VH1 News — Jay-Z's forthcoming album, The Blueprint 3, unsurprisingly leaked before its release, and we've got a profile. more info

Stereogum — Blueprint 3 is out 9/11, eight years to the day of The Blueprint's release, and Jay-Z is pulling out all the publicity stops. Over the weekend he courted the commie pothead demo via an appearance on Real Time (where Bill Maher presented him wit... more info

Stereogum — Blueprint 3 is out 9/11, eight years to the day of The Blueprint's release, and Jay-Z is pulling out all the publicity stops. Over the weekend he courted the commie pothead demo via an appearance on Real Time (where Bill Maher presented him wit... more info

Stereogum — Blueprint 3 is out 9/11, eight years to the day of The Blueprint's release, and Jay-Z is pulling out all the publicity stops. Over the weekend he courted the commie pothead demo via an appearance on Real Time (where Bill Maher presented him with a bo... more info

CNN Showbiz — Jay-Z wants everybody to remember the first responders who answered the call on September 11, 2001. more info

Stereogum — Blueprint 3 is out 9/11, eight years to the day of The Blueprint's release, and Jay-Z is pulling out all the publicity stops. Over the weekend he courted the commie pothead demo via an appearance on Real Time (where Bill Maher presented him wit... more info

VH1 News — Jay-Z talked about his 9/11 benefit concert at a press conference in New York on Monday. more info

The Newsroom — American hip hop artist Jay-Z to perform a charity concert on September 11. more info

VH1 News — Jay-Z explains that he was at Sunday's Grizzly Bear show in Brooklyn because he's a fan, and he hopes indie rock will inspire hip-hop to evolve the way rap once did for rock. more info

Pop Tarts Suck Toasted — Daniel Johnston - "Freedom"; A lot different is a bit of an understatement when talking about the changes found on this first track from Johnston's upcoming album Is and Always Was. The song has a much fuller, hi-fi sound that goes against all the po... more info