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NME backstage at Glastonbury 2022, actor and writer Simon Pegg told us about his friendship with Coldplay‘s Chris Martin and a recent trip to Disneyland with Jay-Z.The Spaced, Big Train, Star Trek and Mission Impossible star was talking to us just after his appearance in the Greenpeace Field, when he recalled a previous visit to Worthy Farm in 2016 when his daughter joined Coldplay on stage.“On her first Glastonbury she sang backing vocals with Coldplay,” said Pegg. “Chris Martin is an old, old friend and [my daughter] Tilly’s godfather. He invited her up on stage with his kids and their friend to sing the backing vocals on ‘Up&Up’.

Jay-Z and Damon Dash have both agreed to settle their respective lawsuits.As reported by Billboard, each party’s claims were dismissed without prejudice, with each side responsible for their own legal fees.The feud between Dash and Jay extends back to when they started Roc-A-Fella in 1995, along with Kareem “Biggs” Burke. Jay-Z’s career grew massively, and when Def Jam purchased Roc-A-Fella, there was a falling out that led to decades of shots back and forth.The feud hit a new high last summer when Dash filed a lawsuit against Jay-Z over the streaming rights to the rapper’s 1996 debut album ‘Reasonable Doubt’.

21 Savage has revealed that both Meek Mill and Jay-Z helped him get released from ICE custody back in 2019.Savage (real name She’yaa Bin Abraham-Joseph) was arrested by the U.S. Immigration And Customs Enforcement (ICE) in 2019 with a spokesperson claiming that Savage was a “United Kingdom national” who “is unlawfully present in the U.S.”A statement from his representatives at the time confirmed that Savage had been born in London, with his visa expiring in 2006 “through no fault of his own”. He applied for a visa in 2017 once he discovered that he required one with ICE being aware of his home address the whole time.His arrest caused backlash from Cardi B, Pusha T and Offset, with Jay-Z releasing a statement calling “the arrest and detention of 21 Savage an absolute travesty.

Bad Bunny and Tyler, The Creator are set to headline this year’s Made In America music festival. View the full line-up below.Pusha T, Lil Uzi Vert and Burna Boy are also taking the stage at the Philadelphia festival, which takes place this year on September 3 and 4 at Benjamin Franklin Parkway.

Work done by Team ROC, the social justice division of Roc Nation led by Jay-Z and Yo Gotti, could result in major changes to conditions at Mississippi State Penitentiary (also known as Parchman), Billboard reports. In 2020 Team ROC secured legal representation for more than 200 inmates at the state prison and filed multiple lawsuits that resulted in an investigation by the U.S.

It seems hard to imagine, but there was a time when JAY-Z hadn't yet transcended hip-hop to become an all-encompassing cultural force. When he headlined Hot 97's Summer Jam in 2001, JAY-Z was the toast of New York City's rap music, but his dominance wasn't unchallenged.

Jay-Z‘s performance at the June 2001 edition of Hot 97 Summer Jam at Nassau Coliseum in New York, over two decades after it took place.The legendary set saw the rapper bring out Michael Jackson and Missy Elliott and, infamously, debut his Nas and Mobb Deep diss track ‘Takeover’ ahead of its inclusion on the album ‘The Blueprint’ a few months later.While performing the song during his Summer Jam set, Jay projected onto huge screens a photo of Mobb Deep member Prodigy taking part in a dance class as a child. Jay went on to reference the moment on the studio version of the track, rapping, “Don’t be the next contestant on that Summer Jam screen“.Though audio of the set has long been available, video has not been easily accessible until this week, when YouTube channel HipHopVCR uploaded all 57 minutes of the performance in full, as Stereogum points out.

News12 New York).“They make fun of incidents of individuals that have perished prior to gunfire, opposing gang members. And a lot of the times what we’ll see, immediately thereafter, is a little spread of violence.

Jay-Z, Diddy and Fat Joe were among the stars who turned out for DJ Khaled‘s Hollywood Walk of Fame Star Dedication Ceremony in Hollywood, California yesterday (April 11).Khaled was introduced by Fat Joe, with whom he has collaborated on singles such as ‘Holla At Me’, ‘Pride N Joy’, ‘I’m So Hood’, ‘All I Do Is Win’ and more.“When I met him, he made me move out of New York to Miami,” Joe said, recalling memories of their first meeting. “When I think of Khaled, I think of love.

Jack White has revealed that he has been working with Jay-Z and unreleased music with the rapper could soon “see the light of day”.The former White Stripes frontman, who releases his new album ‘Fear Of The Dawn’ tomorrow (April 8), was speaking with Apple Music‘s Zane Lowe about his unfinished work and recent team up with the rapper.When asked whether the pair had been working together, White replied: “Yeah. That’s true, but it’s not me who doesn’t finish stuff. So it’s, uh…I’m not that guy.

Forbes has rolled out its annual billionaires list with Rihanna making her debut and fellow artists Jay-Z and Kanye West also making apearances. Rihanna's net worth has swelled to an estimated 1.7 billion thanks, in large part, to ventures outside of music including her Fenty Beauty cosmetics line and the Savage X Fenty lingerie business. This places her at 1,729 on the Forbes list.

