Jay Z and Nas at Nas' birthday bash last night at Catch in NYC.

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Birdman Predicts Jay-Z is On His Way Out the Game

Cash Money co-founder Brian "Birdman" Williams recently sat down for an interview where he dished on Lil Wayne & Drake's joint album, which he loosely compared to Watch the Throne. He says the album is still in the works and gives a fresh approach to Jay & Ye's new album.
"I listened to a few songs [off Watch The Throne] and it feels like an older feel to me. I think with Drake and Wayne, they young. They young cats. You got 23 and 28. Then you got Jay-Z and them, who are older and really on their way out the game. Then you got Wayne and Drake and them, who are still youthful [...] So, it's two different types of music all the way across the board."
Birdman also added that he thinks what Jay-Z and Kanye are doing is "great for the game," but he's confident Drake and Lil Wayne's more youthful approach will take over.
Do you agree?

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Jay-Z Tops 2011 Forbes Hip-Hop List

Jay-Z returns to the top of the Forbes‘ Hip-Hop Cash King list ranking in an estimated $37 million over the past year. Rounding out the top three are Diddy ($35 million) and Kanye West ($16 million).

Hip-hop’s reigning Cash King continues to reap the benefits of a 10-year $150 million Live Nation deal, as well as stakes in the New Jersey Nets, the 40/40 Club chain, ad firm Translation and others. This year marked the first time he out-earned wife Beyonce since their marriage in 2008. For more on the business of hip-hop, check out Empire State of Mind: How Jay-Z Went From Street Corner to Corner Office.

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Track Listings

1. No Church In the Wild (feat. Frank Ocean)

2. Lift Off (feat. Beyoncé)

3. N---as In Paris

4. Otis (feat. Otis Redding)

5. Gotta Have it

6. New Day

7. That's My Bitch

8. Welcome to the Jungle

9. Who's Gon Stop Me

10. Murder to Excellence

11. Made In America (feat. Frank Ocean)

12. Why I Love You (feat. Mr. Hudson)

Jay-Z & Kanye West ft Frank Ocean- No Church In the Wild

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Jay-Z & Kanye West ft Beyonce- Lift Off

Jay-Z & Kanye West- Niggas in Paris (Watch The Throne)
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Jay-Z & Kanye West Ft. Otis Redding - Otis

Jay-Z & Kanye West- Gotta Have It 

Jay-Z & Kanye West- New Day 

Kanye West & Jay-Z (feat. La Roux) - That's My Bitch (prod. by Q-Tip) 

Jay-Z & Kanye West- Welcome To The Jungle

Jay-Z & Kanye West- Who Gon Stop Me

Jay-Z & Kanye West - Murder To Excellence

 

Jay-Z & Kanye West ft. Frank Ocean- Made In America 

Jay-Z & Kanye West ft. Mr. Hudson- Why I Love You

Kanye & Jay-Z Watch The Throne Studio Pics Vol. 2

MTO started it and apparently, SC is gonna finish it. Enjoy some unwatermarked flicks from the WTT sessions at Life and Times and don’t forget to pre-order a piece of music history. Rumored August 2 release date is still unconfirmed.

Jay-Z Performs At Roseland Ballroom

Jay-Z held his first New York concert this year at the Roseland Ballroom last night. The gig was part of Upfront Week for Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim. In the house were DJ Khaled, Fabolous, Swizz Beatz, and Pharrell.
Hov switched up the set list and even performed “Intro” and “Thank You” (see above) over The Boondocks theme song. Under the cut, he segues “Allure” into “Dead Presidents”. Below that, he brings out Swizzy for “On To The Next One”.

Jay Z talks illumanati, money & jealousy "people can't handle when somebody is successful"

Honestly... it's always been laughable to me when i hear people accuse Jay of being in the Illumanati... it's beyond ridiculous to me. To us regular people Jay Z is considered wealthy... but, compared to the type of powerful people who run the world who got OLD MONEY... Jay's money is considered small petty cash.

Jay is not a Multi Billionaire but people still believe he's a part of the elite group of people who run the world. really? Does that really even make logical sense to you? Do you know how much the "Real Rockafellers" are worth? They have OLD money, they are worth at least OVER $100 BILLION. Multi Millions is NOT the same and multi billions (trust me).

Jay decided to address the Illumanati rumors and talk about being rich and the jealousy of others....

"It may sound arrogant," he says, "but I just think people can't handle when somebody is successful. Something has gotta be wrong: you gotta be down with some higher power. And I guess when someone else is successful, it makes you feel like maybe you're a failure. So it can't be you, it has to be some other force." (Sky) via SOHH

Jay-Z Covers SKY

Hov gets extra pillows and seat back love on the May cover of Delta Airlines in-flight magazine, SKY. No need to book a ticket, the entire issue is available to read here.

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Words From Dat Boy Hov “Jay-Z”

