JAY-Z BP3 IN STORES TODAY!

I had the honor & privilege to meet a legend, one of the greatest to ever touch a mic, a hip-hop don, the Brooklyn hero Jay-Z when he visited us today at the Cipha Sounds & Rosenberg Morning Show!!! It's a moment I will truly never ever forget!!!




Jay-Z has been up all day today doing major press for his bumped release date for the Blueprint 3 album which is in stores today as oppose to it's original date on September 11! Here's some of the footage from the interview today. Shouts to the homie Drewski. And yes that's me, ya girl JB in the background fixin the red carpet & balloon LOL. We keep it hood on the morning show!:

Catch the full interview on HOT97.COM or if you'd like to listen to it here:


Cipha Sounds & Rosenberg Morning Show: JAY-Z (JAYDAY)








Much love to Tim Westwood who was in the building too. A cool ass dude.





For all you Hova fans, I'm gonna hook you up with some vital info about him that you need to know!:

1. Jay-Z will be on the Late Show with David Letterman tomorrow.
2. He's suppose to be perform at the VMA's this Sunday ( I hope! Maybe him & Beyonce will do somethin together. Or be a part of the MJ tribute!!!)
3. Special concert goin down this Friday on 9/11 & will air live exclusively on Fuse TV at 9PM.
4. ***SPOILER ALERT***: He'll be making his first appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show on September 24th.

Here are his current accomplishments. Someone should send this to T-Pain & see if he could even compare:

1. Jay-Z has sold more than 40 million albums worldwide.
2. He's a 7 time Grammy Award winner.
3. Has ten #1 albums, which makes him tied with Elvis Presley & behind only the Beatles for the most of all-time.
4. More #1 debuts than any other artist in history with 10 total.
5. 18 Top 10 hits on Billboard's HipHop/R&B charts.
6. Co-founder of Roc-A-Fella Records, Rocawear clothing.
7. Co- owner of the New Jersey Nets, 40/40 Sports Clubs.
8. The first non-athlete to enter into a major footwear co-venture with the S. Carter line for Reebok.
9. First hip hop artist to headline Glastonbury in the UK.
10. Partnership with Live Nation, Activision for DJ Hero, Carol's Daughter skin care.

Say all that in one breathe!




Go support Jigga man & cop that Blueprint 3 in stores today!!!

JAYZ TALKS FAT BOY JIM JONES & 2 OF THE GREATEST TEAMING UP

The whole Jay-Z vs. Jim Jones beef has boiled over but there's a possibility of it reigniting if the Capo sees this!



In the recent issue of XXL Magazine, Jay-Z gave us some insight of what he thinks about the whole Jim Jones drama & winds up taking shots at the credibility:

XXL: Speaking of Jim Jones, he and cats like The Game stay throwing shots at you, referring to you as old and washed-up. But you’ve always thrived off that type of competition. So, currently in the most comfortable position of your career, how competitive are you?

Jay-Z: Not really that competitive, because the competition isn’t based on real competition. I mean, Game, I’m his f**kin idol. If you ask him and he’s being truthfully honest with you…it’s just based off his insecurities and, for the most part, pretension. That type of competition doesn’t do anything for me. It’s almost like someone trying to set you up, and everyone knows they’re to set you up, and everybody. It’s just dumb. It’s not in the spirit of competition, because he’s not competition for me. He’s not. Not then, not ever—he’d have to improve considerably. Competition for me competition is Nas, Eminem. Like Jim Jones? That’s ridiculous to me. So how do I respond to that? I can’t win. If I win, then they’ll be like, “See. Now chill. You’re a f**kin’ bully.” And if manages to throw a haymaker from the West Coast, then it’s like “Oooooh.” It’s not even fun. Like, before I did it, because I would diss anybody. Now who has time to do this s**teveryday? But before, when I was running after the little fat n***a from Ma$e’s camp, I was doing anybody. Anybody said anything. If I thought you said something. When I was running in the streets, I wanted all that type of activity. Nobody wanted nothing. Now everybody’s a tough guy.

Can it be true? 2 of the greatest MC's to ever touch the mic may be touring together???

Sources are saying that a Jay-Z and Eminem tour is definitely a go & will kick off sometime next month in LA and the last show will be towards the end of the year in NYC!

Makes a lot of sense since the two hip-hop heavyweights worked together on the DJ Hero game.

Opening acts will consist of Roc Nation's own J. Cole, Wale, Chrisette Michele and other special guests.

Sounds like a moneymaker.

WEEZY CONFIRMS CHILD W/ LAUREN LONDON & MORE TROUBLE ON TOUR

There's your confirmation but it's not like we all didn't know already. And that is so hoodrat for him to shoutout his first babymoms Toya & then talk about another babymama right after. If they would've gotten into Nivea. . . drama!









The America's Most Wanted Tour has some more issues?!!!




