Jay Z: "Do you have the power to get out from up under you"

A few days ago: Jay-Z Talks about his book ‘Decoded’ & President Obama



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RocNation: Jay Elect signs with Jay Z

Rap signings are almost as big as whose gonna play for what team in the NBA, and one of the people who was most anticipated to make his official announcement was Jay Electronica whose alliance with Diddy in the last year fueled speculation that he'd be signing with the Bad Boy Mogul.



Instead Jay Electronica sides with Jay Z's Roc Nation; who made him an 'offer he couldn't refuse". The people at Roc Nation are gearing up for what's going to be a very jam packed 2011 year, with label-mates like Willow Smith, Rapper Wale, projects like Kanye at the helm of producing Jay Z's next album, the debut of J Cole's upcoming album, and now Jay Electronica (who might finally release his song Act II) to name a few.

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Bing, the decision engine from Microsoft, launches an interactive game for Jay Z

Via: Bing.decodejay-z.com



In his first book, DECODED, pop culture icon JAY-Z describes the hidden meanings behind some of his most provocative songs and provides a highly personal narrative of the culture that so powerfully shaped his life and art. But some stories are bigger than the printed page. Bing, the decision engine from Microsoft, is launching a multi-platform search experience and interactive game to help people decode JAY-Z’s life and lyrics. JAY-Z’s words will be taken a step further, allowing fans to use Bing and decide how to find the very locations that inspired them.

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Jay-Z unveils his latest “Blueprint” for Success

Via: uk.reuters.com



JAY-Z on Death of Autotune:

" I'm a multi-millionaire,
so why is it - I'm still the hardest n*gga here? "

This is an excellent article on Jay-Z Inc.

NEW YORK (Billboard) - At just about any given moment of any given day -- including this sunlit June Friday afternoon -- Jay-Z is a busy man. Sitting on a swivel chair at his Roc the Mic studios in downtown Manhattan with a glass of Santa Margherita white wine in hand, he tackles interview after interview with Japanese reporters, pausing only to use the restroom or ask his assistant to get him a refill or an order of food from his sports club, 40/40.

But while he handles his international duties, his Roc Nation team -- seven people, including his assistant, longtime publicist and engineers -- make sure his empire runs smoothly. His employees are scattered around the room, some perched on stools or couches, others standing or sitting on the floor, some with laptops before them. His assistant is booking flights, hotels and car service for the BET Awards, which is taking place that weekend; his publicist whispers on the phone about another magazine story.

Jay-Z, born Shawn Carter and raised in Brooklyn's Marcy Projects, is the first to admit he could not have achieved half of his successes on his own. But it's his overarching big-business vision and talent that have positioned him as one of the most well-known and influential artists of his time.

"I still owed an album to Def Jam, but I wanted to have it back for a number of reasons, the most important being that it wasn't consistent with the type of business I planned for me or where I was positioning myself. Everything in my life I had taken charge of, but yet I was still an artist signed to a label. It seemed a little archaic in my plans," he says. "I've always prided myself on being a principled person. It was more so the principle than the amount of money. It was about owning my own masters and owning my own companies, but you have to pay for the privilege, and that comes at a premium." Continue Reading: Click Here