Willow and Jay z

SHE may be only 10 years old but Willow Smith gets no kid glove treatment from her record boss Jay-Z.

The Whip My Hair singer express to Kiss FM: “Whenever I have a creative block, he’s always like, ‘Do what artists do when they have a block. Make a song about it’.”

But actor Will Smith’s daughter has no such difficulties whipping up a wild image, with Aunty Gaga on speed-dial.

Willow sat on her knee at the Grammys last month and says: “We were talking about my outfit and her shoulders. She’s awesome.”

Jay-Z Worried about Rihanna

Jay- Z worried about Rihanna and he asked that Rihanna to wants to some time to her hectic schedule as she's working too hard.

American rapper Rihanna, who started his career in the recording of Def Jam signed him for. Near them, are very Jay-Z - Rihanna alleged relationship has become very difficult to push myself this time.

A source told, “Rihanna’s professional, works hard and stays away from drugs and alcohol, but Jay wants her to be careful. He told her to take a holiday for a week – she’s been working flat out and needs to get over the bronchitis, which he’s sure she’s developed as a result of stress. He told her she’ll be alright, but to keep her head down.”

Jay-Z said to consider to Rihanna meeting up with her ex-boyfriend Chris Brown.

Chris five years 'probation and six months' admitted punching, cutting and in 2009 in his car after Rihanna choking her was sentenced to community labor. He also was ordered to stay away from him in industry events, but recently brought in a state that a low was that a strong change.

The source explained, “Jay said she is a role model for a lot of your kids. A little bit of controversy is alright, he said, but too much and she could very easily lose all the respect she has worked so hard to win overnight”.

Jay Z joined "Watch The Throne" album

According to the report that Jay-Z and Kanye West are joined the album 'Watch The Throne" that will be release on 1 March.

West claiming for the previous week that he was filmed at a New Year Party album would be release in “this week”.

In London past autumn album 'Watch The Throne' recording sessions. West, who produced Jay-Z’s ‘The Blueprint’, said that their songs were “so modern so hood so club so hip hop”.

Jay-Z's Life is Decoded

AT the age of 40 JAY-Z has been through more than most people experience in their lifetime.

The rap superstar earns millions every year, but started out life in NYC's Marcy Projects.
So, he's the perfect subject for a book of memoirs.
Jay-Z, real name Shawn Carter, is gearing up to release a book called Decoded featuring interviews with friends and family.
The book will chart his rise to fame from his early years as a kid growing up in a tough neighbourhood, to being a teen drug dealer and his successful hip-hop career.
Who knows, he may even talk about his controversial Glasto appearance and the time he confronted me in Paper.
He has teamed with a writer from hip-hop lifestyle magazine The Source to pen the book, which was also feature detailed discussions about his lyrics.

Personal Toilet Jay Z

'Jay-Z takes his own toilet roll to festivals' rockers Kasabian were amazed to learn.
Jay-Z takes his own toilet roll everywhere with him.
The '99 Problems' hitmaker stunned fellow T in the Park performers Kasabian at the Scottish festival currently when they spotted him backstage, and the 'Fire' rockers now claim they will only feel famous when they get to the same level of access to luxury items.
Kasabian singer Tom Meighan revealed: "The reason Kasabian aren't as big as Jay-Z yet? We need to have our own festival toilet paper
"I noticed at T that he had a huge circus around him, his own toilet and his own toilet paper.
"That's what we're aiming for next. Our own loo roll and then we'll know we're massive."
Jay-Z - who caused controversy when he became the first hip hop artist to headline the world famous Glastonbury festival in 2008 has previously admitted he finds performing at multi artist shows a "challenge."
He said: "At festivals, some people are there to see you, some people are there to see the act before you, some people have no idea who you are. So how do you take that audience of all those different people and make them focus on one point? That's the challenge."

Will There Be Beef? Spike Lee and Jay-Z

The New York Times tries to start a little trouble today with a piece in the "Sports" section titled “Jay-Z vs Spike Lee.” It’s all about the brewing competition between the Knicks and Nets to sign about to be free agent LeBron James. Though Jay-Z and Spike Lee have worked together in the past and are not in a competition of any kind — Jay-Z owns a small part of the Nets; Spike just owns a courtside seat to the Knicks — it sure is catchy to pretend they are! Thus, the Times quotes a brand consultant as saying, “This actually highlights the old blood new blood disparity between both teams. You have new ownership with the Nets, and a vibrant contemporary urban personality like Jay-Z. With the Knicks, you have the Dolans and Spike who, God love him, has been around a bit, and is showing some gray in that beard.” Damn, Spike! Jay-Z just called you old! Oh, wait, that wasn’t really him. Can we get a dis track anyway?

