Jay-Z Leaves Def Jam

Jay-Z Leaves Def Jam Jay is happy to be 'a completely independent artist' after buying out his contract.
By Shaheem Reid



Now maybe we can get that Blueprint 3 album. Jay-Z has officially parted ways with his home for more than a decade, Def Jam. On Thursday morning (May 21), Hits Daily Double reported in its Rumor Mill section that Hov — who owed Def Jam one last album — bought himself out of his contract for $5 million.

On Thursday afternoon, Jay contacted RapRadar.com and confirmed his departure.

"I can honestly say, working with Doug Morris and L.A. Reid has been a unique and fulfilling experience, and I respect them immensely," Hov told the Web site. "I've been in the family for almost my entire career. Doug and I spoke directly and had one of the most unique 'negotiations' ever."

Jay said that negotiation included a coin toss. "Doug won the toss, but we both won in the end," Jay said. "I thank him for allowing me to be a completely independent artist. Not every artist can say they own or are given the opportunity to own all of their music."

Jay started his own record company, Roc Nation, and has been working on the Blueprint 3 with Kanye West since 2008.

In February, Jay joked that he was too free in making his latest opus.

"If I don't have any time constraints, I'll mess around, I'll never get it done," he said. "I'll be Axl Rose out here! It'll be 12 years later, and we'll be talking about Chinese Democracy. I really like the [time constraints]. But whatever happens, [the album] may turn out better, 'cause it'll be done when it's right."

I love Jay-Z and i am actually happy he left Def Jam. Now he can get to making this blueprint 3 so I have some decent rap to listen to for once lol. I am tired of "Swag Surfing" lol

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my top 10 wives

I got this from another blog I thought why not. It was hard to put these in order except for the first two. *sigh* they are my favs lol.

1. Janet Jackson- What I wouldn't do to be up close and personal with her Mickey and Minny Mouse tattoo. This pic is actually on my wall right now. Got it when I went to her concert. Been to everyone except the last one (dang recession).



2. Nia Long- Freshman year of college I watched love jones every night. I don't think I spent as much time watching the fresh prince of bell air until she started to date Will. She is so sophisticated and beautiful . I love love love her!



3. Lauren London-she has this ghetto appeal but i look at her dimples and just melt. I fell in love with her in ATL and love to see her in new projects.



4. Sanaa Latham-Who wouldn't love someone so smart,so funny,so versatile. She had me in love and basketball and even though she played a bad girl in the Tyler Perry Movie I still love her.



5.Kerry Washington-Loved her in She Hates Me and she stared and directed Common's video for I want you. Who wouldn't want her?



6. Rose Rollins-As soon as she became a member of the L word cast I was hooked. Fem or stud she is beautiful.



7.Gabrielle Union-When she bites her lip it drives me crazy! her facial expressions just do something to me,don't know what it is.



8. Keyshia Cole-She is a cutie. Everyone need a little thug in they life lol.



9. Keyshia Knight-Pulliam-When she was in the Chingy video with Jason Weaver I fell in love all over again.



10. Queen Latifah-She is the triple threat-actress,singer,rapper. I have always love her and had respect for her. Such a beautiful woman.

What Do you think

it is amazing the things that are being thought of on Face-book to help you pass the time. this one was kind of fun. basically you tag which ever friend you think fits the description on the pic. mine was pretty easy except for grumpy. I guess it is a good thing I don't have a friend that is grumpy all the time. But most of my friends agreed with the one that I made them. I mean you are what you are lol. It is kind of interesting and think back on how you view a person and how that helps them fit into your life. oh well just a Little humor for the day!

25 well 30 random things about me

Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it's because I want to know more about you.

I actually did 30 it was hard to break everything down. But we will see if you learned anything new about me.

