![]() ![]() I can't get into a golf club in Palm Springs." I gotta remind people I'm from Marcy Projects. ![]() That's ridiculous." He added, "That's crazy to me. "When people get a lot of money, they start getting those rumors like Tom Cruise, Will Smith. "I got a lot of money," he told Power 105.1 radio host Ed Lover on Wednesday, January 13. In a recent radio interview, Jay-Z who was recently ranked by Forbes as top-earning artist along with his wife Beyonce Knowles was quick to deny such allegation. Catch that little smile on security's face when Jay walks in the room.AceShowbiz - Soon after Jay-Z's "On to the Next One" video which features Swizz Beatz was premiered, rumor swirled suggesting the rapper was paying homage to Illuminati community. But it's also more proof that what he makes matters to people. We're kidding ourselves if we say any of this is new, or much more complicated than awesome - this is Jay noticing another method of pushing our topics of conversation around and an opportunity to use the bodily reaction most people have to his presence to be creative. But people who don't see the world the way they're told the world is recognize that quality in other people. ![]() Artists and musicians are usually told they're different. He exploits mirrored sunglasses and smears Storyboard P's dance over the bridge and it all adds up to warmth. That's the convergance that director Mark Romanek pulls focus on. Some of them may have been asked to appear here, but when he calls artists and hip-hop musicians "cousins," it fits. Jay catches some flack for mentioning only the most crossover artists and art institutions in his lyrics - and some of his ideas about property conflict with the concerns of art stewardship ("go ahead and lean on that s-, Blue, you own it") - but in the "Picasso Baby" video he relates to figures of the contemporary art world naturally. And then, of course George Condo, name-checked in the song itself, Lawrence Weiner, who also manipulates words, and Andres Serrano, who knows what it is to be vilified. And now Kehinde Wiley and Mickalene Thomas and Wangechi Mutu have to be in the room. If Fab Five Freddy wasn't in this video it would be illegitimate. Those moments of exchange heat the video, change it from a document to a work of art, but the visual artists who stand in front of and with Jay (his co-stars) represent another conversation - one going on since the 1970s between hip-hop and the art world. Dancers, little boys, mature ladies - they do them, and he does him. Williams and Rosie Perez who vibe with him, sure, but also Judd Apatow, who pretends to take a phone call, and art dealer Sandra Gering, whose flirty shoulder dip throws Jay for a loop - feel real. Jay is not, and the energy, at least as captured by the video, is at 11.Īt the beginning Jay says "concerts are pretty much performance art." At the end, he says "rap is thinking out loud." His face is open and the connections he makes with the people in the video - actors like Taraji P. It's a version of Marina Abramovic's performance art piece "The Artist Is Present," which she put on three years ago at the Museum of Modern Art. They ring the room while some of those in attendance step up and interact with Jay as he performs the song. The video for "Picasso Baby" - sorry, "Picasso Baby: A Performance Art Film" - was shot at Pace Gallery in New York City's Chelsea in July, with a backdrop of adoring fans, famous actors, fashion designers and artists. The Record Jay-Z's 'Magna Carta' Is A Fait Accompli Jay once again took to grandstanding on his music peers by appearing on Real Time with Bill Maher discussing public housing, America's lack of a middle class and NYC's unpopular use of stop and frisk all before the world premiere of a music video for one of his new songs, "Picasso Baby." In the interviews Jay has given this summer, with major market commercial radio stations, the BBC and new media personalities, he's pushed the idea that his moves as of late are bigger than album promotion - he sees himself as injecting new life and alternative revenue streams into a dying music industry model. The phone company bought a million copies of the album (most likely before it was even done), the RIAA changed their rules about bulk corporate buys and Jay Z went platinum before a single consumer had the chance to run out to the record store.įriday night was no different. The opening salvo was a 3-minute Samsung ad announcing the album title and release date that first appeared during Game 5 of the NBA Finals. Even without a real radio hit, he's remained at the center of the conversation with his #newrules approach to marketing his latest studio album, Magna Carta Holy Grail. The summer of 2013 has largely been about rapper/music mogul/sports agent Jay Z. ![]()
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