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 8 hours ago

50 Cent On XXL Cover

source: oghiphop.com

Mmh, It’s gonna be interesting to see who made it to the 100 best Hip Hop websites…Similar Posts: Video: 50 Cent And Beanie Sigel On Power99Eminem, 50 Cent, Dr. Dre & Jay-Z To Release Albums In December50 Cent Promises to Reinvent the Hip-hop Wheel on New Album Digg, Facebook, Twitter, Share: Mmh, It’s gonna be interesting to see who made it to the 100 best Hip Hop websites…Similar Posts: Video: 50 Cent And Beanie Sigel On Power99 Eminem, 50 Cent, Dr. Dre & Jay-Z To Release Albums In December 50 Cent Promises to Reinvent the Hip-hop Wheel on New Album Digg, Facebook, Twitter, Share:

Published 9 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 9 hours ago

How the illuminati is helping Jay-Z buy the Yankees

source: XXL

Then there’s the matter of why Jay-Z performed at these Yankees events in the first place. Cynical hating mofo that I am, I just figured it was because he has an album to promote. Like when he gave the Pigs in a Blanket Foundation some money to allow him to turn the anniversary of the attacks of 9/...

Published 10 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 11 hours ago

Born To Use Mics

source: urbanmogullife.com

From the moment then nineteen-year-old Nasir “Nas” Jones began recording tracks for his debut album the hip-hop world was forever changed. Released in 1994, Illmatic, was hailed as a masterpiece and is one of the most influentialalbums in hip-hop history. In Born to Use Mics, Michael Eri...

Published 11 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 12 hours ago

Video: Jay-Z x Rihanna at UCLA

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Rihanna surprised concertgoers at Jay-Z’s show at UCLA’s Pauley Pavillion on Sunday night by performing “Run This Town” with Jay and “Hard” from her new album Rated R. If you were there and have better footage, please send it to us. UPDATE: Thanks to everyone who sent in the “Hard” performan...

Published 12 hours ago