Jay-Z: Jay-Z declines to release his tell-all autobiography

"Dream Hampton" Jay-Z is refusing to release his autobiography because he believes it will unveil more than what his fans need to know about him. Rapper insists he has covered almost all the information in the book on record but is now having second thoughts to publish it, as the tome will open everything about his personal life including his fatherless background.
"It's too much. For the book, I was interviewed, people close to me were interviewed, so I was learning a lot of things I didn't know as a child,” The Daily Star quoted the singer, as saying. He added: "It's not anything I haven't said in the past, in songs. It''s just more detailed... You can say exactly how everything went."He also admits that the book has given him a fresh view of his father, who left the family when the rapper to be was only 11. "It was still wrong... that he left, but he did stick around at a time when it wasn't cool or popular. At the time married my mom when guys were just leaving, and you'd never even meet your dad,” he told Rolling Stone mag. "So it (book) made me ease up a little bit in how I felt about him."

Jay-Z: Not Persuading Lebron James to Sign With Nets

Wants Jay-Z to make it clear that he is taking no part in influencing his nice friend and NBA MVP Lebron James to sign with the New Jersey Nets. In fact, Jay who is a minority owner of the team, noted that his relationship with the NBA baller will stay in tact regardless of what team he decides to go with. "That's his decision," Jay told Rolling Stone of the rumors that James will join the Nets once they head over to Brooklyn. After several seasons with his hometown team, the Cleveland Cavaliers, James is set to become the most sought after free-agent in the league once his contract officially ends July 1. Among the many teams looking to snag the 24 year old is the New York Knicks who have launched a very public 'C'mon Lebron' campaign which includes a website, ads and a Facebook page. Despite all the hype, Jay maintains that he has no plans of persuading James. "We're friends -- we've still gotta hang out! I don't want to convince somebody to do something, then have to see him and say, 'Uh, yeah, we're 4-30 ... sorry.''Since Hov only owns a piece of the team, the choice to sign the two-time MVP is left up to Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov. Hov credits the Russian-born billionaire, who he first met at New York City's Four Season's Hotel, as one of his inspirations. "I'd been staying there for 10 years, and I always thought I was at the top level," he said. "But when I met Prokhorov, they took me up to this extra, extra room that I had never even heard of before. Now there's something else to shoot for. There's always an extra level you don't know about." Plans to bring the Nets to Jay's Brooklyn stomping grounds continue to move forward. Earlier this year the 40-year-old attended the groundbreaking ceremony at Atlantic Yards, the site of the Barclay Center which will house the team in 2012.

Jay-Z: 'Record labels needs to be smarter to survive'

Jay Z has spoken out about the music industry, saying that record labels need to be "smarter" in order to survive.

The rapper, who recently scooped the award for Best International Male at the Brits, explained in an interview with BBC Newsbeat that less is more when it comes to succeeding.

"Records are not selling as many as they were before and you've still got to go out and pay the Bentley bill," he explained. "People have to be smarter about how they A&R, and what they put out, record companies need to catch up to that, someone needs to send them the memo."
He added: "I remember the first year I was at Def Jam we put out 56 artists. There's not 56 great artists in the world, and this is one company. One company operating for like, 80 artists in a year. That's just too many."

Meanwhile, Jay Z has announced two UK arena shows in Manchester and Birmingham in June, and will headline this year's Wireless festival.

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Bono, Jay-Z, Chris Martin, Madonna perform at Haiti earthquake telethon

Jay Z, Madonna, Bono, Chris Martin and Rihanna were among the major stars who performed at a George Clooney-organised benefit concert for the Haiti earthquake victims last night (January 22).

Actors Julia Roberts and Brad Pitt were also in attendance during the two-hour Hope For Haiti telethon, which was broadcast on all major US TV channels, websites including YouTube and on MTV in the UK. It was also broadcast on Haiti's Radio One.

"At the core of every religion is the belief that we care for one another, we take care of each other especially in times of need," said Clooney. "The Haitian people need our help, they need to know they're not alone, they need to know that we still care."

An estimated 1.5 million people have been left homeless by the 7.0-magnitude quake. At present the death toll is thought to be 150,000.

During the show, Beyonce sang 'Halo', accompanied on the piano by Chris Martin.
She changed the lyrics, and sang "Haiti we can see your halo, we pray you won't fade away".
Jay-Z debuted a new song, 'Stranded (Haiti Mon Amour)' with U2's Bono and The Edge and Rihanna also contributing.

More than 100 Hollywood actors and musicians took part, with some of them, including director Steven Spielberg and Stevie Wonder, manning the phones to take donations from the public.
Clint Eastwood, Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Robert De Niro, Matt Damon, Denzel Washington, Daniel Craig and Jack Nicholson were among the other names rounded up by Clooney to take part.

