Irv Gotti Speaks on How Jay Z Helped Him With Tales

Music mogul/TV show director, Irv Gotti has taken a backseat to music producing for a while now, and is more focused on TV series making. His current baby is a show airing on BET titled Tales. In a recent interview on VLAD TV, Gotti spoke on how it was hard to get funding for his projects because of his past issues with the FEDS. He spoke on how Jay Z was instrumentally in him getting the full budget for the first season of his TV series, Tales, which has 8 episodes.

Read his words on this below...

"I was tainted, even after I was found not guilty. Here is exactly what would happen. I would go inside of a meeting, the meeting would be outstanding. And then I would leave the meeting, and I just felt like either someone who hated me called them and got to them, and said, 'yo, he's a gangsta, he's gonna have the FEDs raiding your offices.' Or something like that. Or they Google me...

Kash Dolls Talks About Opening Up For Beyonce During On The Run 2 Tour

Beyonce and Jay Z had the sequel to their joint tour, On the Run, the On the Run 2 Tour last year from June to October, and Kash Doll had the opportunity to open up for Beyonce twice at the San Diego stop of the tour in September, 2018. The Detroit rapper narrated how this came about during her recent The Angie Martinez Show interview a few days ago.

What had happened was that she had a cousin that danced for Beyonce during the tour, and the cousin told her how she could open for Beyonce during the DJ Khaled set of the tour. Read her words on this below.


"She like, 'I'ma see if you can go on Khaled's set.' I'm like, 'what you mean?' She like, 'cuz, some people, if they like you enough, you know, you could open up.' I'm like, 'open up for who?' She like, 'on Khaled's set for Beyonce and Jay Z.' I'm like, 'Girl! Okay, let me know.'...Beyonce, Jay Z, DJ Khaled, they don't know me. This is what I'm thinking. So she like, umm...she calls me back the next day like, 'cousin you won't believe it.' I'm like, 'what cousin?' Cos we call each other cousin. I'm like, 'what cousin?' She like, 'so DJ Khaled and them said you could come and you could come perform a song.' I'm like, 'I can perform a song, where?' So she telling me...I call my team, 'I'm opening for Beyonce. O my Gad! This sh*t's crazy. DADADADADA!' So...sh*t, I opened up for Beyonce, twice."

Top 5 Richest Rappers (Forbes List)

The Forbes employee responsible for calculating rappers net worth and ho much they make yearly, Zack O'Malley Greenburg was on The Breakfast Club show yesterday, and he gave a breakdown of the top 5 richest men in Hip Hop for 2019, and what makes up their net worth.

Before mentioning the top 5 richest rappers in 2019, he talked about a few rappers that almost made the list. In the list of those rappers were Birdman, Eminem, and Nas. He said if Drake didn't have such a big year, Nas would have been at the number 5 spot, instead of Drake.

Anyway, below are the top 5 richest rappers in 2019 according to Forbes.


5.  Drake ($150 Million)

4.  Kanye West ($240 Million)

3.  P Diddy ($740 Million)

Swae Lee Says Jay Z Has Shown Other Rapper That They Could Be Billionaires Too

Legendary rapper, Jay Z officially became a billionaire two days ago. This has got a lot of people talking in the entertainment world. TMZ camera crew caught up with Swae Lee yesterday and asked him who he feels is up next for that billionaire spot. And he said, he was up next. He went on to say Jay Z being a billionaire has shown other rappers that they could aspire to be billionaires too.

Read his words on this below...when asked who the next billionaire would be he said...



"It's me. I feel like I got so much time men! He just like...he just showed that it's possible, you feel me? He paved the way, he set a great example for the rest of us, the younger generation coming up. You know what I'm saying. We got plenty time to do the same thing."









So true. Jay Z has really made it look achievable for the younger generation of rappers, and that's a great thing.

Shark Tank's Barbara Corcoran Says Jay Z Deserves to Be a Billionaire

It became officially yesterday that Jay Z is now a billionaire; the first Hip Hop billionaire. A lot of people have commented on this, and the latest to do so is Shark Tank's Barbara Corcoran. Her show, Shark Tank is a business related television series, where entrepreneurs get to bring their dreams to fruition.

