Magna Carta Holy Grail

Jack White's Third Man Records recently revealed the release date for the vinyl edition of Jay Z's Magna Carta Holy Grail. The box set will be available for fans on March 20 and will include eight 7'' 45 RPM records in a clothbound binder, designed by Magna Carta cover artist Brian Roettinger...

Concert goers surely had no idea what was in store when 19-year-old Monique Burrell was pulled from the crowd during Jay Z's recent Chicago Magna Carta Holy Grail show and the cool thing about Monique is that she's joined Jay Z onstage once before too. After...

Today marks the 54th birthday of one of Brooklyn's finest, Jay-Z, the hustler-turned-rapper from the Marcy Projects who grew out of the shadows of Jaz-O, Big Daddy Kane and The Notorious B.I.G. to stake a credible claim to being the best rapper alive for more than a decade...

On November 14, 2003, Jay Z dropped The Black Album, his eighth and, at the time, final album. Less than two weeks later, during a show at Madison Square Garden, Jay officially "retired," ending the career of one of the greatest to ever do it. Ten...

With the short film/music video for Jay Z's "Picasso Baby" premiering tonight on HBO, the video's director, Mark Romanek, has been on a bit of a press run to help promote his collab with Jay. In an interview with Indiewire, Romanek—who also shot the trailers that led to the release of Jay's recent Magna Carta ... Ho...

Earlier today, it was reported that the Electronic Information Privacy Center (or EPIC) was asking the Federal Trade Commission to investigate the recent Jay-Z/Samsung partnership that led up to the early release of Jay's Magna Carta Holy Grail to Samsung users via a downloadable app. Around t...

BBC Radio 1's Zane Lowe delivers the second installment of four from his interview with non other than hip-hop mogul Jay-Z. Within this segment Jay-Z talks about the glory days of "Roc-A-Fella", his musical creative process, Kanye West, verses from Magna Carta...

Unsurprisingly, Jay-Z has scored yet another No. 1 album with his project Magna Carta ... Holy Grail. After dropping last week to much fanfare and a warm critical reception (and already being certified platinum by RIAA), Holy Grail marks Jay's 13th No. 1 album,...

Without much of a visible effort, Jay-Z inundated the whole damn Internet this week with the release Magna Carta Holy Grail, his twelfth solo studio album. For proof, go take a look at your favorite music site—floating near the top of the page you'll find at least two Hov-related stories, and maybe a lyric breakdown or two. Sinc...

Seems as if Jay-Z has been everywhere in the days following the release of his 12th solo album, Magna Carta Holy Grail; his Twitter spree from Monday was followed by two radio show appearances—on Hot 97 Tuesday and The Breakfast Club this morning—but the most, well, out there promotion that Jay's done to date is a performance art piece he participated in at Pace Gallery in Manhattan earlier today.

Adrian Younge has had a busy year. This April, the producer and musician released a collaborative concept album with Ghostface Killah titled Twelve Reasons To Die via Soul Temple Records, a project that was executive produced by one of Younge's longtime idols the RZA. Sin...

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