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Girls' Jemima Kirke Reportedly Was Ejected From Jay Z's Video Set
Rich Juzwiak · 08/07/13 12:05PM![](http://d20hvt89h2l7r8.cloudfront.net/18waht1c1q1d5jpg/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800.jpg)
Artist Jemima Kirke got a little too clingy for Jay Z's comfort on the gallery set of "Picasso Baby," reports the New York Daily News. That's so unlike her disaffected Girls character Jessa. See what happens when, as an artist, you play against type? Your artist body loses control and your artist self gets shamed in front of luminaries such as Rosie Perez, Marilyn Minter, Jim Jarmusch, and your Girls costar Adam Driver.
Here's Jay Z's "Performance Art Movie," "Picasso Baby"
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I Don't Even Know, Man
Max Read · 07/10/13 03:12PMJay-Z Is Lip-Synching the Same Song for Six Hours and It's Art
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Jay-Z Is Answering Random Questions About Cereal on Twitter Right Now
Caity Weaver · 07/08/13 12:41PM![](http://d20hvt89h2l7r8.cloudfront.net/18t90edzvjemwjpg/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800.jpg)
If you have always wanted to have a confusing four word conversation with Jay-Z while he laughs at you, now is your chance: He is currently responding to fans on Twitter. And laughing at them a lot, via the hashtag #mylaugh. The vibe is kind of weird. Sort of like if you and Jay-Z ran into one another at the grocery store and didn't really have anything to say to one another, but still wanted to talk.
Adorable Old Lady Who Rode the Subway With Jay-Z Reviews His Album
Rich Juzwiak · 07/08/13 12:27PM![](http://d20hvt89h2l7r8.cloudfront.net/18t8z2vc8jtimjpg/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800.jpg)
Ellen Grossman, the visual artist who shot to virality when she appeared in Jay-Z's Where I'm From doc late last year, was enlisted by MTV News to share her thoughts on Magna Carta Holy Grail. While reviews of the $5 million data-mining operation have been mixed-to-positive, Grossman has nothing but generous words for it. Even though she has trouble with her hearing, she seems to like what she can hear, and besides, what's really important is that Jay-Z is trying. Says Grossman:
Magna Carta Leaks Early, But Not To All The People It Was Supposed To
Gabrielle Bluestone · 07/05/13 03:30PMJay-Z's New Album Is Basically A Massive Data-Mining Operation
Adrian Chen · 07/03/13 02:56PM![](http://d20hvt89h2l7r8.cloudfront.net/18sr45x5iqcxqjpg/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800.jpg)
Jay-Z's Magna Carta Holy Grail is not so much an album as a co-branded multimedia content delivery platform, Presented By Samsung™ Galaxy™. He announced it, after all, during an epic commercial for the phone, and Samsung is giving away a million copies to people who download a special app by July 4th. But now another, more unsettling use for the new album has become clear: It's a massive data-mining operation. Fans used to obsess over album liner notes; now they freak out about terms-of-service.
Jay-Z Announces New Album During Cellphone Commercial
Taylor Berman · 06/16/13 09:00PMIn an approximately four-hour long cellphone commercial that aired during Sunday's NBA Finals game, Jay-Z announced that he's releasing a new album, titled Magna Carta Holy Grail, on the July 4. The first one million copies will be available for download for free via an app for some cellphone owners on June 24.
Sandra Bullock in Talks to Play Miss Hannigan in Jay-Z's Annie
Caity Weaver · 06/13/13 06:00PM![](http://d20hvt89h2l7r8.cloudfront.net/18qqcwxv2gdxsjpg/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800.jpg)
America adores Sandra Bullock. No matter how many bombs she lobs at our box offices, no matter how many hitchhikers she drops bloodied and bruised on our dusty country roads, no matter how many Canadian dimes she plops in our tip jars, America adores her. For her next trick, Sandra Bullock will be get drunk and scream at a 9-year-old orphan that nobody loves her. America's going to adore it.
World’s Worst Friend President Obama: We Have 'Better Things to Do’ Than Plan Trips to Cuba for Beyoncé
Caity Weaver · 04/17/13 10:27AMPresident Obama showed his true colors in an interview on Today Wednesday morning, when host Savannah Guthrie asked if he had been aware that two normal, average American citizens named Beyoncé and Jay-Z were planning a visit to Cuba before the trip occurred.
Jay-Z, 'Rap's Bob Dylan,' Enrages Conservative Critics
Maggie Lange · 04/11/13 12:36PMSenator Demands Probe into Beyoncé and Jay-Z's Cuban Anniversary
Max Read · 04/09/13 07:20AM![](http://d20hvt89h2l7r8.cloudfront.net/18k3fd7lq9hp1gif/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800.gif)
Excuse me, miss: did you really engage in cultural exchange with the Cuban people? Florida Senator Marco Rubio is ringing the alarm over Beyoncé and Jay-Z's fifth-anniversary trip to Cuba last week, which he claims was "seized on for propaganda purposes" by the Castro regime. The brief vacation was apparently given the green light by the Treasury Department, which licenses trips to Cuba for "educational exchange activities that will result in meaningful interaction"; according to the New York Times, the crazy-in-love couple "visited the children's theater group La Colmenita, where Beyoncé danced with little girls dressed as bumblebees," and Beyoncé, apparently feelin' it, "half-danced" during a performance by the Cuban Contemporary Dance Company on Friday, which would seem to qualify (if she were a boy she might have, as her husband did, enjoy "a Cuban cigar on the balcony of their government-owned hotel, the Saratoga"). According to Academic Arrangements Abroad, which planned and arranged the trip, the officials that run this town (well really, who run the world of Cuba) had no foreknowledge of the vacation and "struggled to provide adequate security" (What? Who? we imagine them saying), but worked it out—and got Beyoncé bodies to protect her—in the end. "If interested in what life really like in #Cuba @S_C_," Rubio tweeted, "should have visited persecuted rapper #AngelYunierRemon #99problems&dictatorsareone." Listen, Marco: I know you have sweet dreams of showing Jay-Z and his naughty girl what you got, and I get that it's a hard knock life for politicians representing Cuban exiles—can't knock the hustle for Florida Senators—but surely you can work it out without resorting to bad puns based on Jay-Z and Beyoncé tracks? It's like you're making the songs cry. Move on to the next one. [Reuters | TPM | NYT]