It has to feel pretty good to be Pharrell Williams right now. The Neptunes producer is featured on a couple of buzzing hits in Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky” and Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” singles. But what fans of Skateboard P should be most excited about is his upcoming collaboration with Jay-Z, and his confidence in […]
In just three weeks, director Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby film update will hit theaters nationwide. The soundtrack boasts big names such as will.i.am., Q-Tip, Fergie, and others. Jay-Z, an executive producer for the soundtrack, had fans turning heads when it was announced the project would featuring an original song from the rapper. A snippet of the […]
You can consider Pitbull to be an expert on all things Cuba. The Miami rapper dropped his own freestyle take on Jay-Z’s much discussed new song, “Open Letter.” Pit uses his version to drop some Cuban history, good and bad, and to comment on the political chit chatter Hova and Beyoncé’s wedding anniversary trip has caused.
When Jay-Z dropped “Open Letter,” it was certain that a wave of freestyles were sure to follow. Pitbull led things off with a 16 that was met with mixed reviews. Luckily, it didn’t take much longer for the Internets to receive a quality verse courtesy of Common.
The White House wasn’t going to let Jay-Z rap about a conversation with the president without giving a response. Hov name drops President Obama on his new track “Open Letter,” claiming that he spoke with the commander in chief about going to Cuba.
Although Roc Nation artist J. Cole featured crooner Miguel on his new “Power Trip” single, the North Carolina native flexed his vocal chords a bit for the track as well. Cole speaks on his new love of singing, and talks up competing with “white people” at the Grammy Awards in a recent radio interview.
Stacey Dash’s latest flailing grasp at relevancy occurred earlier today (April 9) when the Clueless star tweeted a little slander in the direction of Jay-Z and wife, Beyoncé. The physically stunning, if not exactly politically astute, actress used social media to blurt out an attack that seems scripted by her brand new Republican friends.
In a recent move to merge digital with print, VIBE magazine has digital covers to accompany the ones found on newsstands. For their April/May issue, Miguel and Kendrick Lamar grace the digital issue cover, with individual print covers as well.
Marco Rubio, a Republican and noted Tupac stan, is still mad that Beyoncé & Jay-Z’s got to travel to Cuba. Although the couple’s trip was approved by the Treasury Department, the Florida Senator is calling for the Obama administration to explain why they were allowed to travel to the island nation.
Jay-Z and Beyoncé’s celebration of their fifth wedding anniversary in Cuba prompted a pair of Republican lawmakers to demand an investigation of the trip. Last Friday (April 5), Florida Reps. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Mario Diaz-Balart sent a letter to the Director of the Office of Foreign Assets Control at the Treasury Department inquiring about the superstars’ […]
Apparently in need of a late night burger fix, it’s been alleged that the animated Busta Rhymes had a meltdown over having to wait in line at a South Beach fast food joint. Employees at Miami’s Cheeseburger Baby say that the “dungeon dragon” verbally assaulted them with insults and hom0phobic slurs after being delivered his […]
UPDATE: Audio added below. Bet you didn’t see this news on the horizon. Kid Cudi has announced his departure from G.O.O.D. Music.
