May 27, 2010
May 18, 2010
Pics: Time to Give, Celebrity Watch Auction
The most expensive watch, “Las Vegas Strip Tourbillon,” was signed by Jay-Z, a Tony-nominated producer of “Fela!” It has a blackened-steel case with red numbers. The chronograph is made in an edition of 35 and is valued at $217,800. Charity Buzz *thx to cheleny
Update: Vanessa Williams goes home with Jay-Z's watch
May 14, 2010
Radio: Jay-Z & Stephen A Smith Show
Yesterday, Jay-Z called into the Stephen A. Smith's radio show to talk sports. Sorry Cavs :(
*props cheleny
May 12, 2010
September 2 & September 13 Jay & Em Team Up!
Superstar rappers Eminem and Jay-Z will play a Comerica Park show in September [2nd], the Free Press has learned.
The late-summer blockbuster is part of a two-show stand that will include a date at New York's Yankee Stadium [September 13] -- a home-and-home series for Detroit's Eminem and New York's Jay-Z. The two announced the dates during the third inning of the Detroit Tigers and New York Yankess game tonight in Detroit on ESPN. Check out the videos (via RapRadar) posted below. Ticket on-sale June 12. Read More
May 8, 2010
Videos: Jay-Z on SNL
Jay killed it tonight with a medley of hits, during his first performance, followed by a short performance of 'Young Forever' with Mr. Hudson. No skits, but the mini concert made up for that. ;) Watch the videos below. ~Off to bed!
Medley [RapRadar]
Medley + Young Forever [YTN]
Entire Episode [Your Audio Fix]
Pics: Jay-Z at Cleveland vs. Boston Game
Jay-Z and Beyonce attended the Cavs vs. Celtics game in Boston last night. Cavs up 2-1.
May 7, 2010
SNL Promo: Betty White & Jay-Z
Reminder: Jay appears on SNL this Saturday, May 8th. Rumor is the two might be appearing in some skits together.
This - is frickin' Betty White
Be Sure To Tune In!
Apr 29, 2010
Apr 23, 2010
Pics: Jay and Bee do Hawaii!
Beyonce Knowles stuck with a one piece instead of a bikini, but still showed off her amazing curves yesterday afternoon when she hit the beach in Hawaii. She and Jay-Z headed West earlier in the week for a family vacation with her nephew Julez, after a fun and music-filled weekend together at Coachella. Jay-Z was in a pair of appropriately floral swim trunks to document their day by the water, and he was there to snap photos as Beyonce let Julez bury her in the sand. [PopSugar]
Apr 17, 2010
Video: Jay-Z at Coachella 2010
Apr 16, 2010
Live Stream: Coachella 2010
In the Jesus Christ-this-was-done-to-the-wire department, we’re now pleased to announce that Jay-Z will be performing tonight at Coachella.
Oh right, you knew that.
Coachella: Jay-Z added to tonight's live stream! [Myspace Users]
Coachella: Jay-Z added to tonight's live stream! [Facebook Users]
Oh right, you knew that.
Well, we’ll also be livestreaming his set tonight on the site at 10:50 PM PST (1:50 AM ET). If you haven’t gotten your Coachella app so you can watch the concert all weekend, you can do so right here. Set it up, find a nice quiet place, and get ready to brush that dirt off your shoulder. [Beyonce has been confirmed to perform alonside Jay tonight.]
Coachella: Jay-Z added to tonight's live stream! [Myspace Users]
Coachella: Jay-Z added to tonight's live stream! [Facebook Users]
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Pics: Jay-Z & Beyonce do Coachella [FadedYouthBlog]
Apr 13, 2010
Pics: Jay leaving Bar Pitti
Jay-Z was spotted leaving dinner at Bar Pitti. As he left a guy tried to get him to buy some M&M’s but Jay tells him”nah I don’t eat chocolate”.
Apr 8, 2010
Jay-Z Widens the Festival Tent
Jay-Z goes where rappers have not tread before: headlining Britain's rocker Glastonbury Festival two years ago and leading the way in Coachella this year.
In 2008, when Jay-Z was named as a headlining act for Britain's fiercely rock-centric Glastonbury Festival -- a first for any hip-hop performer, let alone one of rap's epochal superstars -- the island nation erupted in furious debate. They're giving a rapper domain over one of rock's elite events? Critics derided the decision as "a disaster" and "tragic," assailing Glastonbury itself as "contaminated." No less an eminence than Noel Gallagher of the Brit-pop quintet Oasis provided an antagonistic voice of dissent. "I'm sorry, but Jay-Z? No chance," Gallagher said in an interview with the BBC, citing the festival's "history of guitar music."
To Jay (birth name: Shawn Corey Carter), the situation smacked of segregation. "That was the old guard standing in the way, saying, 'This is rock music. This is sacred,' " he said, seated in his wood-lined corner office, a stone's throw from Times Square. "It was one of those hurdles we had to break down."
"It felt like we were invading a country," Jay said. " 'Whoa. There's a lot of people out there.' I had never played before that many people in my life. 'What did we just do? This had better work.' "
Read More: Jay-Z widens the festival tent [LA Times]
Reporting from New York
The plan was to rock the mike, not cause an identity crisis.
To Jay (birth name: Shawn Corey Carter), the situation smacked of segregation. "That was the old guard standing in the way, saying, 'This is rock music. This is sacred,' " he said, seated in his wood-lined corner office, a stone's throw from Times Square. "It was one of those hurdles we had to break down."
B-boy braggadocio is one thing, but a certain performance anxiety set in when the rapper first laid eyes on Glastonbury's heaving masses: nearly a quarter-million festival-goers camped out in a vast tent city surrounding the outdoor venue in the British countryside. Around 70,000 of them -- some openly hostile -- awaited his set.
"It felt like we were invading a country," Jay said. " 'Whoa. There's a lot of people out there.' I had never played before that many people in my life. 'What did we just do? This had better work.' " Not only did he manage to win over the crowd -- thanks, in part, to his opening number, a cheeky cover of Oasis' biggest hit, "Wonderwall" -- but the artist known variously as Jigga Man and Young Hova in the process established a whole new enterprise. With what he calls his Glastonbury "game-changer," Jay-Z suddenly became the most internationally popular live performer in hip-hop history.
As a measure of his post-Glastonbury clout, this year Jay will take his show on the road to such top-tier summer music fests as Tennessee's Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, the Summer Sonic Festival in Japan and Germany's Rock Am Ring, among others. And come Friday, Jay-Z arrives as the first straight-up rapper to claim a headlining berth at Southern California's crowning musical event: the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in Indio. Others have graced the lineup -- Jurassic 5, Kool Keith, MURS, Kanye West and Aesop Rock, to name a few -- but none have done it at the top of the ticket.
Read More: Jay-Z widens the festival tent [LA Times]
Apr 5, 2010
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