Bruce Springsteen, Wyclef Jean and Mary J Blige also performed.

Madonna, who performed 'Like A Prayer' during the show, donated $250,000 (£155,000), Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie gave $1m (£620,000) while supermodel Gisele Bündchen gave $1.5m (£0.93m). Clooney himself donated another $1m.

Guests deliver powerful show, Jay Z

Jay-Z's early in performance Friday night, he made a reference to this weekend's Penn State game against Eastern Illinois.
"On my way here, I bumped into a couple of people from Eastern Illinois who were talking about a big game tomorrow," Jay-Z said to a booing conference. "I don't know how you feel about that, but if you run this town, make some noise."
He then led the crowd in a chant of "na na na na, hey hey hey, goodbye," before his 10 piece band burst into a horn and guitar heavy rendition of "D.O.A. (Death of Autotune)."
The performer started the evening by ascending to center stage through a trapdoor, where The Hov welcomed his disciples, who nearly filled the Bryce Jordan Center.
With the BJC as the first stop on his tour, the performer began with a one two punch of "Run This Town" and "D.O.A. (Death of Autotune)," taking control early and dwarfing the crowd reaction from openers N.E.R.D. and Wale.
Lasting about an hour, the set featuring hits from throughout his career and a handful of new songs from his latest album, The Blueprint 3.
About halfway through the set, Bridget Kelly, one of Jay-Z's latest Roc Nation signees, appeared on the stage and sang backup for a few songs, including "Heart of the City (Ain't No Love)" and Alicia Keys' part on "Empire State of Mind."
Pharrell Williams and Roc Nation performer J. Cole also took the stage to perform their respective guest spots from Jay-Z's latest album.
After the set, amid a wave of applause and "We are Penn State" chants, Jay-Z's voice was heard amid the dark arena. "Thank you," he said simply, before returning to the stage to perform the song of the same name.
A rather hefty encore followed, featuring a cluster of brief one verse renditions of four songs as well as a number of full songs.
About 30 seconds into "Big Pimpin'," Jay stopped the band, saying that the song couldn't just be performed any old way.
"I've been working hard all night," he said. "You all need to participate a little." He then commanded the audience to swing T-shirts, hoodies or whatever they had in the air.
Jay-Z with the night ended taking off his sunglasses and personally thanking conference members for their energy throughout the night. Over a slow, jazzy version of "Encore" by his band, individual people he thanked, describing conference members who had been dancing and "holding him down" throughout the performance. The rapper even gave away his black Yankees cap and let one girl in the audience come on stage and sing a few lines for the arena.
"I thought it was an awesome show," said Christopher Alphen (junior-sociology). "It's great that a big name like Jay-Z could come here."
Before Jay-Z's set, N.E.R.D. came onstage and played a handful of its blended rap, funk and rock hits. The group's backing band at one point began playing The White Stripe's "Seven Nation Army," cueing the audience to hum along as if the Blue Band were onstage.
Nicole Simpson, a native of Bronx, N.Y., who traveled out with her friends to look the concert, thought N.E.R.D.'s song selection could have been improved upon.
She said, "I thought the openers could have been a little better, but when Jay-Z came on, we forgot about all that"

J. Cole and Wale had brief sets as well, though the crowd was still filing in during these performances and venue lights were still on.
Wale's backing band performed a few covers, ripping through versions of Justice's "D.A.N.C.E." and Nirvana's "Smells like Teen Spirit."
Wale showed some love for his surroundings, changing the lyrics of his signature song from "D.C. Chillin' " to "Penn State Chillin.' "
"Wale was obviously my favorite," Alphen said. "He showed some passion and really got the show started -- by the time Jay-Z came out, everyone was riled up."

Introduction To Jay Z

Shawn Corey Carter was born in December 4, 1969 in Brooklyn, New York. He is an American rapper and former president and CEO of Roc A Fella Records. He is more generally recognized by a variety of stage names including S. Carter, Jigga, Hova, Hov, and Young Hov. He is viewed as one of the most prolific and successful American blend artists of the mid-90s and early 2000s and is known for his use of images, free styling abilities, word play, flow, and blending of street and popular hip hop. He is one of the most appreciated rappers in the music industry, and is well-liked for his aptitude to craft songs from memory without the use of pen and paper. He married his long time girlfriend Beyonce in April 2008 after dating for over seven years. He is one of the founders of Roc-A-Fella Records, a hip-hop record label which also released the careers of artists such as Beanie Sigel, Kanye West, Memphis Bleek, Young Gunz, Freeway, and Teairra Mari. As of 2008, he is approximated to be worth around $3.