TMZ caught up with Barbara on the streets yesterday, and asked her if she knew Jay Z was now a billionaire, and she responded with...




"Yea, he deserves it. Come on. He is a self promoter, he works his ass off, why shouldn't he be a billionaire? I bet he will be a good shark. Why not. I'll make sure he gets invited."

Jay Z Becomes Hip Hop's First Billionaire

Although Jay Z and Diddy have been calling themselves billionaires for a while now, there haven't actually been any billionaire in Hip Hop. According to Forbes, Jay Z just became Hip Hop's first billionaire. It's about time. He has done so much in business I am happy he is finally a billionaire.

Dave East Says a Collaboration with Jay Z Would Bring Out the Best in Him

During his The Bumbu Room interview, New York rapper, Dave East was asked who he would love to collaborate with right now, and he said Jay Z. He went on to say the reason why he would want this to happen is because he believes being on the same song with Jay Z would push him to rap in a way he has never rapped before.

Read his words below...

"Hov. Jay Z. I don't know. Honestly with that I would want to kind of create something. I feel like just his take on the game and just the way he done twisted words and...just his wordplay over the years to me has been so elite. I feel like it would just umm push me to talk in a way or rap in a way I haven't maybe I haven't done before. Same thing I kind of with Nas. You know what I'm saying."

Sauce Money Says Jay Z is the Most Important Rapper in Hip Hop

Sauce Money is from the same projects (Marcy) as Jay Z in New York, and constantly collaborated with Jay back in the mid 90s. He was on the first three Jay Z albums (Reasonable Doubt, In My Life Time, and Hard Knock Life). During his recent interview on VLAD TV, he got talking about Jay Z, obviously, and at some point, said he thinks Jay Z is the most important rapper in Hip Hop.

Read his words below...

"He's doing well. Like he's taking it to a whole nother level. And you know, he is a trailblazer, so you know, as a fan of music, you know, I appreciate that. Like I can respect that. I really appreciate what he's doing...I want him to continue to take it higher and higher as far as he can take it...I always knew he was talented, but I would have never thought in my wildest dreams he would take it this far. You know this is just something totally different. I think that...I think Tupac is the most polarizing artist ever. I think Jay is the most important because of not just the artistry, but the business as well. You know. He is showing you that there is different ways and different revenue streams to tap into to, you know, cement your legacy. So like what he's doing is just like incredible. Just amazing."

Sauce Money Says Jay Z Had a Horrible Handwriting

Sauce Money is a legendary rapper from the 90s, and was a close friend of Jay Z during Jay's come up. In fact, they are from the same Marcy Housing Projects in New York, and he was around Jay Z when Jay was recording his first album, Reasonable Doubt.

While talking about those times in a new interview on VLAD TV, he was asked by VLAD how it is was watching Jay Z record rap verses without writing them down first, and he said...


"Well, I knew him when he was writing...he didn't have no choice not to write cos you couldn't read the sh*t that he was writing anyway. I would look at the pad and be like, yo, how do you even read this sh*t my n*gga. Like, this is crazy. But umm...then he started you know honing his craft, and then he stopped writing. You know, just doing it off the head. Yea."

Jay Z Speaks on How His Cousin Made Him Leave the Street Life and Face Music

In his mid twenties, Jay Z and his cousins moved into a building in 560 State Street in Brooklyn, New York, and were leaving reckless...street life, cars, girls. At a point, his cousin got tired of that life, and advised Jay Z to leave the life and focus more on his music career. Good thing Jay listened to him. He became successful shortly after leaving the streets and gave the music his undivided attention.


Jay Z narrated this story recently, during his visit to his old building on 560 State Street in Brooklyn. Read his words on this below...

