In this episode of DECODED, JAY Z’s Life+Times sits with producers The Buchanans to learn how they secured their first beat placement, which became “What More Can I Say” off of JAY Z’s critically acclaimed The Black Album.

As premiered last week during Young Guru’s DJ set at SXSW, here is the final version of Kendrick Lamar’s remix to “Bitch, Don’t Kill My Vibe”, featuring Jiggaman.

Young Guru gave fans a preview of Kendrick Lamar’s “Bitch Don’t Kill My Vibe” remix, featuring Jay-Z. We usually don’t post performance phone footage, but this is monumental….

Kanye went on one of his usual rants at the Hammersmith Apollo on February 23rd, 2013. He delivers a new sung “verse”, with the words “I got love for Hov, but I ain’t fucking with that ‘Suit & Tie’,” and then blasts the music industry’s relationship with corporate America. Watch below….

The “Suit & Tie” team of Jay-Z and Justin Timberlake will unite for the Legends Of The Summer tour, which will begin with 12 dates throughout the U.S. and Canada, with more dates to be added. Ticket sales will begin tomorrow, February 27th. 7/17 Toronto, ON – Rogers Centre 7/19 New York, NY – Yankee [cont.]

Grammy-winning hip-hop icon 9th Wonder tells the story behind the production of “Threat” off Jay-Z’s “The Black Album.”

DJ Green Lantern presents “Jigga Man Bootleg”. After appearing as the intro to Altitude, “Jigga Man Bootleg” is released in it’s full song form due to heavy request from fans and DJ’s alike.

Directed by David Fincher. You know, of Seven, The Social Network, and The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo fame. 20/20 Experience due March 5th.

JT debuted a follow-up single to “Suit & Tie” from The 20/20 Experience, after his show-stealing moment at The Grammys last evening with Jay-Z. Check out the new single, as well as footage of his performance with Hov from the show. Beiber pissed.

Not much else has been revealed, but Roc Nation announced today that Timbaland is now a part of the Roc Nation management family. The photo below was posted, along with the caption “We would like to welcome TIMBALAND to the Roc Nation family!”

Produced by Timbaland.

In a tradition started right here some years ago on HipHopSite with God’s Stepson, 9th Wonder gets his remix on, this time taking on Jay-Z’s American Gangster album. 9th Wonder + Jay-Z – “Black American Gangster”

In this short documentary, Jay-Z’s Life+Times takes an unprecedented behind the scenes look at the creation of Jay-Z’s Barclays Center opening concerts.

2013 will see the release of Nate Dogg’s final LP, which will be made up of unreleased material, recorded before his death, along with some pretty high-profile guest appearances. Each Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Jay-Z, Mary J. Blige, among others, will appear on Nate Dogg: A Wonderful Life, which will hit on Seven Arts [cont.]

This track was featured on Meek’s recently released Dreams & Nightmares LP, however was once missing a verse from Meek, and instead had Jay-Z. Here’s a look at what might have been.

Uncle Murda’s great debate, “Big vs. Jay” finds him examining who is the greatest of all time. Directed by Picture Perfect, from The First 48 mixtape, dropping Nov. 27th.

Jay-Z performs at the Obama rally in Ohio, changing the lyrics to “99 Problems” to “I’ve got 99 problems, but Mitt ain’t one.” Fox News is going to have a field day with this…..

Swedish duo Cazzette take on Jay and Kanye’s “N***as In Paris” with this dubstep-infused remix of last year’s most popular hip-hop song. They’ve been playing this in their sets for some time now, and they finally decided to let it go today. Check out our interview with Cazzette for our sister site WeAllHitPlay.Com below, where [cont.]

Jay-Z appears in this ad for D’USSE cognac. Not to be confused with “budussy”.

Jiggaman may not be big on politics, but that hasn’t stopped him from teaming with the Obama campaign for this video promo, The Power Of Our Voice.