On Wednesday, a U.S. district judge in Los Angeles dismissed the long-running lawsuit against Jay Z and his producer Timbaland over their sampling of an Egyptian song in Jay’s 1999 hit single “Big Pimpin’.”
Puff Daddy is back and he’s the highest paid rapper around. Sean Comb came in at number one on Forbes’s annual list of “The World’s Highest-Paid Rap Acts” earning $60 million last year, The Los Angeles Times reports.
On Saturday, it seemed like Jay Z had finally—finally!—joined Instagram. He even (apparently) posted a photo. Two, actually! (Maybe?) But, the New York Daily News reports, by Sunday morning, the account that appeared to have been Jay’s was deleted.
This weekend I went to a late dinner and guess what, Jay Z was there. That’s pretty much the whole story, except where I note that—wow—he’s extremely good at eating spaghetti.
Hey, what ever happened to those dragon eggs from Game of Thrones? In a new interview with Harper’s Bazaar, actress Emilia Clarke offered a dope—if unverified—rumor about the ultimate fate of the props she described as “really, really, really expensive” and “really fucking heavy.”
How good is Tidal, Jay-Z’s terrible Spotify alternative, doing? So good that the Jigga Man himself got on Twitter this morning to offer a series of cheerfully earnest #TidalFacts and defend the service against unnamed foes “spending millions on a smear campaign.”
Just a few short weeks ago, a gaggle of the biggest names in music gathered to announce Jay Z’s new streaming music service, Tidal. I remind you of this fact because, statistically speaking, you’ve probably already forgotten about it: Tidal is now the 50th most popular music app in the iTunes store, and doesn’t even…
Does Jay Z have a special Rihannaphone? Maybe! Eh, who knows.
Two weeks ago, a happy-go-lucky troupe of ragtag recording artists (collective net worth: over $2,000,000,000) stood shoulder to shoulder on a stage and asked for your money. In return they would give you "TIDAL," a streaming music website and app that costs too much. I gave it a try. You should not.
The New Republic wants to be less white, and less old. Confusing Rihanna and Beyoncé will probably not help them reach that goal.
Only a few minutes ago, the entire music industry stood on a stage in a collective display of how rich and out of touch they are. They think you are willing to pay up to double the price of other streaming music services to pay for their streaming music service, because they are crazy.
Beyoncé's 2011 pregnancy was more than just the buildup to the birth of Blue Ivy—it was also a gestation period for crazed baby-conspiracy theorists. Why did one of the world's foremost experts in self-promotion release only a few arty pictures of her stomach to document the pregnancy? How did she manage to give…
In a new series of photos posted to Beyonce.com, Beyoncé(.com) and Jay Z show that you don't have to have a bad time just because you live on the ice planet from Interstellar. It's all about your attitude.
Two British tourists received the thrill of a lifetime Monday night when they were allowed to interrupt Beyoncé and Jay Z's private conversation as the Carters took in a basketball game in Brooklyn.
Solange Knowles—the songwriter, silent film star, and sister of Beyoncé—got married to her fiancé, Alan Ferguson, this weekend. The entire wedding party wore white, Solange and Alan rode around on antique bikes, and Jay Z was there.
Beyoncé and Jay Z are allegedly planning on spending next year living in a French chateau, where they "hope to conceive their second child." Allons-y!
Last night, rapper Jay Z and his lifelike wife Beyoncé attended a basketball game in Brooklyn, where they watched the Nets thrash the visiting Oklahoma City Thunder, 116 to 85. Or, anyway, that's what was happening in front of them. God only knows what Beyoncé was seeing.
He had a much kinder response to Ellen Grossman's similar question, but this, "Who are you?" is raw and real.
The main reaction to Jay-Z and Beyoncé's On the Run Tour seemed to be some variation of "Jay-Z sucks! Get this old asshole off the stage!" I don't disagree—Jay-Z is old, and in 2014 he doesn't really belong on a stage with Beyoncé. But let us not forget that Jay-Z was better than Beyoncé is.
The summer's most important pop-culture debate: Are Jay Z and Beyoncé—currently on tour together—getting divorced? According to rumor, yes. But according to a tipster with backstage video of the pair: No.
