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Birth Name: Shawn Corey Carter
Birth Place: Brooklyn, NY
Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 12/04/1969, Sagittarius
Profession: Rapper; music producer; actor; entrepreneur

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Beyonce "Always Knew" She'd Marry Jay-Z | Today's News: Our Take | 10/9/2008 New
Notoriously quiet about her relationship, Beyonce is finally breaking her silence on her low-key wedding (and quite possibly the world's worst kept secret) to Jay-Z — six months later. "We've been together a long time," she told Essence magazine. "We always knew it would happen." Together since 2002, the two tied the knot on April 4 in an intimate ceremony because ... read more be the first to leave a comment
Jay-Z and Beyonce Quite Possibly Got Married | Today's News: Our Take | 4/5/2008
The where: $150-million man Jay-Z's Tribeca apartment.The when: Friday night.The who: Jay-Z and longtime honey Beyoncé, in the company of two dozen friends and family members including several Knowleses, Destiny's Children Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams, and Gwyneth Paltrow (to name-check but a few).The what: White checked linens, silver candelabras, a white tent and tens of thousands of white orchid blooms.The why: To become man and wife, silly. Or at least apparently. Though reps for the couple steadfastly (annoyingly?) refuse to confirm the nuptials, "all signs point to a wedding" (as UsMagazine.com's headline so aptly puts it). Some glossy out there must've ponied up mad amounts of "hush money" to keep folks' yaps shut until the next newsstand cycle.The what next: You click on over to our special "Crazy in Love" photo gallery (chronicling the couple's years together) and/or use our Online Video Guide to cue up many of their respective music vids.The big questions:... read more be the first to leave a comment
Jay-Z Jilts Def Jam in New $150 Mil Deal; Next Up: Wedding Beyonce Tonight? | Today's News: Our Take | 4/4/2008
Talk about your Best Week Ever. As buzz builds that Jay-Z and Beyoncé might trade vows as early as Friday evening, the biz's biggest name in hip-hop has inked a mammoth $150 deal with, no, not longtime home Def Jam, nor a rival label, but concert promoter Live Nation (which threw similar big bucks at Madonna a short while back). The pact demonstrates "how significantly the music industry has shifted," Blender editor-in-chief Joe Levy tells the New York Daily News. "The greatest rapper in the world doesn't want a record label anymore."The terms of the deal are said to award 38-year-old Jay-Z (aka Shawn Carter) $25 mil upfront, another $25 mil in advances, and then $10 mil each for at least three albums. He also gets $50 mil in seed money for his entertainment company.As for his romantic success, the News hears that friends of Jay-Z and Beyoncé have been invited to the rapper's Manhattan digs tonight, though officially the duo's reps have held firm with a "no comment" on... read more be the first to leave a comment
Jay-Z Gives Up Presidency; R. Kelly Fan in a Pic-kle | Today's News: Our Take | 12/26/2007
Rap bigwig Jay-Z is giving up his post as president of Def Jam Records, officially to expand his nightclub empire but presumably to spend more time deflecting questions about whether he's secretly married to Beyoncé.... An R. Kelly fan has been sentenced to five days in the clink for taking cell-phone pics of the hip-hop bad boy while he was in court on kiddie porn charges. — Ben Katner read more be the first to leave a comment
Who Did Babs Find Most Fascinating This Year? | Today's News: Our Take | 11/28/2006
And by fascinating, feel free to define that as "overexposed" or, if so inclined, "civil war." ABC has announced a Dec. 12 airdate — anything to screw with Boston Legal some more, right? — for Barbara Walters Presents: The 10 Most Fascinating People of 2006. Among those making the cut this time around are Anna Wintour, hip-hopper Jay-Z, John Ramsey, Andre Agassi, televangelist Joel Osteen (who I have to agree is compelling, at least at 7 am on Sunday while chugging on the elliptical trainer), Terri Irwin and Patrick Dempsey. And again, a man named Federline is slighted. It's simply not his month. read more be the first to leave a comment

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grammy nominees, jay z courtesy Kevin Mazur/WireImage.com

beyonce knowles, Jay-Z courtesy Kevin Mazur/WireImage.com

nia long, Mariah Carey, Jay Z courtesy Kevin Mazur/WireImage.com

brandy, jay-z courtesy Kevin Mazur/WireImage.com

snoop dogg, jay-z and young jeezy courtesy Theo Wargo/WireImage.com

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Title	Year	Type
2007 MTV Movie Awards (Performer)	2007	TV Show Series
American Music Awards (Performer)	2006	TV Show Series
Fashion Rocks (Performer)	2006	TV Show Series
BET Relief Telethon (Performer)	2005	TV Show Series
Death Of A Dynasty (Actor - Himself)	2005	Movie

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