Here’s what tomorrow’s Live From Brooklyn EP looks like, which you can grab on Itunes in just 12 hours. Audio 1. Empire State of Mind 2. Run This Town 3. On to the Next One 4. Give It To Me/Big Pimpin 5. 03′ Bonnie & Clyde 6. Crazy in Love (feat. Beyonce) 7. Public Service [cont.]

This is what we in the industry refer to as a “publicity stunt”. On October 6th, Jay-z was spotted at the Canal Street Station catching the R Train To Brooklyn. He exited at the Atlantic Ave/Barclays Center stop and walked into the Barclays Center before performing his eighth and final show. Chaos ensues.

Select moments from Jay-Z’s historic eight-show run at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center, which wrapped tonight, will be captured on a special October 9th release called Live In Brooklyn, in both audio and video form.

Jay-Z will close out the final night of his eight night concert series at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center, by launching his new YouTube channel, and streaming the show on it. This will be an expansion of his Life + Times imprint, a lifestyle site launched by the rapper last year. Jay partnered with IconicTV, who will [cont.]

Torae borrows Jay-Z’s “Hovi Baby” instrumental produced by Just Blaze for the latest installment of Daily Bread.

Jay-Z speaks on meeting a 17-year old Swizz Beatz, who ended up producing tracks for Jay-Z’s Hard Knock Life LP, which is 14 years old this Tuesday.

Jay-Z is performing eight dates at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center. Here, we see a new verses performed acapella, and in second clip, he brings out the legendary Big Daddy Kane, as well as Scoob and Scrap Lover. So dope….

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.