In this exclusive excerpt, the notoriously private megastar and businessman offers a rare and honest glimpse into his life, from growing up in Brooklyn to building an empire.
My father was crazy for detail. I get that from him. Even though we didn’t live together after I was nine, there are some things he instilled in me early that I never lost. He’d walk my cousin B-High and me through Times Square — this is when it was still known as Forty Deuce — and we’d people watch. Back then, Times Square was crazy grimy. Pimps, prostitutes, dealers, addicts, gangs, all the s— from the seventies that other people saw in blaxploitation flicks, Manhattan had in living color. Kids from Harlem and Hell’s Kitchen used Times Square as their backyard — they’d be out there deep, running in and out of karate flicks, breakdancing — but for Brooklyn kids, like me and B-High, midtown Manhattan might as well have been a plane ride away.
My father would take us to Lindy’s and we’d get these big-ass steak fries. We would sit in the restaurant looking out the window onto the streets, and play games that exercised our observational skills. Like my pops would make us guess a woman’s dress size. There was nothing he missed about a person. He was really good about taking in all the nonverbal clues people give you to their character, how to listen to the matrix of a conversation, to what a person doesn’t say.
For my pops it was just as important to take in places as people. He wanted me to know my own neighborhood inside out. When we’d go to visit my aunt and uncle and cousins my father would give me the responsibility of leading, even though I was the youngest. When I was walking with him, he always walked real fast (he said that way if someone’s following you, they’ll lose you) and he expected me to not only keep up with him but to remember the details of the things I was passing. I had to know which bodega sold laundry detergent and who only stocked candy and chips, which bodega was owned by Puerto Ricans and which one was run by Arabs, who taped pictures of themselves holding AKs to the Plexiglas where they kept the loose candy.
He was teaching me to be confident and aware of my surroundings. There’s no better survival skill you could teach a boy in the ghetto, and he did it demonstratively, not by sitting me down and saying, “Yo, always look around at where you are,” but by showing me. Without necessarily meaning to, he taught me how to be an artist.
I GIVE YOU THE NEWS WITH A TWIST, IT’S JUST HIS GHETTO POINT OF VIEW
That same kind of close observation is at the heart of rap. Great rappers from the earliest days distinguished themselves by looking closely at the world around them and describing it in a clever, artful way. And then they went further than just describing it. They started commenting on it in a critical way. Rap’s first great subjects were ego-tripping and partying, but before long it turned into a tool for social commentary.
It was kind of a natural move, really. The 1970s were a time when black art in general was being used as a tool for social change, whether it was in the poetry of people like the Last Poets or in the R&B of Marvin Gaye or Donny Hathaway or in movies like “Shaft.” And politics had a real cultural angle, too. The Black Panthers weren’t just about revolution and Marxism, they were also about changing style and language. Jesse Jackson recited poems like “I Am Somebody” to schoolchildren of my generation. Art and politics and culture were all mixed up together. So it was almost obligatory that any popular art include some kind of political message. Some early rap was explicitly political, like Afrika Bambaataa’s Zulu Nation movement. But other rappers played it safe and nonspecific:They’d throw in a line about peace, or supporting your brotherman, or staying in school, or whatever. It took a while before rappers as a whole really sharpened their commentary, but, again, it was hard not to — there was so much to comment about if your eyes were open to what was going on around you.
There was the general squalor of the ghetto, which got aired out in early songs like Run-DMC’s first hit, “It’s Like That,” or “The Message” by Melle Mel. But over time, rappers started really going in on specific issues. Crooked cops were attacked by groups like NWA. Drug dealers were targeted by KRS-One. Drug addicts were mocked by Brand Nubian. Ice Cube called out Uncle Toms. Groups like Poor Righteous Teachers denounced shady churches with bootleg preachers. Queen Latifah was pushing back against misogyny. Salt-N-Pepa were rallying around safe sex. Public Enemy recorded manifestoes on their albums addressing a dozen different issues. You could name practically any problem in the hood and there’d be a rap song for you.
The hip-hop generation never gets credit for it, but those songs changed things in the hood. They were political commentary, but they weren’t based on theory or books. They were based on reality, on close observation of the world we grew up in. The songs weren’t moralistic, but they created a stigma around certain kinds of behavior, just by describing them truthfully and with clarity. One of the things we corrected was the absent-father karma our fathers’ generation’s created. We made it some real bitch s— to bounce on your kids. Whether it was Ed O.G. & Da Bulldogs with “Be a Father to Your Child,” or Big mixing rage with double entendre (pop duke left ma duke, the f— took the back way), we as a generation made it shameful to not be there for your kids.
I’M TALKING BOUT REAL S—, THEM PEOPLE’S PLAYIN’
Artists of all kinds have a platform and, if they’re any good, have a clearer vision of what’s going on in the world around them. In my career I’ve never set out to make songs that function as public service announcements (not even the song “Public Service Announcement”) with a few exceptions, one of which is the song “Meet the Parents.” But in honoring the lesson of my father — to pay attention — and the lesson of hip hop — which is to tell the truth — I’ve been able to create my own kind of social commentary. Artists can have greater access to reality; they can see patterns and details and connections that other people, distracted by the blur of life, might miss. Just sharing that truth can be a very powerful thing.

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Video: Jay-Z In Miami For His “Decoded” Book Event

Jay-Z reveals "Decoded" book at Miami's Delano Hotel (10/20/2010) from The305.com on Vimeo.

CONFIRMED!!! BEYONCE'S PREGNANT!!

There have been rumors of Bey being pregnant, and unconfirmed reports of her pregnancy . .. but never this.

 


MediaTakeOut.com can OFFICIALLY CONFIRM to the world that Beyonce and Jay Z are PREGNANT . . . with their first child together.

MediaTakeOut.com first caught wind of Bey's pregnancy about 4 weeks ago. At the time, we were asked by people close to Beyonce to HOLD THE REPORT, until Bey reached her 3rd month of gestation.

Well yesterday, Beyonce reached 3 months . .. and so now the EMBARGO has been lifted. Congrats to both Jay Z and Beyonce, we know they'll make GREAT PARENTS!!! The baby's due date is mid April (the same month that Jay and Bey married).

We expect bey to issue a press release through the popular press release friendly People magazine any day now. When you see it, son't forget that you heard it here first . . . on MediaTakeOut.com, the most VISITED gossip website on the planet!!!

Miami Police Paint Jay-Z As Gangbanger

Every step you take, they remind you ghetto. In effort to curb Miami’s gang activity, local authorities created this banner using Jay-Z’s likeness. The depiction uses two press photos from Jay-Z’s Blueprint run nine years ago. Clearer image after the jump.
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