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Highest Paid Musicians Of 2013 Ranked By Forbes

Ready to throw up? If you’re in a cubicle like me right now, reading this list only makes you feel sad and inferior. Forbes has officially released their list of the highest paid musicians of 2013. All of these statistics aren’t based solely on record sales and concert tickets, but musicians with the highest total […]

Josh Homme Of Queens Of The Stone Age Says Jay Z Is “Rude,” “A Kook”

Josh Homme, front man (and pretty much the only consistent man) of Queens of the Stone Age, recently lead the group to their playing at Jay Z’s Made in America Festival, and some things that happened there have caused him to air some odd beef with Jay Z. Queens of the Stone Age were frisked […]

Jay Z Magna Carta World Tour Dates Announced

New Yorker Jay Z will finally hit the road to tour his new album, Magna Carta Holy Grail, making sure to stop all around the world. His Legends of the Summer Tour with Justin Timberlake may have just ended, but let’s be real–having a busy life is the only way Jay Z seems to live. The […]

A$AP Rocky Charged With Assault, Allegedly Slapped Female Fan

Apparently things got a little physical between A$AP Rocky and a fan this past Saturday at the Made In America festival. According to a number of different news sites, A$AP was trying to make his way through a group of fans tugging at him, when he turned around and slapped one of the females. This […]

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Jay-Z Releases “Magna Carta” Video Featuring Justin Timberlake

The most successful pop duo of the year continued to flaunt their reign atop the charts this afternoon with the release of a new music video. Taking a far grittier approach to visuals than their “Suit & Tie” days, Jay-Z has released the official video for his Justin Timberlake assisted single, “Magna Carta.” The video […]

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Justin Timberlake Discusses Everything From Recent Collaborations to Miley Cyrus in New Interview

After recovering from the VMA chaos including a brief *NSYNC reunion and after parties, Justin Timberlake dropped by Hot 97 where Angie Martinez and crew had the pleasure of sitting down with the multi-talented VMA Vanguard Award winner, and touched on topics such as the collaborations on The 20/20 Experience Part 2, an unsurfaced Timbaland-produced […]

LISTEN: Hacktivist – “N****s In Paris” (Jay Z/Kanye West Cover)

Well, it appears someone let Hacktivist into their zone; the genre-bending group have released a music video featuring footage from massive festival performances for their studio cover of the Jay Z/Kanye West collaboration, “Niggas in Paris.” It’s definitely an interesting take on the song as their signature fusion of hip-hop and djent converts the source […]

MUSIC VIDEO: Jay Z – “Picasso Baby”

UTG won’t keep you waiting any longer and skip right to the good stuff. Jay Z dropped his new video for the single “Picasso Baby.” The video was directed by Mark Romanek at the Pace art gallery in New York City, with cameos from damn near everyone. “Picasso Baby” is taken from Hov’s new release, […]

MUSIC VIDEO: Icona Pop – “Girlfriend”

Icona Pop chose to drop the Tim Nackashi-directed video for their new single “Girlfriend.” This single riffs on the melody of Jay Z and Beyoncé’s “Bonnie & Clyde,” (which originally came from 2Pac’s “Me and My Girlfriend”). Watch out for “Girlfriend” to appear on Icona Pop’s forthcoming debut album, This Is…, releasing on September 24 […]

STREAM: The Blind Boys of Alabama ft. Justin Vernon – “Every Grain Of Sand (Bob Dylan Cover)”

Much like Jay Z, it seems like Justin Vernon wants to get his hands in on just about everything. Apart from Bon Iver, Volcano Choir, P.O.S., Gayngs, The Shouting Matches, and Kanye West, Vernon has taken gospel group The Blind Boys of Alabama under his folk arms by producing their new album, I’ll Find A Way, out October […]

Kanye West Wanted Jay-Z’s ‘Magna Carta’ Tracks To Appear On ‘Watch The Throne’

During a BBC Interview with Zane Lowe, Jay-Z revealed that Kanye West and himself got into a bit of a tiff during the production of their 2011 album, Watch The Throne. Apparently, two of the tracks featured on Jay-Z’s new album, Magna Carta Holy Grail, were advocated by Kanye West that they must appear on […]

Watch Jay-Z Perform “Picasso Baby” for Six Hours

Turns out Jay-Z spent yesterday doing a conceptual marathon performance of “Picasso Baby” at New York City’s Pace Gallery…for six straight hours. Maybe the rapper was a little jealous of The National’s performance of “Sorrow” for six straight hours at MoMA not too long ago. Watch footage from Jay-Z’s performance below the jump. The whole performance was filmed, the footage […]