Jay-Z News

All content within this section is pure rumor and generally have no factual info outside of what the streets have whispered in our ear.

When it comes to touring, most hip-hop acts are pretty spare. Let's do the list: there are the featured emcees, a DJ , and a couple of hype men who probably echo a few phrases and help make the stage look not-so-empty. But, this isn't the case with The Roots.

For a song that's all about killing certain trends and jumpstarting other, more presumably acceptable trends , what are we to make of Jay-Z's current haircut in the video for "D.O.A." ? What to even call it? Is there a word for shaggy and unkempt yet somehow uniform in length, even on the sides? Given that Kanye, the most unshameable star in rap, ...

Electro Singing Rebellions Edit Jay-Z Releases 'Death of Autotune' Jay-Z Releases 'Death of Autotune' 93 Views - Click for Larger Image Jay-Z debuted his new controversial song at the BET Awards on Sunday night.

It was less than three weeks after the September 11 attacks that the Onion newspaper shattered the comic silence that always follows tragedy.

Daniel Merriweather was in shock when he met Jay-Z. The "Change" singer is now a friend of the "99 Problems" rapper but admits he was lost for words when the pair were first introduced.

It's unlikely that those attending a pair of Valley concerts in the next nine days will enjoy the spectacle that a New York crowd recently was treated to: superstar rapper Jay-Z's surprise appearance onstage with his Grammy-winning wife, Beyonce Knowles.

Controversy seems to naturally swirl around Nasir Jones. Al Sharpton and the NAACP have condemned his albums.

After hearing the news of Michael Jackson's death, locals in the music scene tuned into YouTube videos and turned up their MP3 players to hear the familiar tunes by the King of Pop.

The rap star known as Tru-Life has been charged with murder in the fatal stabbing last week of a man in an apartment lobby near Bellevue Hospital Center, the police said on Thursday.

Last year's festival saw rap star Jay-Z and the Kings of Leon silence line-up critics so will the elder statesmen of american music, Bruce Springsteen and Neil Young, do the same? At this point last year, the Glastonbury Festival looked like if it could be in financial trouble.

A year ago, rap star Jay-Z and US band Kings of Leon blew away critics at the Glastonbury Festival.

As the world waits for the third "Blueprint" album, Jay-Z keeps leaking new tracks that may or may not end up on the full-length debut of his new Roc Nation imprint.

Chicago rapper Twista made his recording debut on "Po Pimp," a platinum single by his fellow Windy City rappers Do or Die.

Thank you for releasing your new single, "Death of Autotune." For the last few years, rap music has sounded more like that awful Cher song "Believe" than the music that once made my mom so pissed she tossed my Amerikkka's Most Wanted record onto the front lawn in the rain.

All content within this section is pure rumor and generally have no factual info outside of what the streets have whispered in our ear.

We can thank Wendy's "Frosty Posse" for Jay-Z's "D.O.A." song. Well, maybe they're not 100 percent responsible, but the Jiggaman said that hearing the use of Auto-Tune in a commercial for the fast-food chain is one of the things that inspired him to bring forth the song.

But we certainly didn't think it would make a bunch of famous rappers start shit with him or anything.

Jay-Z spoke to Chicago radio station WGCI on a number of issues, both personal and professional.

Jay-Z has partially blamed Wendy's for pronouncing the "Death of Autotune" on his new single.