It was the beginning of Austin City Limits 2011 and the end of Kanye West's "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Tour," and it was awesome. Kanye put on a three-act passion play to close out the first ...
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Lil Wayne leads the roster of hip hop star nominees for BET Networks' sixth annual BET Hip Hop Awards. Wayne, with 18 nominations, is followed by Kanye West and Wiz Khalifa with 9 each, and Rick Ross ...
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Creative panhandling: impending spawn of Jay-Z and Beyonce edition. Would you give this guy a buck for effort?
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Beyonce, I'm really happy for you, and I'mma let you finish, but Kanye stole the best VMA scene of all time.
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It's official Beyonce is pregnant! The superstar singer confirmed the good news while walking the black carpet at this evenings MTV Video Music Awards.
During the VMA pre-awards show photos began circulating around Twitter that showed the singer's ...
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Best rapper alive Jay-Z keeps it gangsta when he's asked about Beyonce most of the time, answering no questions about his wife and clamming up in an almost kind of, "I dare you to ask more questions" ...
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The highly anticipated Kanye West, Jay-Z album "Watch The Throne" is going to drop soon and the first song from the album titled H.A.M. launched the album while samples of an Otis Redding track takes the album to a ...
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A promotional campaign created by Droga5 in collaboration with rapper Jay-Z and his memoir Decoded has won a Grand Prix award in the integrated category at this years Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity.
Droga5 placed replicated pages from ...
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For some reason with Jay-Z's expression in this pic, it's just kinda priceless.
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Rapper Jay-Z has spoken out in defense of his much maligned friend Kanye West on the subject of both his outburst at a telethon to raise money for victims of Hurricane Katrina as well as his stunt ...
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Jay-Z, head of Roc Nation, confirmed this morning that Willow Smith is the label's newest artist following the success of her track "Whip My Hair."
In a statement to AllHipHop.com, Jay-Z explained why the label had chosen Smith:
"We ...
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If you haven't heard Jay-Z's new New York anthem "Empire State of Mind," well, who moved the rock?
If you have, you know some of the song is devoted to Hova's Yankee fandom, and the rapper says he ...
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White Stripes, Raconteurs and Dead Weather singer/guitarist Jack White has confirmed that he recorded a collaboration with rap icon Jay-Z.
White told British GQ that the two got together and recorded a track a few weeks ago, and ...
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Although as a rabid Jay-Z fan who finds "Empire State of Mind" to be the hottest rap track in the past 12 months, I should love this social media parody, I have to admit I kind of ...
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Via Gawker comes this funny clip from Jay-Z on BBC One's Friday Night with Jonathan Ross.
Wherein Hova discusses Valentine's Day, Skype sex and how he actually invented the hand-shaking "put a ring on it" dance. He also ...
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If you watch the Colbert Report, you know that Stephen's been begging for an iPad all week (I think he finagled an iPhone that way), sometimes just looking into the camera and saying, "I want an iPad. ...
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Twitter is buzzing this afternoon about the firing of 100.3 The Beat DJ Charlamagne Tha God after rapper Beanie Sigel took a few shots at Hova last week on DJ Charlamagne's show.
The hashtag #cthagodgotfired is hot on ...
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Jay-Z opened Game 2 of the World Series last night with a performance of his new New York anthem "Empire State of Mind," featuring Alicia Keys. (Video below.)
Players and fans completely rocked out to the song, off ...
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Jay-Z was today's guest on Oprah, and he wasn't shy in offering an opinion or two on matters past and present.
Oprah asked (among other things) about Jay-Z's drug-dealing past, his marriage to Beyonce and his relationship with ...
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An unsubstantiated rumor currently doing the rounds claims that Kanye West interrupting Taylor Swift at the VMA's was a setup to make Beyonce look good.
The likelihood of the rumor being true is slim at best, but after ...
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This is Roc Nation, pledge your allegiance!
Jay-Z (Brooklyn, stand up!) dropped a new track at 9:11 AM today- titled Run This Town and featuring Hov's protege Rihanna and frequent Jay-Z collaborator Kanye West. Run This Town ...
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With Jay-Z's new single "Death of Autotune" (link is to the BET Awards performance last night) slamming the way-overused way to disguise lack of talent audio processing tool, a lot of people want to know what exactly ...
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