Jay-Z talks about the early days of Rocawear with Tavis Smiley. It's a brief clip but just shows the smarts that Jay-Z has as a businessman starting everything off with three sewing machines and building it into a multi-million dollar clothing conglomerate. Via: BoomBox
According to Dr.Jays, Jay-Z was recently seen with Fendi head Karl Lagerfeld at a New York Fendi photo shoot. But Jay wasn't there to watch the shoot...he WAS the shoot. Apparently Jay-Z will be actually be a model for Fendi's upcoming marketing campaign. I bet Beyonce is mad jealous. No word yet when the campaign will launch.
Two international beat makers, Union Beats of Switzerland and the German production team Beatgees have teamed together to release an exclusive Jay-Z "Blue Magic" remix and t-shirt. Half of the tracks are remixed by Union Beats and the other half by the Beatgees. The t-shirt and music are packaged together like kilos of crack. Check out a pic of it after the jump.
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Reebok's S. Carter sneaker line has teamed up with Kanye West for the new limited edition S. Carter CL Low "Kanye West" sneaker. Available in four colors with some featuring suede uppers, the CL Low features Kanye's signature Kanye Bear insignia on the side heel of each sneaker. Check out the rest of the colors after the jump. These are available now for $124.95 at Sportie LA.
Related: Kanye teams up with designer Kim Jones for Pastelle fashion line.
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Dame Dash is pulling out all the stops to generate traffic for his Block Savvy website. Against Jay-Z's wishes, last fall Dame released covers to Jay's classic "Reasonable Doubt" album exclusive through Block Savvy. Now Dame is releasing a 10-part internet TV series called "Roc-A-Fella Family" which chronicles The R-O-C at its peak during the early days when Jay, Dame, Beanie, Freeway and the rest were all best of buds. Check out the clips at the Block Savvy site here but of course you must sign up first. Via: Defsounds
This has to be one of the most disturbing t-shirts I have ever seen. More disturbing than Hyper Color t-shirts or when Mexican Ponchos were "in." Street wear designers For The Homies have recently released the "Sailor Jay" t-shirt that will be available in stores world-wide. What stores I don't know. But you can also pick it up here at Yesdiggity.com. This shirt is just wrong to look at...on so many levels. Jay-Z in a sailor suit is not a good look. If you dare to look more check out the full front and back after the jump.
Jay-Z continues to buy up the universe. As most of you know by now, sparing the technical details (press release via our friends at ProHipHop), Jay-Z has recently purchased the clothing line Artful Dodger for $15 million in cash. Those who are familiar with the deal strongly feel that Jay-Z will be able to turn Artful Dodger into a high-end high-price fashion line that will have a much stronger presence in the urban fashion marketplace.
As seen from their current shirt line, the style fits right in line with current hip-hop and urban fashion with loud prints and designs. It's pretty safe to assume in the future though that the models showing off the Artful Dodger line will be a little more "diverse" than the current campaign. Check out the official Artful Dodger site here.
Elizabeth Arden, the cosmetics company that has brought you the Mariah Carey and Britney Spears perfume lines announced a deal with Jay-Z's Rocawear for the development, marketing and distribution of men's and women's fragrance, cosmetics, and skincare products under the Rocawear name. A debut fragrance is planned to launch in the fall of 2008.
Commenting on the new launch, Jay-Z, stated, "We are excited to partner with an industry giant such as Elizabeth Arden. The combination of their expertise in fragrance and our ability to affect popular culture will produce some incredible products and breathe excitement into the category."
Let's just hope that Freeway from Rockafella Records won't be endorsing the Rocawear brand aftershave.
MTV spoke with Jay-Z on Wednesday as he confirmed that he and Lil Wayne collaborated on a track that will be on his "American Gangster" album called "Hello Brooklyn." This is very exciting news as two great hip-hop artists who once had beef with each other are now working together. This is a very similar situation to what the Predator and Alien have been going through. And now to introduce their latest collaboration....the mother fuc*in' PREDALIEN. 
After one too many Patron shots in TJ, a drunk Alien and Predator hooked up at the local Motel 6 and made little Predalien shown here. Naturally he did not get along too well with the other kindergarteners. Ok I really have no idea how the Predalien was formed but it is featured in the new Alien vs. Predator Requiem which comes out this Christmas and looks totally bad ass. In case you haven't figured it out, there was no purpose for me to talk about Jay-Z and Wayne. It was just an excuse to share THE PREDALIEN!. Which is a better name than THE ALIENATOR.
Forget Kanye vs. 50, Raiders vs. Chargers, Kobe vs. Buss or Del Taco vs. Taco Bell...THIS is the ultimate showdown. Jay-Z vs. Frank Lucas (Denzel). We all know that Jay is dropping his new album named after the upcoming movie American Gangster with the movie coming out Nov. 2nd and the album dropping Nov. 6th. But who would really win the battle between Jay-Z and Denzel? Let's see....
Looks: The way to test this is if you are a girl and either Jay-Z or Denzel was NOT famous and hit on you at a bar/club who would you rather talk to? Yea I don't like dudes but I'm assuming the pick is Denzel. Ladies holla at me if you disagree. (Looks: advantage Denzel)
Style: Jay-Z is always looking prim and proper and brought this whole dressy-ghetto style to popularity. Denzel? I have no idea. But he doesn't own a clothing line. (Style: advantage Jay-Z)
Fighting Ability: Denzel has acted as a boxer, basketball player and inner-city cop. Jay-Z has acted as a president of a record label (OH DANG did I say that?!) Denzel might be older but he's like the old guys who sit on the porch all day sipping their moonshine...they look old but they will KICK YO ASS. (Fighting Ability: advantage Denzel)
Pizza Eating Contest: I know Jay has his hood roots but he seems a bit too proper now. Like he eats caviar and crap you can't pronounce now. Denzel he keeps it hood. Besides, in a pizza eating contest, Beyonce would butt in and try to join the contest....and win. Thus (Pizza Eating Contest: advantage Denzel via disqualification by Jay-Z via pizza all eaten by Beyonce)
Halo 3 Tournament: Both are fierce competitors but due to Denzel's age he probably doesn't even know the controls to the X-box 360. Jay-Z on the other hand probably enjoys some nice Wii Bowling every once in awhile sprinkled in with some Guitar Hero followed by a nice X-box live fest with Halo 3. Besides, he's with Beyonce...he plays video games to avoid her. (Halo 3 Tournament: advantage Jay-Z)
Results: So there you have it folks. After a tough round of competition it looks like we have a winner. Denzel wins by a score of 3-2. This means you must now watch American Gangster three times and buy the "American Gangster" album two times. Or for you UCI or UCLA students, this means download the movie three times and download the album twice. But don't do that. Illegal downloading is bad. Every time you illegally download, a baby kitten is infected with a flesh eating disease and will die. You don't want to kill baby kittens do you? Then don't illegally download.
Jay-Z vs. Denzel...who would you pick???
