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Jay-Z acknowledges "a little nepotism" in the bookings of Roc Nation-affiliated artists like Rihanna and Swedish House Mafia at the Barclays Center, the Brooklyn arena he owns a minor stake it. Jay-Z tells Billboard he wants his eight-night residency ... Read Article
And the encore didn't disappoint. After working confidently through tracks like "I Just Wanna Love U (Give It to Me)," Jay eventually quipped that he should have started the show with his encore setlist. Perhaps, but maybe those who had come to see Jay ... Read Article
Jay-Z's contributions to the new video game NBA 2K13 amounted to more than slapping his name on the packaging next to an “executive producer” credit. Publishing label 2K Sports says the rapper influenced key aspects of design and used his clout to ... Read Article
I went to the first concert at the Barclays Center on Friday night — Jay-Z himself, on an eight-night stand. I took the subway over after work, and walked around the mini-mall across the street, past the Nets and the Rocawear stores that open onto ... Read Article
It's been a long time since Jay-Z has been the underdog, but even with all mountains Shawn Corey Carter has planted his flag on, he still finds inspiration in what they say he couldn't do. Hov continued his eight-show Barclays christening on Monday ... Read Article
NBA 2K13 is a masterpiece from top to bottom, including the soundtrack executive producer Jay-Z threw together for our listening pleasure. Actually, I shouldn't say "threw together"; this year's set list was carefully compiled, touching all avenues of ... Read Article
Friday's show was the first of eight, which Jay-Z brought up several times during the night by referring to himself as “eight shows H-O” (a reference to Hova, one of several nicknames). Jay-Z made two goals explicit: remind the crowd that Brooklyn was ... Read Article
It was on this particular record that Jay-Z rapped, “I got 4 nephews, and they all write-ing/They all young and wild, plus they all like Beans.” Unfortunately, the following line may not have manifested the way Hov would have liked, as he confessed his ... Read Article
According to Argent, Jay-Z felt so strongly about including the 1992 team -- the first to include active NBA players with a roster packed with superstars such as Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Scottie Pippen, John Stockton and Karl Malone -- that in one ... Read Article
After the birth of Jay-Z and Beyonce's daughter, a blogger named Renee Gardener wrote a poem about the use of the word “bitch” in Jay-Z's music that made it sound like he was swearing off that particular epithet in his music: “Before I got in the game ... Read Article
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