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JAY-Z & Jack Dorsey Team Up To Bring ‘Bitcoin Academy’ To Marcy Projects Residents
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Ezra Shaw / Getty JAY-Z and former Twitter founder Jack Dorsey are teaming up to teach financial literacy, but they face some criticism. JAY-Z and Dorsey have teamed up for The Bitcoin Academy Teaching financial literacy in underserved communities should always be a good thing, especially about cryptocurrency. JAY-Z and Dorsey have teamed up for The Bitcoin Academy, a bitcoin-focused financial literacy program that HOV and Dorsey want to bring to the residents of the rapper’s old stomping grounds, Marcy Projects. JAY-Z and Jack Dorsey are no strangers when working with each other. Dorsey’s digital-payments company Block (née Square) purchased a majority stake in Jigga’s streaming service Tidal in 2021. The two partnered up by combining their bitcoin holdi...
Watch: Fat Joe Admits He Played Himself By Beefing With Jay-Z
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: @MATHHOFFA / Youtube Fat Joe is now a much wiser Fat Joe. The Don has admitted he was wrong by beefing with Jay-Z and the Roc-A-Fella Records crew. As per Hype Beast you can always count on the South Bronx native for a great interview. In his latest Q&A he sat down with Math Hoffa and crew on the My Expert Opinion podcast. They got him to discuss a variety of topics including his historic beef with Jay-Z. With no hesitation the “John Blaze” MC admitted his culpability in the situation and made it clear it is one of his biggest regrets. “One of the greatest friendships, admiration and love, I played myself. With everything that happened with us and Roc-A-Fella and all that was Fat Joe’s doing, and I played myself, and I was wrong,” he reveale...
Pusha T Declares Jay-Z The Best Rapper
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Johnny Nunez / Getty Pusha T is still basking in the glow of the release of his latest full-length release, It’s Almost Dry, and the media rounds are being made by the talented lyricist. King Push recently shared during an interview that Brooklyn bomber Jay-Z is the best rapper in his estimation. Sitting down with SiriusXM radio host Swaggy Sie, the Virginia rapper gave a strong opinion regarding the legacy of Hov in his view, this after Pusha T just worked with Jay-Z on the “Neck & Wrist” track. “Hov to me, he’s like the best rapper, like just period,” Pusha T said during the chat. “When I reach out to him about a record, I feel like he sort of knows that I’m not reaching out to him about no bullshit. I must really think that this is a joint or somet...
Run This Town: Jay-Z’s Made In America 2022 Dates Announced
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Mark Makela / Getty Made In America is back for 2022, with new dates for the late summer festival created by Jay-Z having been recently announced. The Made In America Festival is back again for its tenth year, with dates for the 2022 edition being announced on Tuesday (April 26th). The two-day concert event created by Jay-Z and Budweiser will return to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Labor Day Weekend, September 3rd and September 4th. The festival will be held once more at Benjamin Franklin Parkway, the cultural thoroughfare that runs through the heart of the city and ends at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. “From the inaugural festival in 2012 to now, Made In America has had a home on Benjamin Franklin Parkway. We have seen some of music’s most iconic...
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Jay-Z’s Famous 2001 Summer Jam Performance With Michael Jackson Finally Unearthed [Video]
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Ron Galella / Getty It’s been two decades since Jay-Z made Hip-Hop history by bringing out the King of Pop, Michael Jackson, out to that Summer Jam stage in 2001. Although it happened at a time when camera phones weren’t even a possibility, someone actually recorded Jay’s whole set that night and yesterday (April 12) HipHopVCR uploaded it to YouTube for the world to enjoy. Taking the stage in an oversized Knicks jersey and baggy jean shorts, Jigga had the concertgoers in the palm of his hands and after dropping some of his popular radio cuts, he debuted his classic “The Takeover” much to the shock of the crowd who knew exactly who he was talking about when he was dropping his bars. Then came the infamous moment when Jay put Prodigy (R.I.P) on blast and th...
Pusha T & Jay-Z Trade Bars On “Neck & Wrist” Track, Twitter Salutes The Penmanship
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Johnny Nunez / Getty The Internet streets were abuzz with rumors that a certain Brooklyn rapper would connect once again with the crowned king of “Coke Rap” in Pusha T. The track “Neck & Wrist” has materialized and the feature from Jay-Z certainly had the fans and even some record executives discussing the bars. It’s been a few hours so the dust seems to be settling but Pusha T, who has been on a quick mini-run thus far in 2022, delivered quite a treat in securing the Jay-Z feature for “Neck & Wrist,” produced by the deft hands of Pharrell Williams. King Push employs a unique vocal style that emphasized the last line of the bars to great effect, but Hov came through and really crushed the buildings, respectfully. Jay-Z took time out of runni...
