Jay-Z, Kanye West
Jay-Z doesn't think Kanye West is a "jackass" — just "super-passionate."
The rapper defended his protégé on BBC Radio for ambushing Taylor Swift at Sunday's Video Music Awards and says the whole situation has been blown out of proportion.
Top Moments: Kanye interrupts, Serena curses and True Blood licks the egg
"Of course it was rude, because it was her moment, but that's the way he really felt," Jay-Z said. "I think it was rude, but the way they're treating ...
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Jay-Z, Rihanna, Kanye
Rihanna will make her first major public performance since the Chris Brown assault six months ago by teaming up with not one, but two Jays.
The 21-year-old singer will join ...
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Jay-Z, Kelly Clarkson
Jay-Z says his recent concert with Kelly Clarkson could have been "the oddest pairing ever," but turned out to be a demonstration of racial accord.
"On the show as well were Third Eye Blind and Kelly Clarkson," Jay-Z wrote on RapRadar about his Wednesday concert at the University of Arizona. "I thought that to be ...
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Jennifer Aniston
Who needs a man when you've got cash?
Newly single Jennifer Aniston pocketed a cool $27 million in 2008, according to Parade's annual "What People Earn" issue. Aniston bagged the same amount in 2007.
The actress is no match for Jay-Z and Beyonce: The power couple combined for a household income of ...
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DJ AM and Jay-Z
DJ AM is getting back to work — less than a month after surviving a fatal plane crash.
AM (real name: Adam Goldstein) shared with People that he will make his return behind the turntable on Jay-Z's tour.
"He's the greatest ...
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Beyonce
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 ...
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Beyonce and Jay-Z by Kevin Mazur/WireImage.com
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: Will...
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Jay-Z by James Devaney/WireImage.com
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 thi...
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Jay-Z by Alexandra Wyman/WireImage.com
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
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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.
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