"When I was leaving here, me and my cousin actually fell out. He was like, why are you in the street, messing around, something is going to happen to you. You are going to get locked up or killed. You fucking stupid. And I still had a bit of...you know, I wasn't as evolved as a person. I got this feeling, but I didn't trust em. You know, it was early, and I was feeling things and I was like, that ain't right. I always had good instincts. That ain't right, but you know, I still was...I was doing my thing. You know, new cars, and girls, and I didn't really wanna hear it at the time. 

Are Jay Z and Solange Having Issues Again?

3 years ago, an elevator footage leaked of Solange attacking Jay Z furiously, with Beyonce standing there doing nothing. If it wasn't for their bodyguard that was holding Solange back, she would have done a lot of damage to Jay Z's body. We still don't know what really caused that fight. 

It appears they are having more issues again...this time, it is allegedly over Beyonce's soon to be born twins. 

According to Radar Online...

"Solange has really been with Bey a hell of lot, doing prenatal yoga classes with her and rubbing stretchmark oil all over her. However, Jay’s insisting it’s his job to be there during the birth and wants Solange outside in the waiting area. It’s turning into a real standoff and bringing up a lot of past ill will, which is probably why neither of them have thought about asking what Beyonce wants!,” 

Former Rocafella Records Videographer Narrates How He Got Almost a Million Dollars from Jay Z

Veteran videographer, Choke No Joke used to be signed to Rocafella Records back in the day, and he handled most of their video recordings of events. In a recent interview, he spoke on how a misunderstanding with Jay Z led to Jay sending his boys to check him, which ended up being more physical than it should have been, leaving Choke with a broken jaw. And in other not to get into a nasty lawsuit, Jay decided to settle him financially.

Read Choke No Joke's narrative of this incidence below...speaking about the first time he actually films Jay Z at a concert.

"He seem like 'who's this dude keep jumping everywhere and filming. So, he go over to Ty Ty, right....Ty Ty go over to Dame. Dame...yo, he work for us, he down with Rocafella...Ty Ty goes back to Jay. Ty Ty goes to Shawn Arnold after that. He said something to him, and I see Shawn Arnold like...he gave him the shoulder like 'do whatever you gotta do.' The show ends. Jay clearly tells Ty Ty, 'yo, get that tape.' Umm! As we leaving the show, me and Dame's walking out. As we walking out, we the last two. Ty Ty jumps in front of the doorway, right. And when he jumps in front of the doorway, I just look at him like, 'what the fuck you gon do?' And he like 'GET HIM!' He tells his boys 'get him.'...Dudes start swinging, they try to jump me, whatever. Dame is standing right there whatever, I'm bobbing, weaving a couple of punches or whatever. One of the dude go and try to kick the camera out my hand, and when he did that I moved it, and when he moves, his foot went like this...it fractured my jaw...when he did that I went and dropped the camera. Ty Ty runs and snatches the camera and dips out the backdoor."

Choke ended up getting his jaw wired at the hospital, and when he got out of admission, he went in search of Jay Z to settle the issue. 

"At this time, Jay is on probation for the Un stabbing. So, me being a street dude, am not going to go...for me to get millions, my lawyer told me I had to press charges. Back then, me being...code of the street and everything, I ain't testifying. And I didn't really want to see him go to jail. You know what I'm saying. He's still Jay Z. He is still one of my favorite rappers. You know what I'm saying. So, I didn't press no charges. I called John Meneilly, and I say, 'yo something got to give.' He said 'Yo, Jay gon take care of you. What you want?' I told him a number, they came back with another number, we met somewhere in the middle, Jay paid me, I left it alone. That was it"

After he said this, one of the interviewers asked if his first number he gave was a million, and he said yes. He probably got paid around 200-400k. That's a lot of money. I guess that was really to keep him quiet, and he wasn't meant to speak on this issue ever again. But he did in this recent interview with the Breakfast Club crew on Power 105.1 FM. That part was cut out. The only reason we able to watch that cut part is because, being a videograper, Choke also had his camera set up for the interview.  

Watch the uncut part of the interview below. 

Nas's Baby Mama (Carmen Bryan) Speaks on How She Helped Nas Break Jay Z Down on Ether

One of the biggest rap beefs of all time was caused by a woman, and apparently, that same woman helped mold one of the greatest rap beef songs in Hip Hop history- Ether. Yup!