According to TMZ:

A hailstorm of stones and bottles rocked a Lil Wayne tour bus after a concert in Arizona last week -- and cops say at least one shot was fired in the melee.


According to police, it all went down after Wayne's show last Wednesday at the Cricket Pavilion in suburban Phoenix -- when 2 buses from his 4-bus entourage stopped at a nearby apartment complex.



Law enforcement sources tell us witnesses saw several women getting on and off the buses -- and it was then that certain people in the complex began to get violent.



Witnesses told police they heard at least one shot fired during the altercation -- though it's unclear who fired it.



Cops arrived to the scene and broke things up -- but we've learned a 15-year-old boy has since filed a police report claiming one of Wayne's bodyguards roughed him up during the chaos, bruising a few of his ribs.



Cops interviewed Wayne at a nearby hotel after the incident, where the rapper told cops he was on one of the buses when the attack started -- but his bus took off almost immediately.

This tour is really turning into America's Most Wanted!

R KELLY NEW ALBUM CALLED "UNTITLED"

The Pied Piper is back & is bringing a new album called Untitled with him!

R Kelly went about creating his comeback album a different way by throwing parties at his house to test his songs to see what worked, what made the ladies dance and what got the people on their feet & even went so far as to work with Southern producers to tweak his old school R&B style while generating a new edgy yet R Kelly sound.

He invited lots of industry people to his house over the weekend to listen to his new music & sources say that while on the tour of his studio, they found it to be very small with no vocal booth; instead there was just a microphone, a mirror right next to it and a keyboard that Kelly performs on and on top of that, they discovered he never writes any of his music down!

Here's some inside scoop from the horse's mouth via Bossip:

The Pied Piper’s explanation on the mirror:

That’s ego, I’m not going to lie. If I can’t really feel myself, you know I like to go upstairs and change my clothes and get swagged out and put on my little stoney glases and get me a stogie and I look in the mirror at myself sometimes and I can write and then the song will come. I’m looking in the mirror and I’m seeing Kells now, I’m not seeing Rob the mama’s boy. If I see Kells swagged out, then I say this is right right here. You have to have enough ego to be confident enough to get yo swag on while your writing certain songs. It doesn’t really hurt to look at yourself and really get into it.

Since you don’t write down your songs how do you relay the lyrics to people?

Some of them understand my process. Whitney that’s like my sister, we get into it all the time but she didn’t understand the process and Toni Braxton didn’t understand the process. You have to talk about them and crack on them. I’m a “mama jokes” specialist. Sometimes you got to get to cracking and ribbing on people to let them know how real yo a** is and ghetto you is and then once you get that out the way…

Kells: Now say this [starts singing] As I Lay Me Down… now say that

Whitney: what the f*ck you mean say that…. that’s all you got…

Kells: Hell yeah, that’s all I got but just say that for right now, you gone have to trust me some [ continues singing... "I Look To You"] and then now when it all starts to come together halfway through the song… Now yo a** wants to believe me… yeah whatever.

Is there anyone that you haven’t worked with that you would like to work with?

I want to get in with Stevie [Wonder] man… I want to get in with Stevie but I really want to get in with Stevie Wonder because Stevie continues my legacy and then I can continue his legacy. And then Stevie of course, he’s done so many hits, its like sometimes its hard to get with somebody else that’s going to continue your legacy. It was pretty hard for me and I understand I got to go to Atlanta to work with these new and younger producers and stuff if I want to stay current. I realize that I got something to give them too, I got something to feed to them but I got to realize they can feed me too. So its like hard to let your ego down and you’ve written so many hits for yourself and did everything, keyboard, production, everything yourself. It’s hard to all of a sudden say… Hold on Kells… so I think it was pretty hard for Stevie to just say, “Oh wait a minute, I got to do this with another younger guy.” Then Happy People kind of died out and then I ended up putting it on the Stepper’s Album. So it was cool though.

Kellz was also in the process of writing about five songs for Michael Jackson (a close friend) when he passed away and plans on finishing that project.

Untitled will be released on October 13th and a 36 city tour called Ladies Make Some Noise will kick off on October 8th right before the album drops.

Looks promising!

GAGA TELLS KANYE "OUR TOUR MUST BE GAY" & RUN THIS TOWN SNEAK PEEK

Lady Gaga & Kanye West have been working on a tour together for some time now & the newest details has Gaga telling 'Ye that her tour is & will be gay!




The self proclaimed hermaphrodite spoke with BBC about the groundbreaking tour that's set to start off on October 4th in Buffalo NY & she also sat down with Out Magazine for the September issue to talk about how the show will be catered to the homosexual world:

"I love Kanye ... he is my very dear friend and we are creative kindreds. It's been fun to work on the design of the tour with him — we're finishing each other's sentences. It's going to be one of the most groundbreaking moments in touring history, I am sure of it." she told BBC.

