Beyonce Knowles has thrown a surprise birthday party for her husband Jay-Z who turned 40 last Friday, on December 4. In making the big celebration happened, the “If I Were A Boy” singer was helped by her A-list fellow artists whom she flown from New York by private jet. The bash itself was held at the Casa de Campro resort in the Dominican Republic on the birthday date.

Beyonce Knowles and Jay-Z have been in relationship since 2002. After several years of togetherness, the two got married at a private ceremony in New York City on April 4, 2008. Beyonce herself first showed off her wedding ring at the Fashion Rocks concert in New York, on September 5 the same year.

Diddy recently took to the airwaves and let it be known Auto-Tune is still near and dear to his heart…

New York mag The Vulture decided to check out the spot Jay-Z name checked in his hit with Alicia Keys “Empire State Of Mind”. Apparently the kitchen in which Jay was “Whippin like a Simmons…” was housed in a quaint Brooklyn apartment building pictured above. Check out the story below:

Jay-Z’s latest single, The Blueprint 3’s “Empire State of Mind,” has been blaring from plenty of cars of late, and while the soaring, cinematic tour of Jay’s rise to success, fame, and his subsequent enjoyment of the most sought-after seats at local sporting events (“I could trip a referee”) hasn’t turned rap on its head, the rapper does do something unique: He drops an actual address in among the self-aggrandizement and neighborhood shout-outs.

I used to cop in Harlem, all of my Dominicanos
Right there up on Broadway, pull me back to that McDonald’s
Took it to my stash spot, 560 State Street
Catch me in the kitchen like a Simmons with them pastries.

The whole world knows Jigga grew up in the Marcy Projects in Bedford-Stuyvesant. So why is he bigging up Boerum Hill? What exactly is at 560 State Street? Vulture investigated.

“I guess after Reasonable Doubt, it was time [for Jay-Z] to move somewhere else,” says Morgan Lieberthal, a resident of 560 State Street since 1997 (who also saw Jay-Z in concert at Madison Square Garden last week). According to him and other residents who have been there since the mid-nineties, Jay moved into apartment 10B sometime in late 1996 or early 1997.

Allowing for the obvious narrative liberties a rapper might take, the 500 block of Brooklyn’s State Street would seem to be an ideal location for a stash spot. Sheltered from the roaring intersection of Flatbush, Atlantic, and Fourth Avenue, this serene, verdant brownstone block is hidden in plain sight. It’s just steps from the busiest intersection in Brooklyn, and yet the only consistent noise is the five-times-daily call to prayer from a mosque across the block on Atlantic Avenue.

Did it seem like Jay-Z was engaged in anything shady? “That was just so not the vibe,” says Stephanie Jones, a writer and performer living in 9A since 1993. She remembers the apartment complex as an enclave for black artists at the time, including Lord Jamar of the rap group Brand Nubian and later of HBO’s Oz. She recalls a building populated with filmmakers and musicians. And Jay was, by all accounts, a cordial and respectful neighbor. “He would nod his head to you in the hallway. He’d open the door for you,” says Jones’s husband, Nathan Dudley, a Brooklyn school principal who moved into the building in 1998. “He always had a group of people with him, but not many going in and out.”

Dudley says that over the past few days he has seen kids in front of the building, awestruck and pointing, and employees at the Radio Shack around the corner, arguing over Jay-Z’s connection to the address. At the time he lived there, “he wasn’t mainstream or commercial yet,” says Jones. “He worked out of his apartment. Everyone here did. It was just a normal thing.”

LAST WEEK WHILE DOING A RADIO INTERVIEW WITH DJ TEVOR NELSON ON BBC JAY-Z MADE A COMMENT SAYING THAT “NO ONE IS SCARED OF 50″! WELL 50 HAD AN INTERVIEW THIS WEEK WITH HOT 97 AND WHEN THE TOPIC OF JAYS COMMENT LAST WEEK WAS BROUGHT UP 50 NONCHALANTLY STATED: “He should address the guy that made him feel like a punk…He had to make it clear that no one’s scared of 50 Cent, because that person was obviously making [him] feel like he’s afraid or Kanye West is afraid of 50 Cent. It wasn’t 50 Cent, and the public misinterpreted,” explained 50 Cent. HE WENT ON TO SAY THAT JAY IS THE COOLEST PUNK IN HIPHOP AND KANYE WEST AND LADIE GAGA UPCOMING TOUR AS THE “GAY TOUR”

EVEN IF YOU DIDN’T SEE THE VMA’S YOU HEARD OR SAW CLIPSE OF LIL MAMMA COMING UP ON STAGE WHILE JAYZ AND ALICIA KEYS PERFORMED “EMPIRE STATE OF MIND” FOR THE FIRST TIME. JIGGA FINALLY ADDRESSED THE INCIDENT ON ANGIE MARTINEZ RADIO SHOW HOT97

“I would never do that. I would never have the nerve to do that,” Jay told Angie. “We worked for weeks… we went to rehearsals, we did run-throughs, and we worked really hard on the performance to put on a show for people. To interrupt that moment for us, I don’t think that was the right thing to do.

“I actually think its the equivalent to what Kanye did to Taylor Swift, but nobody really talked about that because I’m not little sweet girl from the middle of America,” he continued. “I’m cool with her being excited and all that, I’m just saying that you have to understand people put in work to make that performance happen… if you look at those screens, we had to go to Yankees stadium, shot that live… to disrupt that was a little out of line.”

Disrespected, sure, but was Jay really mad?

“Yea, I was a little angry to be honest. But you know? What am I gonna do? Fight Lil Mama? Have a tussle with her?”

Here’s the album cover for the next Jay-Z album,looks kind of cool in a weird way but i guess we gone love it anyway.Not a lot of variety on the album which means we get a lot of hove and his lil brother kanye.Check out the track listing below.

TRACKLISTING

1. What We Talking About (Produced by Kanye West)
2. D.O.A. (Produced by No I.D.)
3. Weigh Me Down Feat. Kid Cudi (Produced by Kanye West)
4. Unforgiven (Produced by Kanye West, Additional Production: MGMT)
5. Run This Town Feat. Rihanna & Kanye West (Produced by Kanye West)
6. Empire State Of Mind Feat. Nas (Produced by Kanye West & No I.D.)
7. When It Comes To This (Produced by Timbaland)
8. Always Feat. Drake (Produced by Kanye West)
9. Scenes From The Past (Produced by No I.D., Co-produced by Kanye West)
10. Everyday A Star Is Born Feat. Mr. Hudson (Produced by Kanye West)
11. Already Home (Produced by Kanye West)
12. Forever Young Feat. Mr. Hudson (Produced by Kanye West)
13. Thank You (Produced by No I.D.)

Bonus Tracks:
14. Sound Of The 70s (Produced by Kanye West)
15. We Made History (Produced by Kanye West)

the game has been dissing jay-z publicly all over the world and we have yet to hear a response from hova on the music tip.is jay-z afraid to go head to head with game or is it he knows game is just trying to use this to boost his record sales for his upcoming release.do yall think jay-z should respond to game.to be honest i think jay is handling this all wrong.take a look at the game hyping up the crowd overseas.

“Brooklyn (We Go Hard)” by Jay-Z featuring Santogold will be the first single on the NOTORIOUS soundtrack coming in January..

Download / Stream Brooklyn

Jay-Z – Brooklyn (We Go Hard)

Off Jay-Z’s upcoming album “The Blueprint 3″ comes this radio rip from the Angie Martinez show.

Download / Stream History

Jay-Z – History

Updated: no more radio rip, added CDQ version.