Jay-Z

Some reviews from print.

source: thosegeese (WordPress)

Alarm bells should be ringing when any artist releases an album entitled The Blueprint. It’s hubristic for a musician to set their music on a pedestal above predecessors and peers. It turns it into a competition. But that’s what mainstream hip-hop is all about, being the best right now, and i...

Published 12 hours ago

Why not mix it up?

source: rockmosis (WordPress)

Did you hear that New York bad boy Jay-Z came up on stage last night with U2 before the kickoff of European Music Awards? That’s right, the jiggaman popped up during “Sunday Bloody Sunday” live in Berlin, Germany in front of the Brandenburg Gate giving the 10,000 fans a treat of musical bril...

Published 12 hours ago

Beyonce baby plans? We're ready, says tight-lipped Jay-Z

source: Oh No They Didn't!

And all that, um, practice must be lighting a fire for the couple, married since April 2008. Backstage Thursday at the MTV Europe Music Awards in Berlin, where both got awards, the husky rapper held his beaming wife in a big bear hug, When she got up to the podium, Beyoncé said, "There is only o...

Published 14 hours ago

Wale: new video “Pat Your Weave” w/ UCB, and Rap-Up interview

source: MissInfo.tv

Wale’s album drops tomorrow, and in this interview with Rap-Up Magazine, he shares “the advice he got from his Roc Nation boss Jay-Z, receiving Rihanna’s blessing to sample her song, getting the cold shoulder from Kanye West (“I don’t wait for handouts”)” and more. Wale will also be with m...

Published 15 hours ago

Rick Ross On Nas As Def Jam President, "I Want Rap N*ggas To Takeover Everything" [Video]

source: SOHH

Three years ago, Jay-Z signed an incentive-based contract to take over the storied hip-hop label, and in 2006, he returned from "retirement" to put out a new album, Kingdom Come. The project was met with mixed reviews but was best known for the controversies that surrounded it. Several art...

Published 16 hours ago

Bridget Kelly

source: kamalkamruddin (WordPress)

She was the massive voice filling in for Alicia Keys on Empire State Of Mind, and through similar performances around the world has been gaining a large amount of interest. Signed to Jay’s new management/music-publishing company, Roc Nation, Bridget (a.k.a. BeeKay) is in the process of fin...

Published 19 hours ago

Miley Cyrus and Her 5inch Long GUMS Have Never Heard a Jay-Z Song

source: mediaoutrage (WordPress)

Miley Cyrus and her very large gums claim they both have never heard a Jay-Z song. Via AHH: “I’ve never heard a Jay-Z song,” Miley Cyrus told Us Weekly before a Halloween concert in Louisville, Kentucky. “I don’t listen to pop music….I don’t know, I didn’t write the song, so I have no idea.”

Published 20 hours ago

“The Roundtable” [PODCAST] 6: Us vs Them…

source: sahboog (WordPress)

Episode 6: Spike Lee on Tyler Perry/Russell Simmons on Bill Cosby/Rihanna & Chris Brown/ Beans vs Jay-Z/ Loyalty and Responsiblity in the Rap Game… piphblu v v v v Rihanna & Chris Brown (14:43) [original link] v v Beans vs Jay-Z (30:17) [original link] v v sah

Published Sun, Nov 8