Jay-Z’s legal team hired a retired cop to sniff around the neighborhood of a former president of a perfume company involved in the rap star’s cologne breach-of-contract trial starting this week in New York. Donald Loftus, the ex-CEO of Parlux, cited health problems and fear of Covid-19 in his bid …
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The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame has officially announced this year’s inductees: Foo Fighters, The Go-Go’s, Jay-Z, Carole King, Todd Rundgren, and Tina Turner will join the class of 2021 in the Performers category. Additionally, LL Cool J, Billy Preston, and Randy Rhoads will receive the Musical Excellence Award. …
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Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey has donated $10 million to Reform Alliance, the prison reform non-profit co-founded by Meek Mill, Michael Rubin and Jay-Z. The funds, donated as part of Dorsey’s #startsmall initiative, will go toward boosting COVID-19 relief efforts in U.S. prisons and delivering personal protective equipment (PPE) …
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Beyoncé delivered a heartwarming speech after accepting the 2019 Entertainer of the Year Award at the NAACP Image Awards Saturday night. Before beginning her speech at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, she told the audience she wrote her thoughts down ahead of time. The speech also served as a …
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The defiant centerpiece of Meek Mill‘s new Championships album is “What’s Free,” a bristling collaboration with Jay-Z and Rick Ross. Mill slyly subverts the National Anthem, quoting lines from Francis Scott Key even as he suggests that, for many non-white Americans, the “land of the free” is anything but: “Locked …
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EDITORS’ PICK: The Carters, Everything Is Love “Everything is Love is the refreshing final chapter in a trilogy of albums that includes Beyoncé’s unburdening 2016 odyssey Lemonade and Jay-Z’s 2017 conscience-stricken apologia 4:44, glimpses inside a strained marriage from both sides,” writes Sheldon Pearce. “Everything Is Love is couples counseling …
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In the video for Beyoncé and Jay-Z‘s “Apeshit,” the first visual from the pair’s surprise joint album Everything Is Love, the two stars romp through the Louvre in Paris, seizing center stage in a high-culture palace that – like most Western art museums – historically made little room for non-white …
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Jay-Z celebrated Meek Mill’s release from prison Tuesday, writing on Facebook, “Today, Meek Mill, a son of Philadelphia, is a free man.” Jay-Z has been one of Meek Mill’s most outspoken supporters since the rapper was incarcerated last November for violating probation stemming from a 2008 conviction on drug and …
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Jay-Z made a surprise appearance alongside the parents of Trayvon Martin at a Miami event that honored the late teenager Saturday. Standing next to Martin’s mother Sybrina Fulton and father Tracy Martin at the Betty T. Ferguson Amphitheater, Jay-Z delivered a short speech to the hundreds of marchers at the …
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Jay-ZremakesFriends in the video for thethought-provoking track “Moonlight” off his latest album, 4:44. The rapper released the video via Tidal, like previous clips, promptly at 4:44 p.m. Friday. Get Outstar Lil Rel Howery (Get Out), Atlanta’s Lakeith Stanfield and comedian Jerrod Carmichael play the male protagonists, while Insecurecreator Issa Rae, …
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