Hov spoke to MTV while at the newly opened Barclay Center, he candidly and cheerfully spoke about Lil Wayne making a surprise performance during Jay-Z’s NY stop for his Blueprint 3 tour.
“It was fantastic. Again, any time you play the Garden is a special moment. It’s special. Wayne, how that worked out, he was [...]
@LupeFiasco spoke to MTV while at the Summit on the Summit: Kilimanjaro in New York. They asked him about the remark he made in not wanting to be Jay-Z .
“[My comments were] just an example using him of how people rate success. There’s an idea of the status quo that every rapper wants to be [...]
Hov and @JColeNC perform this beautifully while in Jermaine’s neck of the woods…not the Ville but still North Carolina none the less on this Blueprint 3 tour stop. Seeing this done just makes me want an official music video for the song. Clap for em!
@SteveRifkind sat down with the UK’s HipHopChronicle to talk about his fondest memories as CEO of LOUD records. He recounts meeting Dame Dash and not signing Hov. Also goes into details about how things got out of hand over the lyrics in a Wu-Tang record, specifically RZA’s Duck Seazon (Steve Rifkind must be sniffin).
As I posted yesterday, Jay-Z ventured off into the White House for a tour and brief meeting with the 44th President. Here are some pictures, none with the Commander and Chief but dah well.
Does that make Norm your Secretary of Defense?
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@LupeFiasco spoke to The Age about conflicts he’s been having with his label. When asked he stated:
””There’s a misunderstanding with my fanbase,” he says. ”People [at Warner] feel they know my fans more than I do.
They want me to step out of my comfort zone and step into theirs. I don’t have necessarily the [...]
The NYPost reports that Mr. Carter and the Empire State’s Governor are under the microscope by the feds.
Gov. Paterson has 99 problems — and Jay-Z might be one of them.
The governor’s friendship with the hip-hop impresario is raising questions because of the latter’s involvement with AEG, the consortium controversially selected to run a multibillion-dollar racino [...]
Hov in the stu with Mustache P and Chad Hugo? Anytime Pharrell isn’t alone in the studio is a good thing. The Billionaire Boys also been working with Asher and as you can see they aren’t stopping there.
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“I wanna shoot ‘Venus vs. Mars,’ ” he told MTV News last weekend in Dallas.
“I may shoot two — I shot ‘Run This Town’ [and 'D.O.A. (Death of Auto Tune)'], I been shooting two at the same time. I’ll probably shoot ‘Venus’ and maybe ‘A Star Is Born.’ But I definitely wanna shoot ‘Venus’ — [...]
Hov is taking heat from the Daily Star after a reporter alleged that Mr. Carter and his entourage weren’t welcoming people of lighter skin tone to enter the VIP area at an after party. AHH Reports:
Kim Dawson, a reporter for the UK’s Daily Star, alleges that black people were allowed free access to the VIP [...]
@MemphisBleek sheds light on the question everyone’s been wondering. IF at all, ever, will Jay-Z respond to Beanie Sigel’s lyrical assaults?
“My thing is, what’s the purpose?” Bleek said about Sigel’s outburst. “You said all you had to say. You said you wasn’t gonna say no more until Jay called you. He ain’t call. Everything [...]
UPDATE: Here’s some extended footage where Sigel goes at Dame Dash at the end as well.
While a guest at Freeway’s show in Philly last night, Beans took stage spit that verse I posted weeks ago firing shots at Hov. No surprise there but what was rather eyebrow raising, some jabs thrown at T.I. at the [...]
