JAY-Z’S CHINA CONCERT CANCELLED:

 

 

Chinese officials feel his mouth is too dirty for the children; plus new ‘Show Me’ video to debut next week.

 

Jay-Z’s foul mouth is just too much for the Chinese government. The rapper’s scheduled Oct. 23 concert at Shanghai's Hongkou Stadium has been cancelled by China’s Culture Ministry out of fear that his lyrics will corrupt the minds of their youth.

 

"Some of Jay-Z's songs contain too much vulgar language," the state-run Shanghai Daily newspaper quoted Sun Yun, of promoter KS Production Co., as saying to explain the reason Jay-Z’s show is being scrapped.

 

The concert would’ve been Jay-Z’s first in the country. While his lyrics may have offended the culture czars in China, other groups who were recently given the green light to perform in Shanghai include The Rolling Stones and the Black Eyed Peas.

 

Jigga is in the midst of an international tour to raise awareness of the world’s water crisis. The global trip will be chronicled in an MTV special set to debut on Nov. 24.

 

Back in the states, the video for Jay-Z’s leaked single “Show Me What You Got” premieres Oct. 16 on MTV, despite the fact that its official radio add-date isn’t until next week. Based on radio play that began last weekend, the single should turn up on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart this week.

 

Directed by F. Gary Gray, the video features Jay-Z and NASCAR driver Danica Patrick racing through the winding roads of Monaco in a sports car piloted by fellow racing star Dale Earnhardt Jr., according to MTV. Later, Jay is seen on a speedboat, at a luxurious party and at a casino.

 

Jay-Z’s album “Kingdom Come,” due Nov. 21 via Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam, includes collaborations with Coldplay's Chris Martin, Pharrell Williams and Kanye West.

 

Source: Various

Jay Z is finally back. One of the all time greatest.

Just heard the track that Jay-Z and Chris have done together!! WOW!

 

The track is sick!! :D I'm really psyced about this now!

So looking forward to my favorite rapper releasing his comeback album!!

ummmmmmmm dude?! can u share that song????

 

wear the hell did you get it?

^^yeah.

Do'h, you gotta share the LOVE!!!

Sorry, guys! Don't have the track. I only got to hear it.

 

Been humming on the chorus all day! :singer:

Can't get it out of my head....but for real, I don't want this IMO killer track to get out of my head either so! :lol:

Awww. I wanna hear it!

I want to hear that also :D

I'm very very curious :D

YoL, any chance you can tell us a little bit about the song? What does it sound like, what's its name, what are the words??

 

Somethinnnn man!

Yeah prettttyyy please? :shy:

uhm.. well.. first of all, I don't even know the name of it.

 

And as much as I could try to explain how it sounds I wouldn't do it justice. It might just give you guys the wrong idea of how sounds. And once you hear the song it'll sound completely different to what you've imagined. And this was a couple of days ago now and it's a quite fuzzy now everything, basically just able to hum a bit on the chorus....over and over and over again! :lol: I wish I was more prepared for it, the DJ just went after the song:

- Know what you've just heard guys?! A very exclusive track Jay-Z and Chris Martin of Coldplay been working on!

 

I was like having a heart attack! :D

 

So I'm not even sure it's the final version or anything. But It had some killer beats and I really digged it!

Trust me, once you get to hear it the wait will be worth while...assuming it'll make the record that is! Could just be a demo of a song they've been working on as far as I know... time will tell I guess

wow!!! ^ can't wait to hear it!

 

i'm going to see jay-z in concert next thursday with my sisters! ahh so bloody excited! we got GA tickets so first come first serve...you can be sure we'll be right in the front :nice: :wow:

 

but i really wanna hear this track...isn't it called beach chair or something? hm, that may sound ridiculous but i did read that...somewhere.

We can download it in a couple of days ;) Believe me.

Petra, what makes you think we'll have it so soon? Do you know something the rest of us don't?? I've been all over the internet looking for leads, doo you have something!??!

 

:)

Jay-Z On Chris Martin

 

Jay Z has revealed the first details of his upcoming collaboration with Chris Martin, which is set to appear on his comeback album "Kingdom Come".

 

The hip hop superstar has worked with a series of hip hop icons including Dre Dre, Timbaland and Kanye West on the long-awaited follow-up to "The Black Album".

 

However, it is perhaps the track with Coldplay's singer, which has not yet been named, that has prompted the most publicity. Speaking to MTV, Hova explained how the new album came about, including Martin's role. "With this one, I didn't record with anyone. I didn't record with one producer. I went in with Timbaland, but we wound up using the stuff he sent me. With Dre...our phone conversations were the studio session. Same with Chris Martin. He sent me these wonderful chords one day, and he said he knew they were good because he almost didn't tell me about them. He was gonna keep them for himself. For one second, he said, 'I'm not sending this to him.' With Kanye, same thing, he dropped the track off."

