No. 1 with $150 million

You’d be smiling like 50 Cent if you topped Forbes.com’s Hip-Hop Cash Kings list of the top-earning people in the business last year. Who followed him?

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Beyoncé sported her wedding ring Wednesday night to Madison Square Garden, where Jay-Z gave a surprise performance during a Kanye West concert. But Jigga still wouldn’t confirm the marriage when asked by VIBE. Read the rest of this entry »

Seems like Jay-Z can’t decide whether to wear his wedding band. He was spotted wearing it for the first time on Monday when he left his apartment (bottom photo). But his left hand was bare last night when he and wife Beyonce (top photo) arrived to the Spotted Pig restaurant in the West Village. Does Bey wear a ring? Read the rest of this entry »

If, when he was growing up, Jay-Z’s mother ever told him he could be anything he wanted to be if he stayed focused and he doubted her, he wouldn’t these days thanks to Barack Obama. Read the rest of this entry »

Foxy Brown and Lil’ Kim are in legal trouble again. Neither delivered books they were paid thousands of dollars to write so the publisher filed suit.

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Celebs are known for submitting peculiar requests at hotels but this one goes at the top of the list:

Jay-Z requested a watermelon carved out in the shape of Beyonce’s breasts for display in his $5,000 a night hotel suite in Nigeria, according to Britain’s Daily Mirror, a newspaper famous for its gossip.

The newspaper’s spy says, “One giant watermelon was split in two and ornately carved into a mold of Beyonce’s boobs. Two cherries were used as nipples.”

Jigga performed at ThisDay’s Africa Rising concert in Abuja on Friday, along with Usher, who needs to give his crotch-grabbing a break, Mary J. Blige and Rihanna.

If the watermelon story is true, don’t you think that’s better than him hitting the streets trying to find someone with boobs like Bey?

Three months after American Vogue’s controversial cover with NBA star LeBron James unintentionally posing as King Kong and model Gisele Bundchen as Fay Wray, the magazine’s Italian counterpart Vogue Italia is making news with a nearly all black issue that features an array of black models from Naomi Campbell, whose topless photos warranted the diva a special section on the magazine’s website, to Tyra Banks. Noted photographer Steven Meisel shot the historical issue, that even shows Jay Z smiling, well sort of.

“Mine is not a magazine that can be accused of not using black girls,” says Italian Vogue editor-in-chief Franca Sozzani.

Was she taking a swipe at her American counterpart Anna Wintour? Wintour uses black girls. Remember Jennifer Hudson on the cover of American Vogue’s March 2007 issue with her mouth hanging open, a la LeBron? Notice a pattern here.

Jay-Z found some time while in England to check out Wimbledon on Wednesday.

The Brooklyn rapper never struck me as a tennis fan, but maybe he was there to root on Venus and Serena Williams.

Either way, it’s refreshing to see him without Beyonce on his arm 24/7.

Leave it to Amy Winehouse to go after the egomaniacal Kanye West.

The British singer, who will be lucky to see 2009, called West a “c***” at the Glastonbury Festival last weekend. 

Amy pretty much said what a lot of folks have been thinking for a while now.

Leave it to a woman who is practically on her death bed to stir it up with Kanye.

You knew West was going to respond (This just in… Amy Winehouse hates me!!! Now I’ve really made it!!! LOL!!!!) but Jay-Z felt the need to stand up for his Roc-a-fella colleague. 

“She said something about Kanye late on (in her set) but I didn’t hear it and I don’t agree with it. He’s my brother and the biggest artist on Roc-a-fella (records) right now. 

How cute. Big Brother standing up for Kanye.

We always knew they were a power couple, but the one with the booty’s got a little more juice. On Forbes magazine’s 2008 Celebrity 100, your favorite newlyweds made the top 10 power list in the entertainment industry. Based on fame and earnings, Bey edged out her hubby by three notches. Jay-Z showed up at #7, while Beyonce came in 4th. Oprah, of course, smashed everybody.