Jay-Z
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Work Hard, Play Carter: The Carters Take a Stylish Time Out in Italy
Here’s what I’m doing on my summer vacation: writing hundreds of posts for The Glow Up, maybe fitting in a trip or two to midwestern meccas in Wisconsin, Minnesota or Iowa to catch up with the fam, catching a few free concerts in the park in Chicago and intermittently catching a few rays at my…
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Beyoncé and Jay-Z Are Set to Headline Global Citizen Festival to Honor Nelson Mandela in South Africa
Beyoncé and her hubby Jay-Z will be headlining this year’s Global Citizen Festival: Mandela 100. I doubt I’ll be in South Africa come Dec. 2 but I hope there’s a live stream. The news about this event keeps getting bigger and better—Oprah Winfrey will be the keynote speaker. Other hosts of the event include Naomi…
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The Carters Have Some Competition: Ashanti and Ja Rule Have an Album in the Works
Who would have thought that Ashanti and Ja Rule would be coming for the Carters? Jay-Z and Beyoncé always come out on top; the pair currently have the No. 2 spot on Billboard’s Top 200 Albums, but it looks as if they’ll soon have some “competition.” According to an Entertainment Tonight interview at the BET…
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Jay-Z Is Now President of Puma’s Basketball Operations
If nothing else, we all know that Beyoncé and Jay-Z are about their money. Every move they make in business is calculated, and this latest one from Jigga is no exception. As global shoe and sportswear company Puma looks to get back in the basketball game, it has tapped Jay-Z to be the president of…
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A List of Things That Happen Within the 1st Hour After Beyoncé Drops New Music
In chronological order: I happened to be at the Ross Park Mall on Saturday afternoon, walking from the food court to Macy’s in search of a Father’s Day gift for my dad, when I happened to notice 17 black women, laid on the mall floor, paralyzed in shock, mouths agape and wigs snatched all the…
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Flawless or Forgery? Did Bey and Jay’s Homage to the Louvre ‘Borrow’ From This Black-Owned Label?
Angelic iconography. The streets of Paris. Baroque architecture. The halls of the Louvre Museum, lined with French and Italian masterworks and iconic Greek and Egyptian sculptures that date well before Christ. The murals that adorn the ornately gilded ceilings of the museum’s Galerie d’Apollon (the Apollo gallery) … The first single and video from the…
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Back ‘On the Run’: Beyoncé and Jay-Z Hit the Road in LaQuan Smith and Dapper Dan for Gucci
I’m not screaming, you’re screaming. Jesus, be a balaclava, because the Carters have not come to play with you heaux. On Wednesday night, Bey and Jay opened their On the Run II Tour in Cardiff, Wales, and I’m sure they sounded great, but baby … Can we talk about the lewks? Goddamn, goddamn, goddamn! The…
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Beyoncé and Jay-Z Kick Off OTR II Tour in Cardiff, Wales
Beyoncé and her husband, rapper Jay-Z, kicked off their highly anticipated OTR II Tour at Principality Stadium in Cardiff, Wales, on Wednesday. Everyone was ready. Twitter users posted videos showing the couple coming onstage via an elevator. The stage setup and video imagery make it immediately apparent that this tour is all about the couple’s…
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Music, Meet Makeup: Beauty Influencers Are Taking Their Tutorials to Jay-Z’s Tidal
Makeup lovers, we’ve hit the jackpot. Tidal, Jay-Z’s music-streaming service, is now slaying the makeup game! We can now watch our fave gurus give beauty tutorials on iconic music-video looks on the app’s beauty show, Get the Look. First up, we have Rosa Chang-Crespo—also known as Rosita Applebum on YouTube. Chang-Crespo kicks things off by…
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I Love This Song: George Zimmerman Tells Court He’s a Broke-Ass Bitch Who’s $2.5 Million in Debt With No Income
George Zimmerman, who killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in 2012, has revealed that he is $2.5 million in debt, with no income on top of that. Cue the world’s smallest violin. According to the Orlando Sentinel, the details surrounding Zimmerman’s finances, or lack thereof, were filed in a Seminole County court in support of a request…