1. I don’t eat ribs and sweet potato pie (please don’t take my black card for this lol).
2. I don’t like Cherry anything but I love to drink Cherry Pepsi and Coke.
3. I am the youngest of 6 and my brother is pretty much old enough to be my dad lol.
4. I have a niece I have never met .
5. Like my friend Theo I am a geek. I have this thing for Archie comic books. I really have to stop myself from buying them sometimes. Been doing it since there was a Mega market to go to. (If you are from Memphis you know what I am talking about).I also collect basketball cards. Have quite a few of M.J.
6. I was raised by a KAPPA….no more needs to be said lol.
7. I play the Alto Sax and the Piano. Still working on those piano skills though.
8. I spend at least 10 hours if not more on the computer a day. Between work, school and blogging it really doesn’t seem that long when I am doing it. I have two different blogs and up to 5 email addresses. A lot I know.
9. I wear glasses. (Most people have never seen me in any).
10. I have at least one picture of every single person I graduated from high school with. (if anyone needs a slide-show for the reunion I gotcha lol)
11. I am the one my friends come to with their problems and issues. I am actually quite good at giving out words of encouragement.
12. I send over 3,000 texts a month if not more. I don’t like to talk on the phone. Texting is much better for me.
13. Most of my family calls me Nikki, Nicole is more of my first name then my actual first name lol.
14. I love wearing men’s ties and watches. (I get that from my dad).
15. My favorite movie all time is Love Jones, use to watch it almost every night my freshman year.
16. I use to teach Sunday school classes when I was younger.
17. Taking pictures is therapy for my mother’s death. Hit me up and I will tell you the story. I have enough pictures for over 5 scrapbooks if not more.
18. I love motorcycles but will never ride one because of the fear of getting hurt.
19. I met Jesse Jackson when the National Civil Rights Museum opened in Memphis. I fainted because I have fainting attacks and when I woke up he handed me Lemonade to drink lol.
20. I use LOL a lot when I type (as you can tell from these random things. (smile)
21. While working at the collegiate apartment complexes I saw some of the nastiest things I have seen in my life! And I can never look at those people the same again.
22. I have helped at least 4 friends not get evicted from their apartments ,I am such a good friend.(smile)
23. I love personal gifts, they mean much more then things that are brought from stores.
24. I love r&b and jazz. And I watch HGTV and the First 48 as much as I watch ESPN.
25. I have been thru way more in my life then I lot of people know but I have always learned to keep a smile on my face, because there is always someone out there that has been thru more than me. I use my life and examples to help others as best I can.
26. My mother was my everything and I miss her more and more as the years go by. So many times I wish she was here for me to talk to on this earth.
27. My sister is my biggest confidant.
28. I love my niece and nephew more then they will ever know because so much of me I can see in them.
29. I write poetry in my spare time and have been published twice.
30. This one is only for people that are close to me and they should already know what it is. If not shoot me a text to find out lol.(for all my blog readers im pretty sure you can guess what this one is and no ,no one asked me lol)

My Life, Characters and Craziness.

My friends say I have an entertaining life. I say I have friends that have or cause drama and sometimes it is the unnecessary drama that is funny. I am the Dr. Phil of my friends,straight,lesbian or otherwise. I am the one that hears everything and sometimes gets put in the middle. Have you ever had a full out fight between two people over text message?One of which is not using their phone but a phone they got from a friend to talk to their new friend,so that their boo wouldn't know they were talking?(yea a lot i know). And did I mention that the boo and new friend were suppose to be best-friends? My life is full of juiciness lol. So I have decided to tell some of the stories in hopes to get my mind flowing to start on my book about life and relationships. I have a friend who is about to get published and he and others are pushing me to do mine. I do give good advice to others,although sometimes I can't even follow my own advice. *sigh* so I guess I should start out with a list of characters so that it will be a little easier to follow. Got that idea from Alix(thanks brown girl). She has a great blog that is easy to follow and very entertaining i might add. It was funny at first because she has a character SH and well those are my exact initials!!!! lol. And shockingly enough we kind of act alike from what I have read(it is crazy I know). So here is the first of the characters...I will add as this goes along so I will fill you in on new people as I have to introduce them.



Country D-Anyone close enough to me will know who this is ,right off top. She knows me more then I will probably ever let anyone else know me. We have been thru hell and high water. But she is the one that holds the key to my heart but yet keeps throwing it in the river. She was my first woman love and still is "That One". Guess what they say is true. It is so hard to let go of those first in your life.I call her country simply because of where she is from. She acts far from it. City girl that has been trapped inside rural life.

Lips-Her description says it all. Lips that will make you want to kiss her ,smack it up flip it rub it down. She has a smile that lights up a room but her attitude will make you step five steps back. She always has someone "new" which always allows for a great story every time you talk to her.

The BFF- this is my first real lesbian friend that I didn't go to school with initially. She is the one that I lean on when I need to talk to someone if I can get a word in in between her drama. Yes she lives Lesbian Drama at it's highest. She is the one known as the "greatest lover I have ever had' or at least that is what the girls say that have dated her lol.

34- She is the one that has mended straight life to gay life. She is the start of the crew as I should say. She knows everyone and everyone knows her. She like BFF like the white chicks. Although 34 is now in the ATL and needless to say can't keep the black girls off of her. And she is liking every min of it to. ATL i think is bringing out this whole side of her that I think needed to come out. Rebellion at it's best is the best way to describe her.

Chatt-Town- this is my best-friend from college. She was the second person I came out to,outside of telling my first that I was in love with her and telling my best-friend from childhood. She is my ride or die. Whatever I want to do with my life she rides with me, for better or for worse. She is my backbone ,the person I can always count on to listen to me and give me her Honest Opinion. I wonder if she even knows I talk about her like this lol.

E-Double- This would be my secret love. The one that got away and is still away. we see each other briefly now but only in passing. But she still plays a role in my life whether she knows it or not.

OK this is a good start for now. These are some of the main players in the past 4 years of my life. Basically I will give the highs and lows of my coming out party. Needless to say I am deep in the abyss as you will of being black and gay. In the small town that I live in( i am originally from Memphis) it is easy to be what you want to be and not get judged. No one really pays attention to you here unless you go to the college or they already know you. Thus my journey begins......

