Oh it’s on, yo! Legendary rapper and sports representation neophyte Jay-Z calls out super-star agent Scott Boras on his new album.
Publisher Ali Akbar is a lover of good (and weird) music. Here’s his review of the soundtrack of The Great Gatsby (2013).
Hey remember when the Knicks thought it’d be an awesome idea to wear all black to game 5 against Boston, symbolically declaring the Celtics‘ funeral had arrived? Hey remember how premature that turned out to be and how foolish the Knicks looked in light of it? Yeah, we remember it too. But somebody forgot to get J.R. Smith cc’d on the memo to stop treating the NBA Playoffs like a […]
If you remember, last week Jay-Z and Beyonce took a trip to Cuba for their 5th wedding anniversary. Today Jay-Z released a song, titled “Open Letter,” which refers to that trip and how the “Boy from the hood… got White House clearance.” A few other key lyrics include lines, “I turned Havana into Atlanta… Boy from the hood/ I got White House clearance… Obama said, ‘Chill you gonna get me […]
In order for Jay-Z’s Roc Nation to become a full-fledged sports agency representing NBA clients, he will have to sell his stake in the Brooklyn Nets. Nets interim coach P.J. Carlesimo would be disappointed if Jay-Z left. “He had an enormous amount to do with the rebranding of the team. I wasn’t close to it at all, but from what I’ve seen, it would be hard to overstate his importance […]
Beyonce and Jay-Z were photographed in Cuba today, where they traveled for their 5th wedding anniversary. TMZ wrote that the “trip to Cuba that raises some questions, like … is this strictly for pleasure, or maybe a little business too? … Technically, US citizens are not supposed to travel to the communist nation from the states if it’s purely for tourism … though there are ways to skirt the travel ban.” Florida […]
The soundtrack list for The Great Gatsby, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Carey Mulligan, and Joel Edgerton, was released today. And, ladies and gents, when you’ve got Jay-Z as the producer of a soundtrack, you know that it’s bound to be fantastic. Jay-Z and Gatsby director, Baz Luhrmann, have been working on the project for two years, ‘translating the Jazz Age sensibility of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel into the […]
Beyoncé and 14-month-old Blue Ivy were spotted in Brooklyn over the weekend. This time without any blankets covering her up, we finally got a good look at that adorable little face! Two sneaky fans even got a picture of the mommy-daughter duo at Buttermilk Channel, one of the Carter family’s favorite brunch places. Beyoncé said last month during the Super Bowl Live show, “[Blue Ivy]‘s starting to talk. […]
