten.