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Glastonbury attendees...and people who have never been to a music festival in their lives...are irate that Kanye West is headlining at this year's event. It's not the first time an act has inspired controversy at the festival. Here are four other acts that have drawn the ire of the world's most pure-blooded music fans. -
The Beastie Boys' 'Licensed to Ill' Reaches Diamond Status, Having Sold 10 Million Copies over 30 Years
One of the early smashes of hip-hop history, The Beastie Boys' 'Licensed to Ill,' has reached another epic sales plateau, receiving diamond status from the RIAA after it passed 10 million in sales as of March 4. -
Jack White, Jay Z to Release Insane 7" 'Magna Carta Holy Grail' Vinyl Set on Friday
Jay Z and Jack White have finally teamed up at long last. (It's just the collaboration you didn't know you needed.) Just a few months shy of Hova's two-year Magna Carta... Holy Grail anniversary, today (March 18), the rapper/mogul and White announced that they'll be partnering up for a special, limited edition vinyl release of Jay Z's 12th studio album. -
Kanye West to Headline Saturday at Glastonbury 2015: Full Lineup Pending
Kanye West has been a busy man on Twitter today. If you finished sifting through the random nudes he uploaded of his wife Kim Kardashian, hilariously captioned "SWISH!!!!!!" then you would have seen his latest update announcing that the "All Day" rapper is going to be headlining the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury on Saturday night. The announcement was confirmed by Glastonbury on their website. -
Jay Z and Bruno Spoerri Split Royalties of 'Versus' 50-50 for Unlicensed Sample; Nothing on 'Blurred Lines' Penalty
Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams were certainly responsibly for the biggest copyright infraction decision of the last week, which allowed Jay Z to get away relatively headline-free for his settlement with jazz performer Bruno Spoerri over the track "Versus" from Magna Carta...Holy Grail. -
Damon Dash Is Done Talking About Jay Z
Dame Dash and Jay Z helped build Roc-A-Fella Records into a massive success starting in the late 1990s. The two had a falling out after Jay Z unseated Dash and fellow partner Kareem Burke after he accepted the CEO position at Def Jam Recordings, which bought Roc-A-Fella. Now, after the two have not spoken in years, Dash is done talking about Jay Z, as he mentioned on Power 105's 'The Breakfast Club' Friday, March 13. -
Jay Z's $56 Million Bid for Aspiro Reportedly Accepted
Jay Z was reportedly successful in his $56.2 million takeover bid for Swedish streaming company Aspiro after all. -
Paul McCartney Talks Kanye West Collaboration: Macca Says Yeezy and Jay Z Are Poets
Fans of Paul McCartney and Kanye West may have been skeptical when news surfaced that the pair was working on music together. So far, though, the results of their collaboration have been well-received. "All Day," "Only One" and "FourFiveSeconds" featuring Rihanna are making waves on the pop charts and bringing the rock and hip-hop communities together once again. McCartney spoke to 'NME' about what sparked the partnership. Macca said he started to understand the rap genre more after seeing Jay Z and West in concert last year. "I was expecting it to be, 'Oh, it's great, it's hip-hop, it's loud ...,' but I hadn't until then got the urban poetry aspect," he said. "Like, Bob Dylan is a poet. And so is Jay Z, and Kanye." -
Listen to Jay Electronica 'Road To Perdition' Sampling Jay Z From Act II: Patents of Nobility (The Turn)
After what seemed like ages of waiting, we have a new Jay Electronica song. The Roc Nation rapper has uploaded "Road To Perdition" onto the web, which features plenty of Jay Z samples and is scheduled to appear on his long-awaited album, 'Act II: Patent Of Nobility.' -
Jay Z's $56 Million Takeover Bid for Swedish Streaming Company Aspiro Blocked
Jay Z has 99 problems and the shareholders of Swedish streaming company Aspiro are a majority of them. After rumblings of discontent from a minority group of shareholders, that same batch officially moved to block HOVs $56 million takeover bid of the Swedish company, which is the parent for WiMP and TIDAL. -
5 Celebrity Couples Releasing Albums in Same Year: Ariana Grande vs. Big Sean, Jay Z vs. Beyonce and More
This week marks a high point for the "power couple" status of Big Sean and Ariana Grande: The former's new album Dark Sky Paradise topped the Billboard 200, selling nearly 140,000 copies in the process. That gives him his first no. 1 album, which matches him with his girlfriend, who topped albums charts with My Everything last year. Grande may have outsold her beau but that doesn't necessarily mean she "wears the pants" in the relationship (it's tough to imagine her ever wearing pants, based on her typical stage apparel). Music Times looked back over the last few years and found couples who had both released new albums within a year of each other, researched who sold more and which album was ultimately better, in deciding who ran the house that year. -
Michael Bolton Annotates Kanye West & Jay Z 'Never Let Me Down': 'To Love Somebody' Singer Shares Blackjack Sample Story
Michael Bolton has taken on hip-hop's crowd sourced lyric engine, Rap Genius. In a rather surprising move, the "When A Man Loves A Woman" singer decided to annotate the song on the site, giving an explanation for how the sample used in the song from Blackjack's "Maybe It's The Power of Love" was cleared for Kanye West, Jay Z & Jay Ivy's "Never Let Me Down" for 'College Dropout.'
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