Rocawear may be dying. The clothing company founded by rapper Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter and Damon Dash in 1999 — and sold to Iconix for a whopping $200-plus million in 2007, has just laid off 28 of its 56 staffers. According to the New York Post: RELATED: Rocawear On Verge Of Bankruptcy? SEE ALSO: N.Y. Designer […]

After Renee Gardner posted a poem on the site RollingOut, which was supposed to be from Jay-Z, in which he claimed he would not use the b-word in his lyrics after the birth of his daughter, Blue Ivy, reports spread across the Internet that Jay-Z had dropped the b-word from his vocabulary. Here are the […]

After recent reports surfaced that a new strain of marijuana has been named for Jay-Z and Beyonce‘s daughter Blue Ivy, there’s another blatant attempt to capitalize on the name of the famous couple’s baby. RELATED: “Blue Ivy” Weed Named After Beyonce And Jay-Z’s Baby New York designer Joseph Mbeh is attempting to trademark “Blue Ivy Carter NYC” […]

The bizarreness surrounding Beyonce Knowles and Jay-Z‘s newborn daughter, Blue Ivy, has officially reached an all time high — pun intended. TMZ reports that multiple marijuana dispensaries in Hollywood are making a quick buck off of the new celebrity “it” baby by selling a new strain of the drug called “OG Blue Ivy.” SEE ALSO: Beyonce […]

Congratulations to the Carters for the recent addition to their group.  Beyonce and Jay-Z are great performers as a duo, so I have no doubt that the trio will be just as stunning. Still, here are five things that annoy me about the Beyonce and Jay-Z baby drama: SEE ALSO: Haiti’s Uncertain Future, 2 Years […]

NEW YORK — State health officials on Wednesday dismissed complaints that patients in a hospital neonatal unit were mistreated while Beyonce was there giving birth to her and Jay-Z’s daughter. SEE ALSO: TV’s Worst New Show They had received two complaints about Manhattan’s Lenox Hill Hospital, one made anonymously, the other from someone who had […]

Beyonce and Jay-Z’s newborn, Blue Ivy, isn’t even a week old, but she’s already raising hell, TMZ reports. SEE ALSO: Gingrich, Santorum Vow To Fight On Is GOP Race Over? Someone vandalized a North Carolina church sign yesterday with writing that read, “Beyonce had her baby. Satan is on Earth.” Beyonce‘s new baby Blue Ivy […]

There is an incredible buzz around the birth Jay Z and Beyonce’s baby that I don’t think I have ever seen before. People keep asking: What does Blue Ivy mean? What kind of father will Jay Z be? Will Beyonce be able to stop dancing and acting long enough to be a good mother? How […]

UPDATE: SEE LABOR DETAILS HERE. E! Online is reporting that Jay Z and Beyonce had their baby. She scheduled a C-Section and rented out the 4th floor of the hospital for 1.3 million dollars. The name…? Blue Ivy Carter! (At least that’s what Jay-Z is telling pals at this point—the couple’s reps have not immediately […]

The recent media attention focused on Professor Michael Eric Dyson’s course on rapper Jay-Z, which he teaches at Georgetown University, has been both gift and curse. On the one hand, the media spotlight from The Today Show to the Washington Post provides those of us scholars who teach hip-hop a continuing platform for public engagement. […]

NEW YORK — Jay-Z didn’t graduate from high school, but he’s encouraging others to value their education. SEE ALSO: Biggest Villains of 2011 Biggest Christmas Toy Fads

Power couple Jay-Z and Beyonce Knowles checked out Ricky Martin’s multi-million dollar home during a day of house hunting in Miami last week.