Jay & Kanye are good friends, that doesn't mean there isn't a rivalry between the two...
Nowadays, most rappers don’t even go Gold, let alone platinum. But Jay Z isn’t most rappers. He is the guy in hip-hop. Which means he moves major units. Jay Z’s latest album Magna Carta… Holy Grail was just certified double platinum. The RIAA announced the achievement on their Facebook page: Magna Carta is the eighth Jay […]
Next week, the second annual Made in America festival, an event organized by Jay Z, will be going down at Philadelphia’s Benjamin Franklin Parkway; headlining that show will be Hov’s wife, Beyonce. A week after that, Academy Award winning director (and former Happy Days star) Ron Howard will world premiere a documentary he shot about last year’s […]
It’s official, people: we don’t call him Jay-Z anymore. Nah. It’s strictly Jay Z. Yup, that’s right, Jay-Z has officially dropped the hyphen in his name. So it’s no longer Jay-Z. It’s Jay Z. Got it? Good. Joe Levy, the editor of Billboard magazine, tweeted out the news: Breaking: Jay Z has dropped the hyphen […]
Tell us if you’ve seen this before: Jay-Z sits in a room decoding a song while producers Rick Rubin, Pharrell, Swizz Beatz and Timbaland sit and listen. Sound familiar? It should, because we saw it the other day when Jay broke down the Frank Ocean-assisted “Ocean.” Today we got three new videos. In the first one, […]
LESS THAN A WEEK AWAY! Everything We Know About Jay-Z’s “Magna Carta Holy Grail” Album So Far (LIST)
On November 14, 2003, Jay-Z dropped The Black Album, a project he was promoting as his last. There was great hype leading up to the album’s release: The catchy radio-bating single “Change Clothes” was the album’s first single, while “What More Can I Say” was killing the mixtape scene. Then there was the farewell concert at Madison […]
UPDATE: Wednesday June 26, 2:20 PM EST More and more Jay-Z bits and pieces are starting to hit the Inter-streets. The lyrics to “Ocean,” Hov’s Magna Carta Holy Grail collaboration with Frank Ocean, has just been released. Not only that, but through the Samsung-exclusive Magna Carta app, Jay-Z released another ad where he breaks down the song. In […]
UPDATE: Friday June 30, 10:00 AM EST Jay-Z performing at Times Square? This is a rumor no more. According to RapRadar, Jay has been approved by Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s office to perform at Times Square for the David Letterman show on July 8th. Man, that’s going to be fun. ——– From Madison Square Garden to Yankee Stadium, […]
Unless you’re bad at the Internet, then you know Born Sinner, J. Cole’s anticipated sophomore album, leaked last night. That kinda sucks, considering that Cole’s album doesn’t officially drop until June 18th. If you’re a real fan you did the right thing and didn’t download the leak last night. And there’s some good news for […]
The NFL Players Association is set to investigate Jay-Z and Roc Nation Sports to see if they violated any rules when they recruited New York Jets rookie QB Geon Smith. The new sports management company started by Jay-Z has made news lately by signing New York Yankees Robinson Cano, New York Giants WR Victor Cruz […]
J. Cole has done it again! The Born Sinner rapper has been making his rounds performing everywhere, and he just recently wrapped up a dope show at BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend in Ireland. Opening up his set with his newest hit “Power Trip” that features Miguel, J. Cole got himself and the crowd hype as […]
