Jay-Z News

But at the Grammy Awards, which air tonight, rap has had a long-lasting losing streak in the top categories.

He slowly rose from beneath the stage amid billowing red smoke, then glided toward the audience aboard a conveyor belt.

Embodying the rags-to-riches rap dream, Jay-Z pulled himself up by his bootstraps as a youth to eventually become the reigning rapper of New York City and, in turn, a major-label executive following his short-lived retirement from music-making. In the wake of his 1996 debut, Reasonable Doubt, Jay-Z'... MORE

The White House just released a list of 29 songs that will be heard at President Barack Obama 's campaign stops and events between now and November 6.A The list runs the gamut from R&B slow jams that includeA Al Green 's "Let's Stay Together" - which he just serenaded the country with last month at a fund-raising event at New York's famed Apollo ... (more)

Jay-Z and Beyonce have gone a different route and instead of selling photos of Blue Ivy Carter to the highest bidder, they have released intimate photos of themselves and B.I.C. on a tumblr page.A The baby is absolutely adorable and Jay-Z and Beyonce are beaming with happiness in the pictures, which seem to have been taken at the hospital shortly ... (more)

To those in the rap game, State College is a fractured scene. In true musical Adam Smith philosophy, the hip-hop culture has been suppressed by self-interest and hit-it-big egos of local rappers.

One of the first photos of Blue Ivy Carter, Jay-Z and Beyonce's daughter, posted on helloblueivycarter.tumblr.com. Beyonce and Jay-Z unveiled adorable pics of their bouncing bundle of joy on Friday via the newborn's very own Tumblr website.

Here she is! The world got a first look at Beyonce's baby, Blue Ivy, tonight after the star singer posted photos of the adorable infant online.

Rap mogul and unofficial Brooklyn spokesperson Jay-Z is working alongside SHoP architects on a group of 11 luxury suites - The Vault at Barclays Center, if you will - for the New Jersey Nets' new home arena.

Beyonce has already stepped out not once but twice support of Jay-Z as he held two shows at Carnegie Hall this week in New York City, and now her fans are wondering when and where the next great B sighting might be.

Most Chicagoans know the ties to the city for Grammy nominees Kanye West and R. Kelly, but there are others up for the coveted award.

For their second single off Watch The Throne , Jay-Z and Kanye have created a video so sensational, it comes with a warning that it may cause seizures.

Reviewing the entire year in hip-hop is a task more appropriately tackled by a playlist than a newspaper article.

MONEY IS sure a thang at Brooklyn's new Nets arena, where luxury suites with design touches by Jay-Z are going for more than a cool half-million bucks a year.

'For me, it's Kanye and Jay-Z,' the filmmaker tells MTV News of his picks for MTV's 'Hottest MCs in the Game.' Filmmaker Spike Lee is on fire.

It's about time Jay-Z and Kanye West got around to releasing the video for "..... Paris.' The song reached number 1 on the Urban charts a while ago, but the video proves that it was worth the wait.

Rapper Shawn Carter, better known as Jay-Z, performs on stage at Carnegie Hall in New York on Monday, Feb.

Blue Ivy Carter could spawn a naming phenomenon -- but that's not the only thing the famous baby has inspired...The federal government is moving swiftly to trademark the tot's moniker.

Once dubbed "the Jay-Z of the South" by Pharrell Williams, T.I. gradually came into his own and established himself as one of rap's most successful MCs during the early 2000s.

A 2/8/12 article in the Wall Street Journal, Jay-Z Determined to Make the Nets Stylish: As the Team Moves to Brooklyn, the Rap Mogul and Part-Owner Is the Czar of Aesthetics; Don't Skimp on the Forks , is essentially a commercial--sans any contribution from the man of honor--about how Hova steers Barclays/Nets styles: In addition, the Nets are set ... (more)