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Jay-Z recently discussed rumors of him bouncing from Def Jam:

So I gotta ask you: It’s December now. How are you feeling about your contract at Def Jam? That’s coming up soon.

You know, it’s active. We’ll see how it turns out. I mean, we’re close. So we’ll know in the next couple of weeks how it turns out.

The New York Daily News said last week that talks were stalling because you made some big demands. Is there any truth to that?

No.

So from your perspective, do you think you’ll be at Def Jam next year?

Yeah, I think — I don’t know. Let me not even say that. I don’t know. We’ll see how it goes. But seriously, it’s not about money. That’s really the last thing. Of course, as a person that does these type of things and puts his heart and soul into it — and it’s effective, as the Grammys would indicate — you want to be compensated for what you do. But it’s really not about money. It’s really about the future of the music business, and not wasting anyone’s time. I don’t ever want to sit in a seat just to sit in a seat. I could be off doing something else that’s beneficial to the future of the music business as well as myself. So it’s not about money! I mean, you couldn’t pay me enough. And I don’t mean that in a cocky way

Some people say Camel is hustlin’ backwards by getting another “job” but we disagree. The truth of his success is enough to shoot down the critics. Oh yeah, a new 40/40 is opening up in Vegas at the Venetian.

We just want the old man to put down the mic.

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Here are some shots of Beyonce and Jay-Z leaving their hotel and heading to the airport in Paris.

SMH at Camel still rockin a doo rag.

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Camel might be out of a job when he gets back from stuntin in Paris for his B’day. Universal says he’s getting a wee bit ridiculous with his expectations monetarily:

“He wanted big, big money that was way out of sync with the realities of today’s record business.”

Island/Def Jam CEO L.A. Reid and his boss, Doug Morris, are said to have found Jay’s demands “excessive” in light of the time he’s been spending on tour.

“People have lost count of how many times he’s come out of retirement. Everybody knows he’s not around the office much. Everybody at Universal loves him, but they can’t justify paying him the money he wants when so many people have been laid off.”

His contract is said to expire at the end of this month.

He doesn’t seem to be sweating too tough though.

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Beyonce and Jay-Z were spotted leaving the Costes hotel and head to the Chanel store for some shopping in Paris, France. The couple celebrated Jay’s 38th birthday last night by hitting up a strip tease show at the Crazy Horse cabaret.

They kinda have that royalty swag going on. What do you think?

Images via WENN

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Jay-Z recently spoke on dealing with his father’s death and his relationship with Beyonce:

“When I was young, the person I looked up to most was my father, and once I experienced that hurt, the separation from the guy you thought was Superman, you never want to feel that hurt again.” And now Jay-Z is convinced his relationship with Beyonce has improved as a result of his emotional bravery. Jay-Z says, “I’m sure she thinks I’m closed off. I’m working on it. Just trying to deal with emotional issues, taking them on proactively. Before, I wouldn’t even address it.”

Well at least he’s making an effort, but there is still no reason for non-gentleman like conduct in the photo above. Maybe it will take another tragic event for her to get some chivalrous action going.

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Jay-Z’s former homie, Dahaven , is getting a little more attention. He talked to New York Magazine recently:

Did you and Jay sell drugs together?

No, he ain’t do much selling drugs. I did all that work. He was just a good dude to be around. He was one of my best friends. I taught him some things, but I mainly kept him from being out on the street a lot. Whatever was mine was his. So, we shared clothes, we shared a whole bunch of stuff. We had sex with the same women plenty of times. We both got burnt! We had the drip. My mom took him to the clinic. My mom also got him out of jail.

Does Jay exaggerate his drug-dealing in his songs?

I’m telling you he overexaggerates. He was there to see things, but doing some big-time Frank Lucas–type thing? No. He nickled and dimed, but nothing on a major scale. He definitely didn’t sell nothin’ in Marcy. Spanish Jose, who he mentions a lot [in his songs], was a friend of mine. Jay didn’t have no affiliation to Spanish Jose.

You’re saying Jay appropriated your story?

He says it himself. He’s been talking about me since day one, on a lot of his albums. He mentioned me on The Black Album, and I hadn’t seen him in years.

Is Beyonce burnin? Carmen says either Nas or Camel gave her something back in the day. Video of Dehaven under the hood Continue »

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Here is your daily dose of Beyonce and Joe Camel. The couple was spotted in NYC yesterday.

At least help the girl down the stairs Camel, she is wearing high heels. This picture is not as boring as the usual stuff, we get some bent wrist and missing lacefront action. Ooooh.

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Today is the day for magazine covers. SMH. Jay-Z is on the cover of Rolling Stone, and Mary J. Blige covers the gay publication The Advocate and speaks about gay fans and homophobia in hip hop:

“The majority of my fans are gay. The majority of them are, and I have to really make sure that they know I’m paying attention to the fact that they support me, and I support them.”

“The real hip-hop, the real people don’t even care about that. They’ll love you and accept you no matter what because they know who they are. There are a lot of people trying to figure out who they are and what they’re gonna be. There’s a lot of confusion in that. Confusion causes a lack of identity. I’ve heard a couple of guys say foul things, and those guys are not around me anymore because when they say things like that, I’m looking at them like, What makes you so scared? You don’t know who you are? I guess it all boils down to them not being sure about themselves and what they wanna do, whoever that is. I won’t say any names. And I don’t dislike them or anything—it just makes me wonder about them period. ’Cause if you’re not sure about that, then you ain’t sure about a lotta things!”

Mary quote via ONTD

Trina also did a magazine cover:

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Jay-Z and MSN has made it so fans can view the taping of his sold out American Gangster concert in New York online:

Starting on November 19, fans can visit music.msn.com/jayz to access the concert for free. The free online broadcast gives fans the chance to witness Jay-Z, who sold out his five-date American Gangster tour in less than 5 minutes. Jay-Z’s American Gangster moved over 440,000 copies its first week in stores, tying Elvis Presley’s record for the artist with the most #1 albums, placing them behind The Beatles, who have 19 #1 releases.

Great it’s about time all those dollars people are shoveling out buying records and paying for concert tickets are being used for something.  Good for Hov, we glad to see that his album is doing better than Kingdom Come, now he can officially go out with a bang for real.  Retirement after making history is better than retirement after putting out mediocrity.

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Jay-Z recently did a photo shoot and interview with Blender Magazine and shares some information on the entertainment value of rap music:

B: At the end of a song on American Gangster you yell out, “It’s just entertainment!” What do you mean by that?

J: It’s my way of saying, “People, stop taking it so seriously — not everything rappers say is true to life.” It’s entertainment, too. If you can watch a movie and see Denzel as a character, you should be able to do the same when you’re listening to rappers. I know we’re always saying, “Keep it real.” But for the most part [he laughs] — it’s not true!

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