Jill Scott Having First Child

R&B Singer and Actress Jill Scott Is Pregnant
By Lisa Ingrassia
Originally posted Friday January 09, 2009 07:25 PM EST

Jill Scott is pregnant with her first child, the R&B singer and actress revealed to reporters at the Television Critics Association conference in Los Angeles on Friday. Promoting her new HBO series The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, based on the popular novels by Alexander McCall Smith, Scott said she discovered that she was pregnant just before leaving for Botswana where she filmed the show. "The first trimester I spent in Botswana," said the star, who is due April 25. "That was one of the biggest challenges of my life. First trimester! You're sick every morning. It was seven hours time difference, the heat, the bugs, the 14 hour days." Still, the actress, who is engaged to drummer Lil' John Roberts, says she's glad she went through with the plans to film. "My doctors gave me a clean bill of health and said you can do this, so I did it." Scott, 36, is a three-time Grammy Award winner and star of the 2007 Tyler Perry film Why Did I Get Married?

I am happy for Jill Scott. She is one of my fav artist and it is great that her personal life is looking up. I wish her well with the baby and her new boo! And I need another album soon! I hate I missed her in concert but one of my friends was good enough to send me messages to my phone with her singing. It was better than nothing. Thanks E!!!

Lil Wayne debates with Skip Bayless on ESPN's 1st and 10

I didn't think I would ever see rappers really trying to give sports review. Especially mot Lil Wayne. he tried to sound sophisticated as can be. I don't think this is something ESPN should do a lot but I guess once you sell a Milli(no pun intended). It opens doors for you that may not have been open before. I wish he would get off that lean though. Maybe it will help his speech and keep him out of jail.

**PARENTAL ADVISORY** Golden Girl Claims Sex With Lil’ Kim?

i saw this posted on my one of my usual sites allhiphop.com and he had me like whoa....we all know about the exploits of "superhead " and her books about all the people and things she has done in the entertainment industry. i guess this new chick is trying to take over where superhead left off. warning it is not for those who have a weak stomach!!


DJ Golden Girl, a Philadelphia radio personality, is reportedly writing a tell-all book of her exploits in the music game. Read an alleged and explicit excerpt below:

Anyway, there I was, in a position I had never been in, laying in bed with the Queen Bee, ready to eat her p*ssy. We were in some exquisitely designed bedroom, where she was dressed in a thong…period. We were drinking Cristal, and I couldn’t believe I was about to have sex with a chick. I felt a little weird, although I do chix with chix parties, and have a series of chix with chix DVD’s. I have seen it in person at clubs, and have been asked by chicks to have it done, but I have never done it, or had it done to me by a chick.


But all that shit aside, Lil Kim and I were touching, rubbing, and before I knew it, we were playing in each other’s p*ssy with our fingers. Her a*s was so soft, I kept touching and grabbing it. I’d never felt anybody’s a*s as soft as mine, and her t*tties were huge and pretty. Her nipples got hard instantly as I licked all over them. She was rubbing my cl*t and grabbing my a*s.


She pulled me on top of her, and somehow made her cl*t press a button on mine. We were grinding cl*ts, and it felt unbelievably good. I figured she knew what she was doing, cause my p*ssy was dripping wet. We were both moaning, and I didn’t think she could feel my p*ssy juices, because as she slid her fingers between my lips.


When she felt how wet she had gotten me, she got a surge of adrenaline and said, “Oh my God, girl, you’re so wet, let me…” and she leaned up and grabbed my leg to motion me to turn my a*s to her face. I did, and we were in the sixty-nine position, with her on the bottom.


I said, “Let me get a towel to wipe some of the p*ssy juice off my a*s.”


She said, “No, I got you,” and started softly kissing my a*s cheeks.


Her lips were so soft, I felt like I was c*mming already. I was so excited. She rubbed and kissed my a*s, and I rubbed her cl*t, slowly inserting a little bit of my finger in her p*ssy. It was wet and tight. It felt strange, because I was feeling the inside of another woman’s p*ssy walls. I was nervous, and didn’t want to do anything stupid.


As she started letting her tongue tap on my p*ssy lips, I was freaking out. Her tongue was so warm and soft, flickering from the front to the back, then kissing and sucking my cl*t, all in one motion. I stopped with my finger, and opened her legs, to lick the creases of her thighs, while we were still in the sixty-nine position.


I started at her a*s, dripping spit down the crack, and my finger slightly rubbing it with the softest touch. She loved it. I then replaced my finger with my tongue all around her a*shole. I patted and licked, and felt her a*shole tighten up as she moaned louder. I slowly licked around her lips and started eating her p*ssy. I sucked her p*ssy, and licked the cl*t ever so softly. Then I started flicking it with my tongue a little harder and faster. She licked me the same way. I had p*ssy juice down to my ears. Her cl*t was really hard by now, so I knew I was doing it good. I started putting my fingers in her as I ate that p*ssy.


sounds like it would be a good read but can we really believe this is true??I'm sure lil kim will come out with something saying this is false but dang it was descriptive. but anyone that has read any literature on erotica can make something like this...only time will tell if it is false or true.


Update 3-10-08 Kim's people did put out a statement saying that this story was totally bogus(as i figured). She is also thinking about suing the DJ. Golden girl went on to say that it was fictional. When you are writing I think you should take more credibility for what you write. Sometimes you are holding someones life in your hand and it is not right to slander their name.