Rihanna, Jay-Z and Kanye West have all made their debut on Forbes’ billionaire list alongside the world’s top earners.According to the annual list, Rihanna has now become the world’s richest female musician with a net worth of $1.7billion (£1.3bn), largely thanks to her Fenty Beauty business and Savage X Fenty lingerie line.She sits at number 1,729 on the worldwide list of richest billionaires, with Jay-Z following at 2,076 with a net worth of $1.4bn (£1.1bn), and Kanye, who sits at 1,513.At the very top of the list is Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, whose net worth is estimated to be a huge $219billion (£167bn).Second is Amazon boss Jeff Bezos, who is worth almost $50bn (£38bn) less than Musk with $171bn (£130bn).2,668 billionaires made the final list, down from 2,755 last year, with the collective worth down from $13.1trillion (£10tn) to $12.7tn (£9.7tn).See the full list here.Here's this year's definitive list of the World's Billionaires: https://t.co/UcFKZr1Ky3 #ForbesBillionaires pic.twitter.com/noTOhpYJ9t— Forbes (@Forbes) April 5, 2022Last year, Forbes shared a report claiming that Kanye West is worth less than one third of the amount he claimed.Back in March 2021, West’s Yeezy deal with Gap was set at $970million (£697million), reportedly bringing the rapper’s net worth up to an estimated $6.6 billion (£4.7billion).It came after West was revealed to sit only behind Jay-Z as the world’s richest rapper. Last April, after Forbes reported that the rapper was worth $1billion, West disputed the claim, instead insisting that his net worth was actually $3.3billion (£2.6billion).After the reports of West’s worth being over $6bn, Forbes shared an article disproving the claim.

Pusha T has teamed up with Jay-Z on the new single, ‘Neck & Wrist’, marking the first time the rappers have teamed up since ‘Drug Dealers Anonymous’ in 2016.The latest song to be lifted from Pusha T’s forthcoming fourth studio album, ‘Neck & Wrist’ sees Pharrell Williams undertake production duties. It also comes a month after Pusha confirmed that Jay-Z was on the album.“We call this ‘God level rap for dummies'”, Pusha quipped on Twitter.

Beyoncé goes, she always steals the show.Following a particularly exciting Academy Awards on Sunday, March 27, Bey and her husband, Jay-Z, made their way to an exclusive after-party at the Chateau Marmont. The songstress avoided being snapped by paparazzi at the after-party, but she did end up posting a series of photos on her Instagram days after the event.

Will Smith slapping Chris Rock during the ceremony. The “slap heard around the world” has since divided the Internet.

Jay-Z has come under fire for his decision to host an Oscars after-party at Hollywood's Chateau Marmont, despite an ongoing boycott of the venue led by a local hotel workers union. The Hollywood Reporter states that Jay-Z and Beyoncé's annual event, known as the Gold Party, will take place in the parking garage of the famous hotel after this Sunday's ceremony, at which Beyoncé is due to perform.

Kanye West was “too impatient” to put Jay-Z on his recent Fivio Foreign and Alicia Keys team-up ‘City Of Gods’, according to one of his collaborators.The track was released last month and will feature on Fivio Foreign’s upcoming debut album, ‘B.I.B.L.E’. It also appears on the ‘V2.22.22 Miami’ version of ‘Donda 2’ that West shared via his Stem Player last month.Speaking on Complex Brackets, Fivio Foreign discussed the track and revealed that West wanted Jay-Z to work with them on it.

Rapper Jay-Z and his daughter Blue Ivy Carter just had a blast at the happiest place on earth! The father-daughter duo were spotted at Disneyland in Anaheim, California on Thursday, also joined by Coldplay lead singer Chris Martin, his girlfriend Dakota Johnson, and his two teenage children, Apple, 17, and Moses, 15.

a list compiled by former longtime Forbes editor Zack O’Malley Greenberg.Jay-Z topped the list with $470 million after selling portions of his music streaming service Tidal and Armand de Brignac champagne last year, bringing his net worth to $1.5 billion. The “Big Pimpin'” singer sold 80% of Tidal to Jack Dorsey’s Square for a reported $350 million last May.

Pusha T has confirmed that Jay-Z will make an appearance on his upcoming album, the title of which is yet to be revealed.Featuring as a guest on the Millions Dollaz Worth of Game podcast, the Clipse rapper spoke about the new album, plus the Kanye West and 88-Keys produced ‘Diet Coke‘ which was released earlier this month.The single marked the rapper’s first for the year, hinting at more music to come. In the new interview, Pusha discusses his early start in hip-hop, beefing with Drake, his love for Virgil Abloh and what to expect from his return.When speaking about previous collaborations, including ‘Drug Dealers Anonymous‘ with Jay-Z, the rapper said “I got three songs with him now”, elaborating that one of the three is “something for the new album”.“I don’t know if I was supposed to say that,” he goes on to say, before adding “he got busy”, referring to Jay-Z’s work on the track.

JAY-Z, 52, was spotted at Super Bowl LVI with his daughter Blue Ivy, 10, on Sunday, Feb. 13. The rapper brought the pre-teen, as well as a friend of hers, onto the field at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles before the start of the game between the L.A. Rams and the Cincinnati Bengals. The father-daughter duo wore protective face masks and hung out on the field with others. JAY-Z showed Blue something interesting on his phone. His wife Beyonce, 40, and their 4-year-old twins Rumi and Sir didn’t appear to be at the big game.