Although the reason Nas and Jay Z had beef was cos she was sleeping with Jay Z, when she was still with Nas (some times taking Nas's Bentley out to see Jay), she said she didn't like how Jay Z was going at Nas using her cheating ways as ammo, so she decided to help Nas breakdown Jay Z psychologically, because she knew a lot about him.

While explaining her role in the Nas versus Jay Z beef during her recent interview with DJ VLAD, she spoke on how she helped Nas craft Ether.

"Once I realized what Jay was doing, I was like, 'you know, am not going to allow him to belittle Nas anymore. Like, I'm the only person on the planet that can belittle this nigga. I'm not letting anybody else have that opportunity. And so, I just umm! Called Nas and was like 'alright let's talk.' So, I had a conversation with Nas like an attorney would have with their client. And I just basically told him 'listen, if you want to win this case, you're gonna have to go this route.' Cos I knew what type of person Jay Z was. Jay Z is very...he can be insecure. Umm! He has a little bit of low self esteem in certain areas. And, he's sensitive. And I kind of knew what areas to...you know...we all have sensitivities...we all have, you, things about us that we don't necessarily want the public to know about and I told Nas 'this is your opportunity to do whatever you need to do, but you have to do it all in one song. All of this subliminal...just rock this nigga, and let's move on.'...I told Nas everything that happened between Jay Z and I so that he could write the song consciously knowing what could come back as far as like, you know, a rebuttal." 

That was a chess move right there. That was why Super Ugly didn't have such an impact, because Nas already knew what was coming, He knew Jay Z's biggest weapon in the beef was that he had slept with his baby mama. But Nas's biggest weapon was that he had someone on his side that knew all the little intricate details about Jay Z. That's why, apart from stating a lot of facts and dropping the heavy diss lines on Ether, Nas had the funny lines like "Dick sucking lips" attacking Jay's secret insecurities. Lines like "were you abused as a child, scared to smile, they called you ugly" and "you no mustache having, with whiskers like a rat" were the real death blows on Ether. Cos they were the things Jay  had shared with Carmen Bryan in private. They were the things that made Jay Z's soul burn slow. They were the things that made him almost cry on Angie Martinez show shortly after Ether came out. 

Nas's Baby Mama (Carmen Bryan) Talks About Getting Pregnant for Jay Z

In a recent interview of hers, Nas's baby mama, Carmen Bryan spoke about being pregnant for Jay Z at one point in the 90s. For those that don't know her story and how she sparked one of the greatest beefs in Hip Hop history, let me run through her story real quick.

Carmen is legendary music producer, Large Professor's cousin, and Nas was working closely with Large Professor in the early 90s, and at one point, he met Carmen, and they instantly started dating. After a year of dating, they had a child (Destiny Jones) in 1994, Nas dropped Illmatic same year, and blew up on the scene. At this point, Nas is touring, groupies are all around him, and he and Carmen start having problems. And as he starts to neglect her the more, another rapper (Jay Z) started giving her attention. This was around 1997-1998. They started sleeping together, and Carmen Bryan got pregnant for Jay Z.

During the course of her recent interview with DJ VLAD, she was asked if she was ever pregnant for Jay Z, and she answered with...

"Yes. I had a miscarriage...This was before all of that (beef)...I think I was definitely less than three months. It was the first trimester...It wasn't anything crazy. It wasn't planned. It wasn't like 'oh, we gonna have this baby, then move forward with our...' No." 






That would have been one very odd situation. I mean, Jay Z and Nas having kids by the same woman. I bet Beyonce wouldn't have gotten into Jay Z's life if that had happened. I guess some things happen for a reason. 

Jay Z and Beyonce About to Buy a Bulletproof House for $120 Million

According to Page Six, power couple, Jay Z and Beyonce just put in a $120 million bid for a Bel Air hilltop mansion. That is some money, but heck, they are Jay Z and Beyonce.

