Updating a previous story, you can now watch Jay-Z's recent concert at the Hammerstein Ballroom. At the concert, Diddy came out and performed the "I Get Money" remix with Jay. It starts at 56:00. Like I said, a cool performance. Notice how Diddy says "a lot of records on this money, man!" hehe.
Crain's New York Business.com spoke with Diddy on 360 deals. These are "ventures designed to give them a piece of all the revenues that come an artist's way."
Executives say monetizing and sharing in every aspect of a performer's career--from recording and publishing to movies, merchandising and endorsement deals--could make up for losses in record sales. But critics argue that the strategy is just another way for the majors to take money out of an artist's pocket
"Right now, everyone just says this brand-building concept out of their mouths so easily, claiming it's revolutionizing the industry," he says. "But it takes a certain type of superstar who understands at all times what it takes to be in the middle of a 360 situation. This is not going to solve the labels' problem."
Updating a previous story, a representative for Control Room confirmed that 2:00 PM ET on November 20 is the time that the concert will be available - not at 9:00 PM, as stated on the concert website.
On Tuesday, I posted the clip of Jay-Z and Diddy performing "I Get Money (Remix)" during Jay-Z's stop at Hammerstein Ballroom for his American Gangster tour. I lamented the lack of a DVD.
Though no DVD is on the way, it looks like we'll get to see the whole concert in a high quality video format as MSN Music will be broadcasting it at http://music.msn.com/jayz on November 20. Before going to that link, you should login to MSN first as it attempts to spawn an endless number of login boxes, if you do not.
The time, I am not sure of, as their press release indicates 2:00 PM ET and the site itself says 9:00 PM ET. I've contacted Microsoft PR for clarification and will report back once I know.
Update: The time is 2:00 PM ET.
From the AP:
A former associate of Sean "Diddy" Combs filed a motion Wednesday to prohibit the hip-hop mogul from circulating FBI interrogation records in which an informant appears to link the associate to a shooting of the late rapper Tupac Shakur.
James Sabatino, once a consultant for Combs' Bad Boy Entertainment Inc., claims his former colleague is distributing the FBI reports as part of a smear campaign. Sabatino, 31, is imprisoned in Pennsylvania on fraud charges and sued Combs last month, claiming he is owed $19 million for music by the late Notorious B.I.G., another former client.
Monsters and Critics and People report that Diddy flew 100 of his closest friends to his home in Miami for his birthday party last Saturday. Jay-Z, Pharrell, Stephen Baldwin and Kim Porter were at the event. People has a couple of pictures.
MTV reports that Diddy joined Jay-Z on stage at the final spot on his American Gangster tour, at Harlem's Apollo Theater.
Diddy came out and acted as Jay's hypeman for "Encore."
"Now can I get an encore, do you want more?/ Cookin' raw with the Brooklyn boy/ So for one last time I need y'all to roar," Jay and the crowd chanted while Diddy spun in circles.
"They love you Jigga," Puff said when the song ended.
Watch below. Words can't describe how awesome this is. Let's start selling some DVDs. How many times do I have to say it? I'll buy DVDs of these events. Somebody needs to get together so that they can get my money.
Thanks Ricardo.
HHE reports on Jay-Z's concept at the Hammerstein Ballroom in NYC.
Jay also brought out Diddy for 50 Cent's "I Get Money" remix while Memphis Bleek, Beanie Sigel, Freeway and Young Gunz also made appearances. They performed during a Roc-A-Fella block that included "Roc The Mic," "What We Do," "Can't Stop Won't Stop" and "Ignorant Sh-t."
In an interview today with Charlie Rose, Jay-Z has the following to say about Diddy's production prowess. Watch below for a clip with this quote as well as Jay talking about the creation of the tracks (he said that Diddy actually had about 30 tracks), Biggie and more.
Jay-Z: ... He made the foundation to which all the other producers produced into. Because I would play it for the producers and say, "it has to fit in this, it has to sound like this - sonically, it has to have this sound on it." And, the great thing about Puff, what I really realized is, he's a great producer. I've always known this, but it really brought me back-
Rose: Many people think that's what he does best. He thinks that's what he does best.
Jay-Z: I think that's what he does best. It made me realize that he's not a good producer - he's a great producer. And he's produced "Ready to Die" and "Life After Death" and Mary J. Blige's album, Jodeci's album and, you know, I start getting these tracks back and I'm like, who's doing this? He's a director. He's like, "it's like Motown over there in my studio, I got horn sessions...". I mean, the things that he added after the lyrics was on there - you had to hear the bare tracks. The bare tracks were great tracks, but what he added after it, made it a movie and made it complete.
I don't know what else there is to say.
Via HipHopDX.
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