Jay Z Archive

  • Are you a citizen of the Roc Nation? Well, then your passport is these Skullcandy headphones

    Are you a citizen of the Roc Nation? Well, then your passport is these Skullcandy headphones

    Skullcandy has officially announced the availability of their Roc Nation Aviator headphones, the only headphones officially sanction by Jay Z. Jay Z is a rapper who raps about, among other things, his 99 problems, New York, and detritus under your ear. The headphones actually look quite cool and they’re completely portable. You also have a mic [...]

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  • Maybe I’m the only one who doesn’t ‘get’ iTunes LP

    Maybe I’m the only one who doesn’t ‘get’ iTunes LP

    This is probably a question that the record labels should be asking, but I'll ask it here anyway: how do you guys listen to music in 2009? On your iPhone (or whatever portable device, it doesn't matter for the purposes of this here post)? On your computer while you surf your favorite Web sites? At the gym? Now, how many of you will sit in front of your computer, and devote 100 percent of your attention to the iTunes visualizer? Not too many of you, I'd venture to guess.

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  • FYI: You can download Jay-Z’s The Blueprint 3 today on Rhapsody

    FYI: You can download Jay-Z’s The Blueprint 3 today on Rhapsody

    Knowing you guys, you not only knew Jay-Z's The Blueprint 3 leaked several days ago, but you grabbed it instantly, and gained some nice ratio buffer in the process. Oh, and you listened to it many times over (as have I). Good, great.

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  • Unintended consequences: Jay-Z’s ‘Death of Auto-Tune’ boosts sales of the software

    Unintended consequences: Jay-Z’s ‘Death of Auto-Tune’ boosts sales of the software

    A few weeks ago, Jay-Z released the song “D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune),” much to the delight of some corners of the Internet. It's basically a song that rails against the proliferation of Auto-Tune, software that can alter/correct the pitch of someone's voice. Its most notorious use is to make the singer sound like a robot, thus hiding their inability to sing at all. It's huge in hip-hop, for whatever reason.

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