Mar 1, 2010
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Feb 1, 2010
Jay takes home 3 Grammies!
Here's the acceptance speech for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration Win for "Run This Town"
Cute Moment: Beyonce Accepts Award for Female Pop Vocal Performance
Jan 25, 2010
Jan 21, 2010
Inside the Recording of Bono and Jay-Z’s Haiti Single “Stranded”
Bono wrote the hook for “Stranded” — his new Haiti benefit single with Jay-Z and Rihanna, which is subtitled either “Haiti Mon Amour” or “Haiti Mi Amore” — while on the phone with producer Swizz Beatz. “The idea of the song is ‘We’re not gonna leave you stranded’ and that’s what the chorus is,” Swizz Beatz tells Rolling Stone. “So me and Bono started going back and forth with ideas, and he was like, ‘You know this word stranded keeps standing out to me’ and I asked him to sing it, and he put me on hold ’cause he’s recording the ideas on a Dictaphone — so he did it there and then on the phone.”
Swizz Beatz got the song started by sending simultaneous texts to Jay-Z and Bono — but when they both called, he accidentally hung up on Jay while trying to conference them. After three hours of phone tag, they all agreed to the project, which came together in geographically scattered sessions, with extra production work by the Edge. “I knew that Jay would be able to tell a story, and that Bono would be able to sing and bring it home. The last component that I added was Rihanna, and she’s kinda like the angel that’s on the track, softening it up and giving it that caring feeling, because this hook is so powerful.”
The song will debut with a live performance on Friday night’s multi-network telethon for Haiti, and will soon be released as a single on iTunes, according to Swizz Beatz.
Stick with RS for full coverage of tomorrow night’s Hope for Haiti concert, including a live blog here on RollingStone.com.
More: Jay-Z To Perform On “Hope For Haiti Now: A Global Benefit For Earthquake Relief”
Jan 14, 2010
Jan 13, 2010
Radio: Jay on Ed Lover, Angie Martinez [1/13/09]
Jan 2, 2010
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Dec 18, 2009
Jay-Z Continues His Hip-Hop Reign As #2 Man Of The Year
Jay-Z talked about his "Takeover" way back in 2001 on the very first Blueprint album. Eight years later, Young Hov is still taking charge, running the Billboard charts with a #1 song and album, running circles around other hip-hop lyricists with his wordplay and running whatever town his tour hits that night. Read More Here
Dec 8, 2009
Access Granted: Jay-Z For A Day
Airs on BET Saturday, December 12 @ 11:30 ET