 

"Kingdom Come" is due for release on November 20.

 

http://uk.news.launch.yahoo.com/dyna/article.html?a=/061019/340/gp7eg.html&e=l_news_dm

i know they are on here somewhere, but can someone post the link of the performances at the hall of beyonce and gwyneth. i can't find it :( it's weird. it was so easy to find the first time, and i wasn't even searching then :\

I collected most of them for my website, so here are two links that should help you:

 

http://coldplay.co.funpic.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=123&Itemid=56

(Three videos)

 

http://coldplay.co.funpic.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=127&Itemid=56

(One video from a different angle)

Petra, what makes you think we'll have it so soon? Do you know something the rest of us don't?? I've been all over the internet looking for leads, doo you have something!??!

 

:)

 

No I still have nothing ;) Otherwise you would know it.

But you know :) Internet is fast, and people upload very fast new things. So wait a couple of days, maybe a few weeks and you'll have it.

great links flying sparks, i really appreciate it. i know there are others but untill i track those down, these are perfect. thanks!

Some others are posted a few pages back I guess..

The new Jay-Z, a man of the world

 

TAIPEI — The struggle for global pop supremacy is fought on many fronts. On Saturday, rapper Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter took the Taipei Arena stage here in Taiwan, halfheartedly trying to forge a sense of solidarity with some of his fans overseas.

 

"We relate to struggle — we relate to y'all," he declared, only to be met with confused indifference. It was a constant motif: Throughout Jay's 90-minute set, the star and his island fans seemed unable to surmount certain cultural barriers. Frequently he would call for responses that never came, and then, in true showman style, pretend to find the crowd's tepid cheers awe-inspiring. Such are the growing pains that come with taking one's brand international.

 

Jay recently embarked on a seven-week world tour through Africa, Asia and Europe. This in itself was no great feat: Despite the presence of exotic-sounding venues such as "Karl Marx Cinema, Angola" dotting his itinerary, he is not the first entertainer to attempt a thorough blanketing of world markets. Nor was it entirely surprising that the tour brought an end to his self-imposed "retirement," which had struck many in the industry as a slow-nesting publicity ploy.

 

The remarkable aspect was that portions of the tour have been supported by the United Nations. Owing to a long-hinted-about interest in social justice, Jay used his African dates to film a documentary about the need for clean water in underdeveloped nations. When he and U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan made the announcement in August, it had the markings of a humanitarian deed. And his arrival elsewhere felt proportionally monumental, as he became the first rapper to play such august venues as London's Royal Albert Hall. Here was a by-his-bootstraps African American hero walking the globe, spreading something approximating international power-to-the-people goodwill — or so it seemed.

 

In Taipei, Jay's arrival was heralded as a chance for Taiwan to participate in a top American performer's comeback. It also was an occasion for a charming interface of the global and the local: At the news conference announcing the concert, a popular television hostess dressed up like Jay's girlfriend, Beyoncé, and mimed her signature moves; another presented Jay with a glass chicken — a reference to his Chinese zodiac sign. A production company planted a rumor that Taiwan's most famous athlete, New York Yankees pitcher Chien-Ming Wang, would appear. It is challenging enough translating the term "hip-hop" into Chinese; it is almost impossible to project its complex meanings and lyrical codes abroad. The scene at Taipei Arena suggested that locals had absorbed the aspects that travel the most easily: the fashion and enthusiasm for weed, mostly. While the crowd throbbed during Jay's biggest international hits — "Big Pimpin'," Panjabi MC's "Beware of the Boys" — the show lacked energy. For much of the night, Jay and his profoundly mediocre sidekick Memphis Bleek seemed satisfied going through the motions and offering generic praise for their Taiwanese fans. Although the show never approached its history-in-the-making billing, it did make for a fascinating snapshot of a career in transition. Jay-Z has achieved iconic status stateside, yet internationally he probably is more famous as Beyoncé's boyfriend.

 

The synchronization of Jay's world tour with his much-hyped comeback might change this visibility gap. To those who have watched him closely, the savvy fashion of his return should come as no surprise. His retirement, a break in name only, freed him to explore projects that would have seemed odd had they been part of his formal, hustler-to-rapper-to-executive career arc. Instead, performing with Phish, collaborating with Linkin Park or befriending Fall Out Boy could be done under the cover of novelty, the curious acts of a retiree unconcerned with his credibility among his core fans.

 

Through a cunning and controversial power play in 2004, he became president and chief executive of the storied hip-hop label Def Jam. Though he initially insulated himself from criticism by supporting established artists and onetime peers, his approval rating has steadily fallen. Longtime Def Jam rappers DMX and LL Cool J accused him of ignoring their needs, while sales for the latest albums from the Roots and Method Man suffered after they were inexplicably released on the same date. Instead, Jay has focused on a stable of younger artists, including singers Rihanna and Ne-Yo, oft-imitated Atlanta rapper Young Jeezy and the pixie-like British rapper Lady Sovereign.

 

It now seems apparent that retirement was merely a cover for Jay's ambitious makeover from famous rapper to bona fide global pop star. He has made decisions befitting a big-picture perspective. He announced the details of his new album in Entertainment Weekly rather than a hip-hop magazine. The video for his comeback single, "Show Me What You Got," features prominent cameos from race-car drivers Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Danica Patrick; it has since been reedited for use as a Budweiser commercial. And at his recent London concert date, his musical guests included Gwyneth Paltrow and her husband, Chris Martin of the band Coldplay.

 

His exploits both as an entertainer and a businessman earned him a spot on this year's Vanity Fair "New Establishment" power list; last year he was named GQ's international man of the year.

 

In recent years Jay has often compared himself to the basketball star Michael Jordan, whose genius was in transcending his status as an athlete and becoming his own international brand. Judging by Jay's diversified business ventures — clothing, restaurants, shoes, liquor, luxury watches and music, to name a few — he clearly aspires for something similar. His comeback album, "Kingdom Come," is scheduled for release Nov. 21, yet it's only one piece of the franchise.

 

And there's been skepticism about the extent to which Jay really cares about the means toward his end. His alliance with the U.N. was heartening, yet newspapers in Nigeria and Ghana reported that ticket prices prohibited casual fans from attending. Despite touring rural towns and meeting with African heads of state, many have wondered about any long-term benefit his presence might have.

 

Sunday in Taipei, the thrill of the previous night's brush with American royalty was still reverberating. Most newspapers applauded Jay for visiting the island, focusing on odd details such as the precise number of Louis Vuitton bags Beyoncé had brought. (The answer: five.) A small minority wondered why the pair had been unresponsive to local interview requests.

 

And the opening paragraph of several articles lamented the same thing: that Beyoncé never performed. Now that is real star power.

 

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/cl-et-jay23oct23,1,2817107.story?ctrack=1&cset=true

Jay-Z: Chris Martin Almost Kept Song

 

 

The rapper explains how he beat Coldplay to new tune

 

Jay-Z has revealed he had to compete with Coldplay for the title track of his new album 'Kingdom Come'.

 

Coldplay frontman Chris Martin is featured on the song, but it was touch and go as to whether he was going to offer the work he had done to his rap star pal. Jay-Z told MTV: "Chris Martin sent me these wonderful chords one day and he said he knew they were good because he almost didn't tell me about them. He was gonna keep them for himself," he added. "For one second he said, 'I'm not sending this to him.' With Kanye (West) it was the same thing, he dropped the track off."

 

'Kingdom Come' is released on November 20, and will be followed by the single 'Show Me What You Got' on December 3. It will be his first album since 2003's 'The Black Album'.

 

http://www.nme.com/news/jay-z/24828

The tracklist for Kingdom Come has been confirmed:

 

Disc 1:

 

1. "The Prelude" (Produced by Ghettobot)

2. "Oh My God" (Produced by Just Blaze)

3. "Kingdom Come" (Produced by Just Blaze)

4. "Show Me What You Got" (Produced by Just Blaze)

5. "Lost Ones" (featuring Chrissette Michelle) (Produced by Dr. Dre)

6. "Do U Wanna Ride" (featuring John Legend) (Produced by Kanye West)

7. "30 Something" (Produced by Dr. Dre)

8. "I Made It" (Produced by Dr. Dre)

9. "Anything" (featuring Usher & Pharrell) (Produced by The Neptunes)

10. "Hollywood" (featuring Beyonce) (Produced by Scyience)

11. "Trouble" (Produced by Dr. Dre)

12. "Dig a Hole" (featuring Sterling Simms) (Produced by Swizz Beatz)

13. "Minority Report" (featuring Ne-Yo) (Produced by Dr. Dre)

14. "Beach Chair" (featuring Chris Martin of Coldplay) (Produced by Chris Martin)

 

Disc 2:

 

1. "Politics as Usual" (Re-recorded Version, Bonus Track)

2. "Can't Knock the Hustle" (featuring Beyonce) (Re-recorded Version)

3. "Can I Live" (Re-recorded Version, Bonus Track)

 

"Beach Chair" is the official name of the collaboration between Martin and Jay-Z and its the album closer, which is big! Its not being credited as a Dr. Dre/Chris Martin production it seems, but there is A LOT of Dre produciton on this album, which is odd considering the fact that the two have barely worked together in the past.

 

The album is due out in two weeks, and the fact alone that they've been able to keep the tracklist under such tight raps until now is impressive. However, with as much hype as there has been around the comeback, I think it should leak within the next week.

I have a part of the album, but no Jay-z and Chris song....shit!

I have a part of the album' date=' but no Jay-z and Chris song....shit![/quote']

 

haha yeah indeed ;)