With news of Zuccotti Park being cleared out early this morning we wondered what would happen to some of the celebrity support the Occupy Wall Street movement’s been getting. When we first saw multifaceted mogul Russell Simmons showing his support for the movement  back in September we...

A decade ago, on his album The Blueprint, Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter posed the question “do you fools listen to music or just skim through?”  The question was aimed at  those who would write him off as just another superficial rapper obsessed with materialism. Ten years, a...

Yesterday, Jay-Z,  hip-hop’s reigning cash king and minority owner of the New Jersey Nets announced that the basketball team will  now become the Brooklyn Nets. It’s kind of a no-brainer that the team will take the name of Jay-Z’s home borough and the location of their new...

Last week, the Internet was abuzz with the news of Lil’ Wayne  dissing Jay-Z on his just released LP Tha Carter IV. The album, which was supposed to make its digital debut on the iTunes store after Sunday’s VMA award show, had already leaked and made its rounds on the Web days...

Skilled orators are savvy marketers by definition. Take for instance, Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter. The rapper-turned-businessman can deem a product cool or passé simply by how he flips it in a verse. But does Jay-Z co-signing a brand in rhyme necessarily equal a boost in its respective sales?...