Former Chateau Marmont Employees Plan Picket Line During JAY-Z’s Oscar Bash This Weekend
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Axelle/Bauer-Griffin / Getty JAY-Z’s upcoming Oscars soiree will have to compete with the sound with protest chants. Per Page Six, guests attending JAY-Z’s big Oscars bash will be met by former employees of the Chateau Marmont on a picket line protesting the establishment. The iconic Los Angeles hotel has been the subject of boycotts after the hotel’s 250 employees were let go at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic without any insurance or severance pay. That’s not all. There were also allegations of racial discrimination and harassment, claims the hotel denies happened. Regardless, Jigga is not letting that stop him or his wife, Beyoncé. She will be in attendance because she is a confirmed performer at the award’s show from partying the night away and po...
Jay-Z Oscar Party Draws Criticism for Ignoring Chateau Marmont Boycott
Pre-pandemic, Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s Oscars afterparty in the Chateau Marmont’s parking garage had become the most coveted invite of the big night. Revelers at the 2020 event, known as the Gold Party, which features a no-phones policy, included Rihanna, Reese Witherspoon, Kanye West, Kim Kardashian, Travis Scott, Gabrielle Union and Charlize Theron. Explore Explore Jay-Z See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Now, after a two-year absence, Jay-Z is set to throw the Oscar-night event in a lounge space on the Sunset Strip hotel’s storied property that was once home to Bar Marmont. The hitch: There is an ongoing boycott of the property, led by the local hotel workers’ union, over the Chateau Marmont’s alleged treatment of employees. The campaign — which h...
Snoop Dogg Says JAY-Z Threatened To End NFL Partnership If Super Bowl Halftime Show Didn’t Happen
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Vivien Killilea / Getty According to Snoop Dogg, JAY-Z tested Roger Goodell’s gangster to make sure Super Bowl LVI’s Hip-Hop inspired Pepsi Halftime show did happen. Speaking with Tidal’s Elliott Wilson, the new owner of Death Row Records, revealed that God MC threatened to end the partnership between Roc Nation and NFL if Dr. Dre, Snoop, Kendrick Lamar, Eminem, and Mary J. Blige did not perform. During their conversation, Snoop Dogg shared JAY-Z was the first one to greet them in the dressing room, sharing a moment with them as if they had taken home the chip. So then [JAY-Z] came down, and soon as he came in, he hugged me. We hug each other tight. It was as if we won a championship. Like, you know when you’re genuinely happy for each other? People don’t...
Jay-Z & Ye FKA Kanye West Named Highest Paid Hip-Hop Artists Of 2021
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Patrick McMullan / Getty Among the wide range of Hip-Hop superstars both past and present, few command the attention garnered by Jay-Z and Ye, also known widely as Kanye West. A new report highlights the fact that the Watch The Throne collaborators were the highest paid Hip-Hop artists last year, joining a list of other familiar names. Former Forbes editor Zack O’Malley, best known for the “Hip Hop Cash Kings” tally at the finance outlet, now works on his own substack newsletter, Zogblog. VIBE published a report regarding O’Malley’s findings, which zeroes in on a total sum of the earnings hauled in by these recording artists, including their brand partnerships and other related business holdings. The top 10 highest paid Hip-Hop artists of 2021 are listed ...
JAY-Z Owed $4.5 Million in Royalties From Parlux Fragrances, Court Order
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Neil Mockford / Getty It seems that JAY-Z’s dealings with his former cosmetics partner are not quite over. A court has ruled that Parlux Fragrances owes him over four million dollars in royalties. As per Complex the legendary rapper has a big bag coming to him. Page Six reports that that on Thursday, February 24 an appellate court ruled in his favor charging his former fragrance manufacturer for withholding payments concerning Jigga’s “Gold Jay-Z” cologne. The “Song Cry” rapper partnered with Parlux Fragrances back in 2013 but things went left when the brand claims that he did not live up to the end of bargain with in regards to promoting the product. The perfumes company filed a lawsuit in 2016 but the case didn’t go to trial until 2021 wh...
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Pusha T Confirms JAY-Z Feature On Forthcoming Album, “He Got Busy” [Video]
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Bernard Smalls / @PhotosByBeanz Pusha T has already started making his rounds for his forthcoming album. In a recent interview he confirms he has a feature from JAY-Z. As per Hype Beast the Virginia Beach, Virginia native is prepping his new project. In turn he has made a couple appearances on media outlets to update his fans and the Hip-Hop community on his upcoming movements. He made a visit to Gillie Da Kid and Wallo on their popular platform Million Dollaz Worth of Game to chop it up. The trio discussed his history of working with HOV and he let the cat out of the bag. “I got three songs with him now … something from my new album,” he shared. “I don’t know if I was supposed to say that, but I’m up with y’all, though, we here.” When asked abo...