The hilltop mansion has four swimming pools, bullet proof windows, 8 bedrooms, 11 bathrooms, 15 car garage, a recording studio, a separate staff quarters among many other qualities.

The mansion spans a space of 30,000 square feet, and more than 10,000 square feet of outside living space on two acres of land.

Checkout the pictures of the L.A mansion below.

Kendrick Lamar Speaks on How Jay Z Influenced Him

During his Saturday morning interview with Zane Lowe for Beats 1, Kendrick Lamar spoke on how Jay Z, Eminem, and Tupac were some of his biggest influences in the early stages of his career. He spoke on how he always wanted to have the conversationally feel of Jay Z verses, and how he started out not writing his verses (something Jay Z is known for) just because he wanted to be like Jay Z.

His words below...

"My boy Dave will tell you. I was in his garage and, you know, all my ad-libs sounded like Jay Z. My words. My flow...with Jay Z, I wanted to have the conversational type of wordplay and aspect of things, you know. Whether I am engaging in a story or I'm just having fun. It felt like he was natural and he was fluent with it."











And then Zane Lowe cut in to mention the fact that Jay Z doesn't write down his verses, and Kendrick said...

"Yea, I did that too...but it all...It all worked for me years down the line when I could go in and just do the craziest verse, you know, just off of emotions and of my own experiences. You know. Where I don't feel like I need to actually put the thoughts down on paper. You know. At first I was doing it because I just wanted to be like Jay Z. You know. But with time it became a practice. You know. And by the time I got back to writing my rhymes, you know, I knew the full potential in that. I knew the creative process in that, and what worked in that."

Jay Z Signs New Deal With Live Nation

10 years ago, Jay Z signed a $150 million ten year 360 deal with Live Nation to cover his next three albums. The deal also included the formation of Roc Nation, which is a entertainment company owned by Jay Z, under the Live Nation umbrella. Shortly after this deal, Jay Z bought the masters of all his albums from Def Jam Records, except from Reasonable Doubt, which was released on Priority Records back in 1996.

Ten years is up, and Jay Z and Live Nation are working on signing another mouth watering deal. The details of the deal are not known yet, but a spokesperson for Live Nation told Billboard yesterday that...

"Live Nation has a new long term deal with Jay Z and we expect to continue being equity partners in Roc Nation for many years to come,"

I wish Jay Z all the best on his new business move. The man has come a long way. 

Jay Z and Beyonce Once Considered Adoption

News making rounds right now, according to Radar Online is that Beyonce and Jay Z once considered adoption before IVF finally paid off. They dated for almost a decade before they got married in 2008, and even after getting married, they didn't have a child till 2012. People already guessed they were having problems having a child. I remember Game rapping in a Jay Z diss, "You can't even have a child by your destiny." Meaning, Jay Z can't have a child with Beyonce (a Destiny Child). I am sure that most have hurt Jay real bad.

That diss was back in 2009, and by 2012, Beyonce gave birth to Blue Ivy. Below is the (Rap Radar story on claims that Jay and B almost went the adoption route.

"They had finalized papers to adopt a child and were on the hunt for an orphan to take home when the IVF worked. It was incredible timing...Solange actually predicted this would happen — that they’d stop worrying about their fertility issues when they started the adoption process. Thankfully they’d not yet started visiting orphanages so they hadn’t bonded with any kids yet,” said the source. (Rap Radar)

Pic: Joey Bada$$ and Jay Z

Joey Bada$$ ran into Jay Z yesterday and took this picture. It appears he is kinda high. Nice pic anyway. Young Brooklyn knight with old Brooklyn knight. 

He shared the picture with this caption- "when you run into Hov but you a lil shmizz #brooklyn | 📸: @ashani"

Pics: Jay Z and Beyonce with Blue Ivy at Grand Canyon

You don't get too may pictures from them, but when you do, they are always classy. Below is a picture of power couple, Jay Z and Beyonce with their 4 year old daughter, Blue Ivy at Grand Canyon. The picture was taken last year during the couple's 7th wedding anniversary, but the picture was only yesterday released to the world via Beyonce's personal website, Beyonce.com.