In Out Magazine, Gaga claims she told Kanye, "I just want to be clear before we decide to do this together: I'm gay. My music is gay. My show is gay. And I love that it's gay and I love my gay fans and they're all going to be coming to our show. And it's going to remain gay."

Sounds like the tour's gonna be gay.





And here is the sneak peek of Run This Town by Jay-Z ft Rihanna & 'Ye:

Looks brilliant!

DRAKE WANTS TO LOSE HIS LEG

Drake sure is persistent!



Even after his knee giving in and despite what the doctors say & even though he'll be going in for surgery this week, Drizzy showed up in his hometown of Toronto for the Amerika's Most Wanted Tour stop with cane & all:

He performed what else, Best I Ever Had.




What is wrong with this guy? If he doesn't sit his ass down and chill out for a few, he won't have a leg to walk with!

THE NEW SUPERCREW

This is a pretty bananaramic rumor I'm hearing!




Sources say that Jay-Z, Rihanna and Kanye West are planning to create a super group with the 3 together!




How ill is that?!




The group doesn't have a name just yet and it's still in the works but word has it the group will operate as a syndicate. All 3 of the superstars will be making an album together, as well as appearing heavily on one another's albums, go on tour and possibly opening a joint clothing line!




The album is said to be releasing during the mid year in 2010.




Can we say. . . money money money MONEY.




Hey isn't Diddy gonna be pissed since he's trying to break his new group Dirty Money which includes himself & 2 others???

LEBRON GOES TO THE WHITE HOUSE

So Monday, my boy Lebron and a group of his close friends visited President Barack Obama and were given a tour of the West Wing before attending the U.S. premiere of his movie More Than A Game, in Maryland.

I've heard about this film for a while now but it's finally hitting the states and its suppose to be really good. The film is a documentary and it chronicles the basketball star and his friends' rise to national champions while playing at St. Vincent-St. Mary High School in Akron, Ohio.

Lebron actually contributed to Obama's campaign and first met at a talk show taping last year.

I wonder if they played one on one at the White House bball courts? That would be an event I'd love to see! Obama looks like he could have a mean jumpshot.

AMERICA'S MOST WANTED TOUR

Remember when I said that Lil Wayne, Drake, Soulja Boy and Young Jeezy are rumored to be touring together? Well it turns out that it's true! The four will be performing on the America's Most Wanted tour, kicking off in Scranton, PA on July 27th. I posted the tour dates for those who wanna go.

This is gonna be one hell of a tour!

America’s Most Wanted Tour:

07-27 Scranton, PA – Toyota Pavilion
07-29 Saratoga, NY – Performing Arts Center
07-30 Pittsburgh, PA – Post Gazette Pavilion
07-31 Philadelphia, PA – Susquehanna Bank Center
08-01 Wantagh, NY – Jones Beach Theater
08-02 Virginia Beach, VA – Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
08-04 Toronto, Ontario – Molson Amphitheater
08-05 Montreal, Quebec – Bell Centre
08-06 Cleveland, OH – Blossom Pavilion
08-07 Washington, DC – Nissan Pavilion
08-08 Raleigh, NC – Walnut Creek Amphitheater
08-09 Atlanta, GA – Lakewood Amphitheater
08-12 Phoenix, AZ – Cricket Wireless Amphitheater
08-13 Los Angeles, CA – TBD
08-14 Irvine, CA – Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
08-15 Concord, CA – Sleep Train Pavilion
08-17 Vancouver, British Columbia – GM Place
08-18 Edmonton, Alberta – Rexall Place
08-20 Denver, CO – Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre
08-22 Houston, TX – Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
08-23 Dallas, TX – Superpages.com Center

And speaking of Drake, his video for Best I Ever Had should be coming shortly. I told you all a little while ago that Kanye is directing it and that's true. Rihanna starring in it however? Untrue.


XXL reports that the Young Money clan, Kanye West, his on again/off again girlfriend Amber Rose, Fabolous, DJ Clue, Trey Songz and Jay-Z himself (Drake's idol) were all present at Bishop Ford High School in Brooklyn to shoot the video.

LADY GAGA & KANYE WEST TO TOUR TOGETHER

Be prepared to be severely entertained!

Kanye West revealed on The View today yesterday that he’ll embark on a joint tour with Lady Gaga this year.

He said while on the show, “She’s talented and so incredible that she’s not an opening act. We’re doing it together, with no opening act.”


That makes a whole lot of sense since both artists are plenty to keep a crowd going!


Kanye West's Glow In The Dark tour was beyond words. Pure excellence at its finest. Match that up with the futuristic Lady Gaga.


This tour will be the one everyone will be talking about this year!

LIL WAYNE, SOULJA BOY, YOUNG JEEZY & DRAKE TO TOUR

Rumor has it that Lil Wayne, Soulja Boy, Young Jeezy and Drake will be touring together.

That'll be one heck of a tour if it's true.


I know that Lil Wayne & Drake are definitely touring together next month though.


We'll see if this happens.