Jay-Z

Organizers behind the annual Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Manchester, Tennessee announced the dates and official line-up of the 2010 event this week. The ninth annual four-day camping and music festival will be held on from June 10th through the 13th on the same 700-acre farm in Manchester, Tennessee -- 60 miles south of Nashville. The final Bonnaroo 2010 line-up will total over 125 bands and over 20 comedians performing on 13 stages over four days. Headliners this year […]

New Brunswick, NJ – The Rutgers Symphony Orchestra and Maestro Kynan Johns will be throwin’ it down Jay-Z style Sunday evening as they appear with the legendary rapper in a Super Bowl XLIV music video. The 2-minute teaser is set to air just minutes before the 6:28 p.m. ET kickoff between the New Orleans Saints and the Indianapolis Colts. Appearing in a music video is “outside the mainstream of classical music,” admits Johns, director of orchestras at Mason Gross School […]

In support of the current disaster in Haiti, three music superstars are coming together to record a new track, as a plea for Haiti relief funds. In a series of tweets over the weekend, producer Swizz Beatz revealed that he, Jay-Z and U2's Bono have laid down a record about the tragedy in Haiti, but as of press time, its title was unknown. "ME, BONO, HOVA, HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY ABOUT HAITI," Swizzy wrote on his Twitter page (@THEREALSWIZZZ). "STAY […]

Jay-Z's new avant-garde video for "On To the Next One" — with images of ram skulls, black crows and a Joker-like clown — has some bloggers talking that Jay is dabbling in demonic imagery and Freemason symbolism. Hov thinks that's ridiculous. "I got a lot of money," Hov told Power 105.1 radio host Ed Lover Wednesday. "When people get a lot of money, they start getting those rumors like Tom Cruise, Willie Smith. That's ridiculous." Hov is also the subject […]

Consider it a late Christmas present from Hova Claus. Jay-Z announced Monday (December 28) that the next video from The Blueprint 3 will premiere during "NBC's New Year's Eve With Carson Daly." The Brooklyn MC is set to debut a clip for "On to the Next One," a futuristic number produced by Swizz Beatz. The video arrives on the heels of the Anthony Mandler-directed "Young Forever," which hit the Internet last week. That video was serviced for overseas use only, […]

T Pain is trying his best to get assimilated back in the rap game after having his image tarnished with his “f**k Jay-Z” alcohol induced rant. As previously reported, the auto-tune aristocrat was offended by Jay Z's diss to the one thing that's made him famous, auto-tune. He spoke out against Jay saying: “ Jay-Z is 59 years-old so I don't think he has the right to say what's good and what's not. I mean if anybody's dead, it should […]

As Jay-Z is celebrating the release of The Blueprint III and his upcoming “Answer The Call” Concert on Friday, a one-night only concert featuring the rapper ends with a man being rushed to a hospital. A dispute between two men after the show resulted in one man being stabbed. The incident took place on Tuesday in Chicago as Jay-Z was holding a performance at the of Blues. At the close of the show, an argument ensued between two women and […]

Tickets sold out for Jay-Z’s 9-11 benefit concert yesterday (September 8) in 15 minutes, as scalpers scooped up large amounts of seats to resell for profit, according to the New York Daily News. As XXLMag.com previously reported, proceeds from the show, titled “Answer the Call,” are going to the New York Police and Fire Widows and Children’s Benefit Fund. Close to 20,000 tickets were purposely set low at $54.50 a pop for the Madison Square Garden event, but scalped tickets […]

Jay-Z has confirmed his hopes to release a series of books, with one book describing the meaning behind some of his most disputed songs on track to hit shelves first. During an interview on Atlanta radio station V-103, Jay told radio personality Ryan Cameron all about his literary plans. “Well it’s not done, the other two books, it hasn’t kicked in yet, I haven’t signed that deal,” he said about the rumored three book contract. “But I’ve done a deal […]