Island Def Jam Talks With Jay-Z Near End
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Jay-Z is in final negotiations to become president of Universal Music Group's Island Def Jam label, a source familiar with the negotiations said Tuesday.
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RAPPER Jay-Z cleaned up at MTV&#39;s star-studded Music Video Awards today, winning four &quot;Moonmen&quot; early in the show, and hoping to snag more before the lavish affair was over.
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A White House meeting on the future of the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay is no longer on the schedule for Friday, an official said after news reports that the Bush administration was nearing agreement on closing the controversial facility.
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Questions will be asked tonight at Madison Square Garden. Difficult questions. Questions about the futures of Felix Trinidad and Ricardo Mayorga. Very likely they will be questions only one of them will be able to answer.
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TAMPA - Jay-Z and R. Kelly may have been ``The Best of Both Worlds,&#39;&#39; but Jay-Z and Friends was something even better. The two, arguably the biggest names in hip hop and R&amp;B, respectively, had a falling out
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - Rapper Jay-Z has been named  president and CEO of Def Jam Recordings, home of such acts as  Grammy frontrunner Kanye West and rap veteran LL Cool j.
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Jay-Z and R. Kelly&#39;s &quot;unfinished business&quot; will probably be resolved in court amid conflicting reports of what went wrong with their joint tour.
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John Peel's widow and children are to finish writing the autobiography the DJ was in the middle of when he died.
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Jay-Z is to move to the boardroom after being put in charge of one of hip-hop's most influential labels, Def Jam.
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Two days after he pulled the plug on the Best of Both Worlds Tour, Jay-Z has announced that it&#39;s back on, but without R. Kelly.
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Call him the Michael Jordan of rap. Jay-Z, who declared that 2003's "The Black Album" would be his last, is coming out retirement and releasing a new CD.
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Lil Wayne's "Tha Carter III" has  been delayed numerous times in the past six months, but in his  first interview since his recent arrest on felony drugs and  weapons charges in Arizona, the rapper promises the new album  will be worth the wait.
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Jay-Z and R. Kelly&#39;s &quot;unfinished business&quot; likely will be resolved in the courts, amid conflicting accounts of what went wrong with their tour.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - Rapper Jay-Z came out on top of the post-Thanksgiving U.S. pop album charts Wednesday, tying the Rolling Stones for the third-most No. 1 hits.
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A negotiating window to allow Randy Johnson to work out a contract extension with the New York Yankees and perhaps for the Diamondbacks to talk to outfielder Shawn Green - steps in finalizing
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LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Rapper Jay-Z is on course to achieve his 10th No. 1 album on the Billboard 200, based on early sales estimates issued Wednesday.
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Jay-Z and R. Kellyâs Best of Both Worlds Tour has come to a halt after a show at New Yorkâs Madison Square Garden on Friday night.