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Jay-Z cuts 2 deals – with Live Nation & Beyonce
Jay-Z has had a big week. The rapper is expected to finalize a contract with Live Nation records soon worth $150 million. If that weren’t enough to celebrate, last night he reportedly married his superstar girlfriend, Beyonce Knowles.
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Although the couple has yet to confirm their marriage officially, they were spotted last week in Scarsdale, NY obtaining a marriage license.
In addition to paying Jay-Z $25 million up front, Live Nation would also finance his future endeavors, including any talent consulting, clothing lines, tours, albums, and record labels that the rapper would work on in the future. The conglomeration of Jay-Z’s efforts would be labeled Roc Nation. The company would then split future profits with Jay-Z.
Jay-Z is known for his entrepreneurial success outside of the music business. He has made significant achievements in both the fashion and nightlife industries. He founded Roc-a-wear, a clothing line he sold for $204 million last year. He also started his own nightclub, the 40/40 club, which now has locations in New York, Atlanta, and Las Vegas.
Although Jay-Z still owes another album to Def Jam records, where he held the position of president until December 2007, he will be paid $10 million per record by Live Nation. His contract will require three albums from Jay-Z in the next ten years.
This deal will further cement Jay-Z’s departure from his self-proclaimed retirement. In 2003, when he released The Black Album, Jay-Z announced it would be his last studio album. In 2006, he released the album Kingdom Come, which he followed with American Gangster, an album meant to accompany the Denzel Washington film.
Live Nation will ink the long-term deal with Jay-Z even though his last album, American Gangster, did not garner the same success of his previous records, selling about one third the number of records that The Black Album sold. Jay-Z refused to release American Gangster on iTunes because believed the album should be purchased as a whole and not by individual tracks.
This is the third major deal Live Nation has made with a top recording artist. The company signed a similar deal with with Madonna in 2007 and another with U2 earlier this week, worth $120 and $300 million, respectively.
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Jay Z Cuts 2 Deals With Live Nation Beyonce
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A kinder, gentler Rove?
Meet the new Karl Rove.
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If that weren’t enough, here he is in an interview this week with GQ, wrapped in his new, above-the-fray political persona talking about the joys of hunting, reading and traveling with his wife. But then, when questioned about the 2008 race, he lets fly the same old poison darts, disguised of course as analysis.
He opines that Barack Obama is “coolly detached and very arrogant,” Hillary Rodham Clinton “fatally flawed,” and Roger Clemens was telling the truth when he denied drug use to Congress.
Oh, and he takes stunningly little responsibility for the failed policies of George W. Bush or, for that matter, his abysmal approval ratings.
When you look back at your career, especially in the Bush administration, what’s the worst thing you did?
I’m not gonna be good at answering that.
But is there anything you feel guilty about? Or wish you did differently? [exasperated laugh] Off the record?
No! Don’t go off the record.
Off the record.
Okay, let’s look back, to the very beginning of the Karl Rove story, when you got handed the keys [from Bush the father, to deliver to Bush the son] until now. And you look at where the president’s approval ratings are today—
Yeah.
What did you do wrong?
Oh, look, I did a lot of things wrong. But the main thing is, we’re fighting an important but unpopular war.
You still think it was the right thing to do?
Absolutely. Absolutely. And you know, one of our biggest mistakes was, the first time Harry Reid got up and said, “You lied and you deliberately misled the country,” we should have gone back immediately and hit back hard, and we didn’t. We let that story line develop. In reality, you go back and look at what Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Al Gore—I’d be happy to supply you the quotes—what they said about Saddam Hussein possessing weapons of mass destruction.If all that doesn’t call to mind the old operator, Rove goes on to slam the one-time Republican campaign worker who has accused him of fingering former Alabama governor Don Siegelman as a “complete lunatic,” and CBS as a “shoddy operation” for airing her allegations.
Now there’s the man we recognize. But with all that so-called candor, we’ll pass on the memoir, thanks.
Click here to hear James Moore, co-author of “Bush’s Brain,” discuss Rove’s legacy in an interview with MSNBC:
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Philanthropist Alberto Vilar convicted in fraud caseNovember 19, 2008 at 3:52pm
A trial that has riveted the world of philanthropy ended today with the conviction of Alberto W. Vilar, a man who pledged, and sometimes gave, millions of dollars to the arts.
Breaux Lott Lobby Firm Argues for Northrop Grumman
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Muckety this! Ricky Gervais to Billy Bob Thornton
Although they’ve never been co-stars, Ricky Gervais can be connected to Billy Bob Thornton through a series of personal and business relationships.
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Fallon recently sold the rights to her novel to the film production company Echo Films, which was founded by Jennifer Aniston.
Aniston was married to Brad Pitt, who is currently dating Angelina Jolie, Billy Bob Thornton’s ex-wife.
Diddy on the way to a hat trick?
P. Diddy, Puff Daddy, Sean Combs, Diddy: It doesn’t matter what you call him, this man is a hit maker.
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According to Nielsen SoundScan, Danity Kane’s sophomore album, Welcome to the Dollhouse, sold 236,000 copies in its first week. The album was released on March 18.
Yesterday, Billboard reported that Danity Kane dropped from the top position on the Billboard 200 chart, and was replaced by Day26’s debut album. Day26 sold 190,000 records in comparison to Danity Kane’s 89,000 this week. Both groups are on the Bad Boy record label, which Diddy heads as CEO and founder.
Diddy is also the mastermind behind the Making the Band TV series on MTV. He put together the all-female pop/hip-hop group Danity Kane by eliminating potential candidates on the reality show Making the Band 3, which he produced. Danity Kane released their debut, self-titled album in 2006.
This year, he followed Danity Kane’s success with another season of Making the Band, in which he searched for members to make a soulful male R&B group. Making the Band 4 conceived the band Day26 and solo artist Donnie Klang, who didn’t make the band but was signed to Bad Boy records anyway.
Klang is expected to release an album soon, although a release date has not yet been announced. His first single, “Take you There,” which features Diddy rapping, is currently available on iTunes.
If Klang’s album hits number one when it’s released, Diddy will have produced a hat trick of top albums and will be paving the way for a successful Making the Band Tour. It was announced on the Making the Band finale that Danity Kane, Day26, and Donnie Klang will perform together in various cities this summer.
Making the Band certainly doesn’t portray Diddy’s modest side. Throughout the show, Diddy flaunts his star-status, shows off his wealth and refers to himself as the best in the business. Diddy even coins his own phrase, “Bitchassness,” which he stamps on a T-shirt, now commercially available through his clothing line Sean John.
After all the bravado and bragging, the charts have confirmed what Diddy has stated all along: He is on his way to re-establishing Bad Boy Records as a hip-hop empire, a status it hasn’t held since the late ’90s when was at its peak with leading artists Notorious B.I.G., Mase, 112, and Diddy himself.
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