Jay-Z will join the California-based cannabis company Caliva as Chief Brand Strategist as part of a new multi-year partnership. The rapper will help the company with creative decisions, outreach efforts and strategy, though a big component of his role will focus on the social justice issues surrounding legalization. Specifically, Jay …
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Beyoncé and Jay-Z won the 2019 Brit Award for Best International Group on Wednesday. Though the Carters were not present in person to accept their award, they recorded a clever acceptance speech in a video that paid tribute to Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle, the American wife who is married …
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After a summer of blockbuster albums (often to diminishing returns), Kanye West and Jay-Z are supposedly adding to the release schedule. On Saturday, Kanye West took to Twitter to announce:“throne2 coming soon.”However,it is unclear if both halves of the duo got the memo. https://thisforall.net/kanyewest/status/1038573949880164352 The succinct and mysterious announcement didn’t …
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The murder of Trayvon Martin and the modern day civil rights movement it inspired are viscerally depicted in the trailer for the upcoming Jay-Z-produced docu-series, Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story. The six-part series premieres July 30th on BET. The minute-long clip opens with a series of 911 phone …
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This morning, the Recording Academy announced the nominations for the 2018 Grammy awardsand for the first time, Grammy voters acknowledged the dominance of rap, R&B and Latin pop in the streaming era. Jay-Z led all candidates with eight nominations, but rising stars like SZA and Khalid also picked up five …
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On Sunday night at the Made in America festival in Philadelphia, Jay-Z was busy directing crowd traffic. There were two competing mosh pits near the stage, and the rapper urged a few revelers to step aside so that the rings could unite. “I promise you – you’ll have the time …
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