Jay Z and Kanye West final drop the video for one of the hottest tracks to be released as a single from the Watch The Throne album, N****s In Paris, check out the visuals below.
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Mary J Blige My Life 2 The Journey Continues released Fall 2011 includes the track Love a woman featuring Beyonce. Allegedly an off cut from Beyonce’s 4 studio session, Love A Woman was offered to Mary J Blige by Beyonce. A duet of female empowerment that really sets the bar vocally, lyrically and emotionally. To bring back R’nB in such a way in 2012 rumour has it that Mary J Blige and Beyonce will be performing this very song at The Grammy Awards in February, an event that will indeed confirm that Beyonce can bear the children then get back to business. Check out the soulful collaboration after the jump before the song becomes an anthem for Valentines day 2012.
Should The Queen of Hip-Hop Soul and Queen B put out a video for Love A Woman?
Jay Z – Glory
With the natural birth of Blue Ivy Carter, Jay Z marked the occasion by dedicating an unreleased track titled glory paying tribute to his wife and mother of his daughter Beyonce Knowles-Carter and their new born baby girl Blue Ivy, rumour has it that the unique name stems from a combination of the genius bodies of work that many say consist of Beyonce and Jay-Z’s best work, Blue as in The Blueprint and Ivy as in the roman numerals IV representative of Beyonce’s current album 4. Jay Z goes of to talk about Blue Ivy being conceived in Paris, the most amazing feeling he has ever felt, and Beyonce’s miscarriage back in 2007. A refreshingly simple and unique celebration of new life narrated by Sean Carter featuring Ivy Blue Carters vocals months after she performed at the MTV VMA with Beyonce. Listen to the audio below.
Frank Ocean has come 2nd in the BBC Sound of 2012. Christopher Francis Ocean is set to finally establish himself as a solo artist of Worldwide acclaim in 2012. The 24 year-old OFWGKTA member moved from Louisianna to Los Angeles following hurricane Katrina to work on his first album, and legally changed his name from Christopher “”Lonny”” Breaux shortly after. In L.A. the singer soon hooked up with the Odd Future collective and began work writing for the likes of Brandy, John Legend and most recently Beyonce on I Miss You. Ocean was also called up to work on two tracks from Jay-Z and Kanye West’s Watch The Throne. Collaborations aside, it was Ocean’s solo work which garnered most praise. Signed to Def Jam in 2009, Ocean delivered his debut mixtape nostalgia,ULTRA earlier this year, winning fans on both side of the Atlantic, including Zane Lowe, who debuted tracks from the release on Radio 1 in November.
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Beyonce The Lost Tapes
i-likeitalot.com were lucky enough to be in the house to view Beyonce’s live performances of every track off the 4 album during her visit to London a few weeks after Glastonbury in July 2011. Check out the performances that were not aired but were recorded especially for the ITV special.
Crazy In Love
Run The World (Girls)
I Care
Miss You
Party
Countdown
I Was Here
Congratulations to Beyonce and Jay-Z on the Birth of their Baby Girl! Born Saturday night in New York, according to multiple reliable sources Blue Ivy Carter was delivered naturally. We wish The Knowles-Carter family all the best from the i-likeitalot.com team.
Rihanna was among the first to congratulate the new parents. “Welcome to the world princess Carter! Love Aunty Rih,” she tweeted.
Check Out Kanye West and Friends performing on New Years Eve In Las Vegas, a once in a lifetime epic smash of a way to bring in the New Year.
Check out a preview of what happened when Kanye West performed under the alias DJ Yeezy World Peace as he spins for a private New Years Eve party. Watch Kanye West mixing some G.O.O.D Music below.
NME reports The Throne earned $6 million dollars to perform at the Sweet 16 birthday party of multi billionaire Manchester Football Club owner, Sheikh Mansour’s niece. Hov and Yeezy received $2.9 million each, a drop in the bucket for Mansour, whose wealthy family rules oil-rich Abu Dhabi.
Yeezy’s not stopping there. He plans on keeping the cash flowing through the end of the year, having recently announced he’ll DJ on New Year’s Eve under the alias Yeezy World Peace. Here is what that CRAY Genius says “My New Years DJ name is gone be YEEZY WORLD PEACE! If you book me you have to put YEEZY WORLD PEACE on the E-vite. Or I ain’t spinning,” Kanye wrote on Twitter. “Ima need a stealth bomber and 2 bottled water #YEEZYWORLDPEACE’S RIDER.”
Check out Kanye West’s protege Big Sean performing Celebrity from his debut album Finally Famous. Uploaded on November 22nd 2011 as a private video and previously not available to view in our territory, the live performance was recorded for Vevo’s series of Go Shows. The short clip is narrated by Detroit rapper Big Sean himself as the visuals document the before during and after of the performance which appeared to spontaneously take place on The Hollywood Walk Of Fame. Check out the performance below.