Rarely do we get to see Jay-Z do interviews, but Billboard caught up with the man at the NBA 2K13 launch event. He downplayed his “executive producer role” for the new 2K Sports title, “It was more like making a playlist than executive producing. But don’t tell ‘em that,” said Jay. “Executive producing an album, [cont.]

Cameras were not allowed in last night’s $40k-per-plate fundraiser for Barack Obama at Jay-Z’s 40/40 club, but this image was posted on El Presidente’s Twitter account. Who knew Jay was taller than Barack?

Arrested Development narrator Ron Howard followed Jay-Z around Philadelphia during his massive Made In America festival last weekend, and will release a documentary surrounding the event. Howard recently spoke to Rolling Stone about the experience: So did you have fun hanging out with Jay-Z? I really did. The whole thing was interesting for me. I’ve [cont.]

The New York Post reports that former drug-dealer / gangster rapper Jay-Z and scantily clad, “bootiliscious” R&B singer Beyonce will host a fundraiser for Foreign-Born-Muslim-Terrorist-Socialist-Homosexual-Loving-Job-Hating-Anti-Christ, President Barack Obama. Jokes aside, the event will happen Sept. 18th at Jay-Z’s 40/40 Club in NYC. Limited to 100 guests, the event will cost $40,000 per ticket. The presidential [cont.]

Closing London’s Paralympics this week, Jay-Z and Rihanna join Coldplay for a live performance, which not only included their hit single, “Run This Town”, but also a new rendition of Coldplay’s “Paradise”, with a new verse from Jay-Z, before an audience of 8000 fans. Jay spoke on the verse on his own Life + Times [cont.]

The latest offering from G.O.O.D. Music’s Cruel Summer super-group LP, which hits September 18th.

Exclusive in-depth interview with Joey Badass (Bada$$) and CJ FLY. Part 1 starts with The Progressive Era members talking to Nick Huff Barili about being on a national tour while still in High School, how Pro Era got started, who is involved and where its going. As the interview continues Nick asks Joey how he [cont.]

With 2 Chainz and Drake’s “No Lie” hitting the #1 spot on the Billboard R%B/Hip-Hop Singles chart this week, Drake has de-throned Jay-Z as the artist with the most #1 singles on the chart in history. He now holds 10 #1 singles, while Jay-Z has nine.

AllHipHop pretty much got the blowout interview with Havoc of Mobb Deep with this piece. In part three, he speaks on Jay-Z’s beef with Mobb Deep.

The first ever Rocawear commercial is a retrospective of Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter’s journey as a kid growing up in the humble projects of Brooklyn aspiring to make music and eventually making history. On that journey, the first business beyond music was the birth of Rocawear. Carter’s Rocawear brand represents his prowess as a business man [cont.]

In light of the announcement that Jay-Z would serve as executive producer for 2K Sports’s NBA 2K13, Kotaku spoke with the game company about what exactly that would entail. “I don’t want to get too into detail right now, because we’ve got a lot of stuff coming down the road,” Jason Argent, the vice president [cont.]

Although this is only a mash-up of previously released video clips, they did an amazing job in putting it together. A lot of good memories in this DRE Films directed clip. God Forgives, I Don’t, in stores now.

As far as we understand, Jay-Z codes without writing it down.

Budweiser Made In America Festival. Philadelphia. September 1 & 2. Benjamin Franklin Parkway. Featuring Jay-Z, Pearl Jam, Skrillex, Afrojack, Miike Snow, Meek Mill, Calvin Harris, Odd Future, D’Angleo, Passion Pit, Wale, Rita Ora, Savoy, The Knocks, TV On The Radio and more. Made In America? Well, at least half of them are. #outsourcing

Rick Ross stopped by and talked with Nessa about his new album, God Forgives, I Don’t, working with Dr. Dre and Jay-Z, signing Trina and who can ride with him in the Maybach.

This is pretty good.

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Rozay called into the Bootleg Kev show to speak on a few things, including: Self Made 2, Signing Nipsey Hussle, why he decided to drop 2 albums in the same month, his new album GFID, details about the record Sixteen featuring Andre 3000, why he didn’t feature any other MC’s on Maybach Music IV, his [cont.]

In a recent interview with ThisIs50 the legendary Large Professor revealed that there was one shot left in the chamber, in the classic 2001 battle between Jay-Z and Nas. “When Nas was first recording “Ether” it was over a Swizz Beatz beat, and he was getting at him,” Large Professor said. “That was the original [cont.]

Rick Ross shows off cover art for his collaboration with Dr. Dre, also adding Jay-Z into the mix. Don’t think it’s a coincidence that 50′s Dre single was announced today as well – these guys are playing chess, not checkers. This comes from God Forgives, I Don’t and is produced by Jake One.