• Kanye West to Headline Saturday at Glastonbury 2015: Full Lineup Pending

    Kanye West has been a busy man on Twitter today. If you finished sifting through the random nudes he uploaded of his wife Kim Kardashian, hilariously captioned "SWISH!!!!!!" then you would have seen his latest update announcing that the "All Day" rapper is going to be headlining the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury on Saturday night. The announcement was confirmed by Glastonbury on their website.

  • Damon Dash Is Done Talking About Jay Z

    Dame Dash and Jay Z helped build Roc-A-Fella Records into a massive success starting in the late 1990s. The two had a falling out after Jay Z unseated Dash and fellow partner Kareem Burke after he accepted the CEO position at Def Jam Recordings, which bought Roc-A-Fella. Now, after the two have not spoken in years, Dash is done talking about Jay Z, as he mentioned on Power 105's 'The Breakfast Club' Friday, March 13.

  • Paul McCartney Talks Kanye West Collaboration: Macca Says Yeezy and Jay Z Are Poets

    Fans of Paul McCartney and Kanye West may have been skeptical when news surfaced that the pair was working on music together. So far, though, the results of their collaboration have been well-received. "All Day," "Only One" and "FourFiveSeconds" featuring Rihanna are making waves on the pop charts and bringing the rock and hip-hop communities together once again. McCartney spoke to 'NME' about what sparked the partnership. Macca said he started to understand the rap genre more after seeing Jay Z and West in concert last year. "I was expecting it to be, 'Oh, it's great, it's hip-hop, it's loud ...,' but I hadn't until then got the urban poetry aspect," he said. "Like, Bob Dylan is a poet. And so is Jay Z, and Kanye."

  • Jay Z's $56 Million Takeover Bid for Swedish Streaming Company Aspiro Blocked

    Jay Z has 99 problems and the shareholders of Swedish streaming company Aspiro are a majority of them. After rumblings of discontent from a minority group of shareholders, that same batch officially moved to block HOVs $56 million takeover bid of the Swedish company, which is the parent for WiMP and TIDAL.

  • 5 Celebrity Couples Releasing Albums in Same Year: Ariana Grande vs. Big Sean, Jay Z vs. Beyonce and More

    This week marks a high point for the "power couple" status of Big Sean and Ariana Grande: The former's new album Dark Sky Paradise topped the Billboard 200, selling nearly 140,000 copies in the process. That gives him his first no. 1 album, which matches him with his girlfriend, who topped albums charts with My Everything last year. Grande may have outsold her beau but that doesn't necessarily mean she "wears the pants" in the relationship (it's tough to imagine her ever wearing pants, based on her typical stage apparel). Music Times looked back over the last few years and found couples who had both released new albums within a year of each other, researched who sold more and which album was ultimately better, in deciding who ran the house that year.

  • Michael Bolton Annotates Kanye West & Jay Z 'Never Let Me Down': 'To Love Somebody' Singer Shares Blackjack Sample Story

    Michael Bolton has taken on hip-hop's crowd sourced lyric engine, Rap Genius. In a rather surprising move, the "When A Man Loves A Woman" singer decided to annotate the song on the site, giving an explanation for how the sample used in the song from Blackjack's "Maybe It's The Power of Love" was cleared for Kanye West, Jay Z & Jay Ivy's "Never Let Me Down" for 'College Dropout.'

  • Longest Yearly Streaks with A Grammy Win: Jay Z, Bruce Springsteen, and A Surprising Decade-Long Winner

    Bruce Springsteen won his first Grammy on this day 30 years ago, a Best Rock Vocal Performance (Male) for "Dancing in The Dark." The Boss has gone on to gather quite a few more, totaling 20 wins over these last three decades. His most successful period came between 2003 and 2010, a stretch that left him in elite company: One of only five performers to win a Grammy in at least seven consecutive years. Check out the members, including Jay Z and Aretha Franklin, and prepare to be surprised for the record holder.

  • Jay Z's Takeover Bid of Aspiro Hits Snag as Shareholders Say $56 Million Offer Undervalues Company

    Jay Z made big news when it was announced that a takeover bid of 464 million Swedish krona -- $56 million -- was made for Swedish IT company Aspiro, the parent company of WiMP and TIDAL, through his Project Panther Bidco, a subsidiary of his S. Carter Enterprises. Aspiro management, pending shareholder approval, quickly approved the bid and the shareholders have handed down their decision, saying the price undervalues the company because it "does not sufficiently value" its long-term potential.
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