Tag: Jay-Z
A New Jersey-based rapper named Wais P the Pimp was charged with promoting prostitution on Thursday, according to the Daily News. Not since C-Murder went to prison for murder has a rapper been arrested for something so on-the-nose. Wais P the Pimp appeared on a 1998 Jay-Z song called “If I Should Die.” He doesn’t […]
Hip-hop moguls came together on Wednesday to talk to Governor Andrew Cuomo about reforms needed in the wake of the death of Eric Garner at the hands of the NYPD. Jay Z and Russell Simmons came together at Cuomo’s Manhattan office to talk about the specific changes that should be made to restore public confidence […]
On Monday night, the Barclays Center in Brooklyn might as well been the center of the universe. There were protesters, NBA players, rap royalty, a real life prince, a duchess, and a whole lot of media. As the masses gathered outside to protest a Staten Island jury’s decision to not indict NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo […]
The arsty-analytical online project Staplecrops has created an abstract visualization of every geographical location mentioned in the lyrics of artists like Jay-Z and Kanye West. Converting the place names — like “Brooklyn” or “Paris” — into geo-coordinates, they then used a robotic arm holding a light pen to trace them from point to point, creating a lingering […]
“I used to cop in Harlem, all of my Dominicanos/Right there up on Broadway, pull me back to that McDonald’s/Took it to my stash spot, 560 State Street/Catch me in the kitchen like a Simmons with them pastries” The “stash spot” Jay Z immortalized in his still-inescapable 2009 hit “Empire State of Mind” is now […]
Here’s a single-serving Tumblr that re-imagines the Carters and their various friends as personages in famous paintings by Leonardo da Vinci, Rembrandt and etc — The Carter Family Portrait Gallery! Vivid snapshots of the life and times of The Carters – Jay Z, Beyoncé, and little Blue Ivy – as captured by their official portrait […]
Here’s the visual aftermath of the art and rap world colliding when Jay Z recited “Picasso Baby” for hours on end during an invite-only performance at Pace Gallery a few weeks ago. In the video’s intro, Jay Z says this of the relationship he shares with the likes of Marina Abramović and Lawrence Weiner: “We’re […]
News Vines is ANIMAL’s reoccurring series in which we retell current events in six-seconds or less. Jay Z would like you to stop using a hyphen when writing his name, please. […]
The internet’s got Jay-Z on the mind lately, so here’s a little more to get you through the weekend: illustrations for each of Jigga’s 99 problems, brought to you by artist Ali Graham, who posts a new problem to Tumblr every day. See a few of our favorites in the gallery. […]
“There is ABSOLUTELY NO WAY you’re getting in,” Pace rep told my editor. She’s been getting calls about Jay-Z all day. “It’s a closed set.” Jay-Z was shooting a Mark Romanek-directed music video inside a gallery in Chelsea, lip-syncing and dancing with half the New York art world as cameos. When Tweets alleging “Jay-Z is doing performance […]
