Tag Archives: Jay-Z

TMZ reports: Beyonce, Jay-Z and their kid, Blue Ivy, chose not to stand up for the National Anthem at Super Bowl LIV – even with Jay being a big partner of the league now. The Carters were sitting together a few rows back from the field, and they clearly didn’t make an effort to get up during Demi Lovato’s performance. …

Forbes reports: Jay-Z has accumulated a fortune that conservatively totals $1 billion, making him one of only a handful of entertainers to become a billionaire—and the first hip-hop artist to do so. Jay-Z’s steadily growing kingdom is expansive, encompassing liquor, art, real estate (homes in Los Angeles, the Hamptons, Tribeca) and stakes in companies like Uber. To calculate his net …

USA Today reports: Beyonce got emotional Thursday night as she and husband Jay Z were honored for being allies to the LGBTQ community. “We’re here to promote love for every human being,” said Beyonce, taking the stage at the GLAAD Media Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel with Jay Z. Presented with GLAAD’s Vanguard Award, Beyonce paid tribute to her …

The New York Daily News reports: President Trump took a swipe at Jay-Z after the rap icon referred to the commander-in-chief as a racist “superbug.” The rapper blasted Trump a day earlier for allegedly referring to Haiti and some African nations as “shithole countries” during a meeting on immigration. “Everyone feels anger, but after the anger it’s really hurtful because …

Kyle Mantyla reports at Right Wing Watch: Over the course of the last year, Liberty Counsel’s Mat Staver has repeatedly attacked us here at Right Wing Watch for supposedly being one of “the biggest purveyors of fake news in the country,” simply because we post about the outrageous things he says and provide audio or video of him saying them. …

NPR reports: Hailed as music’s biggest night, the 60th Annual Grammy Awards will return to New York City, taking place at Madison Square Garden Jan. 28. Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee’s crossover smash “Despacito” was well-received by the Academy; after taking home four awards at the 18th Annual Latin Grammys held earlier this month, the track has been nominated in …

The HuffPost reports: Gloria Carter, Jay-Z’s mother, came out as lesbian in a new track featured on the rapper’s just-released “4:44” album. The song, “Smile,” features both Jay-Z and his mother discussing her sexuality. It is the first time that either of them has publicly addressed her sexual identity. “Mama had four kids, but she’s a lesbian / Had to …

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Via Mashable: Trying ever so hard to put the Met Gala elevator fight behind them, power couple Beyonce and Jay Z delivered a dramatic star-studded mini movie to fans this weekend to shift the conversation to their upcoming On the Run Tour. The all-guns-blazing video, simply titled “Run” and set to the duo’s song “Part II (On the Run),” throws …

Last night Debbie Harry held up the above sign at the end of a Daily Show “celebrity elevator violence” PSA.  Watch the clip here.

CNN reports: Beyoncé has delivered the ultimate holiday surprise. Just after midnight on the east coast, the singer suddenly dropped a brand new 14-track self-titled album on iTunes. That’s right — without any pre-promotion. As if this bombshell — which, in her Instagram announcement, she described as a “visual album” — needed anything else, each song also comes with a …

Jay-Z and Beyonce took a trip to Cuba to celebrate their fifth anniversary earlier this year, prompting nasty criticism from the wingnuts, who really hate the pop superstars for backing Obama. This week the GOP took its revenge. Americans can travel to Cuba only with the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s okay, and trips are generally limited to academic, cultural, …

Last week it was announced that Samsung had purchased one million digital copies of Jay-Z’s coming album, which will be given away free when they launch a new cell phone app. Jay-Z then tweeted his millions of followers with a demand that the RIAA grant him a platinum album even though technically no one has bought it. Yesterday the RIAA …