NEW YORK (AP) — Cardi B and Travis Scott are heading to the City of Brotherly Love to headline Jay-Z‘s annual Made in America festival. Live Nation and Roc Nation announced Tuesday that the festival will return to Philadelphia’s Benjamin Franklin Parkway on Aug. 31-Sept. 1 for Labor Day weekend. Other performers include Juice WRLD, […]
Roc Nation is doing major things. The philanthropic arm of Jay-Z’s Roc Nation label rallied behind <strong.Jabari Talbot, the sixth grade boy who was arrested last month after he refused to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance at his school in Lakeland, Florida. The student got into an exchange with a substitute teacher and according […]
Jay-Z (born Shawn Carter) has sued to halt his private arbitration with a clothing company over the Roc Nation logo, saying he needs to see more people of color on the list of potential arbitrators, TMZ reports. “The AAA’s lack of African-American arbitrators came as a surprise to [Carter], in part because of AAA’s advertising touting its diversity,” the rapper says […]
Jay-Z has filed new paperwork for a venture firm called Marcy Venture Partners, named for his childhood home in Marcey Houses in Brooklyn, New York. Silicon Valley VC Larry Marcus, known for his stakes in SoundHound and Pandora, will partner with Jay and his longtime business partner Jay Brown, president of Jay-Z’s entertainment group Roc Nation, Business […]
Views from the Roc Nation Grammy brunch scored to “Roc Boys” — We in the house!
Jay-Z was spotted cheesing next to his new Roc Nation Sports signee at a Bel-Air Mansion Wednesday, January 3, 2018. According to Sports Illustrated, Saquon Barkley is known as the best wide receiver in college football and at the top of the 2018 NFL Draft pick. The Penn State football player is known for running 1,271 […]
Jay-Z’s Roc Nation is fighting back in a lawsuit over its special edition baseball caps. Iconix Brand Group sued Roc Nation, Shawn Carter (aka Jay-Z), New Era, Major League Baseball Properties and others in May, claiming in 2007 it paid $204 million for certain Roc Nation intellectual property and a specialty line of hats undermines […]
Three weeks after signing former rap rival Fat Joe to Roc Nation, Jay Z has brought another former nemesis into the family. Dipset rapper Jim Jones has signed a management deal with Roc Nation, a source confirmed to Billboard. Under the pact, Roc will handle Jones’ music, fashion, acting and other ventures. The Harlem artist […]
Yo Gotti took to Instagram today (Dec 15) to announce his new record deal with Jay Z’s Roc Nation. https://www.instagram.com/p/BOC5BMxjBKV/?taken-by=yogottikom “CMG x ROC NATION#ItsOfficial,” he wrote in a caption with an Instagram pic of him and Jay Z. Gotti comes to Roc Nation having scored a No. 1 spot on the Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Chart with […]
Jay Z’s Roc Nation label is among a large group of investors that have thrown money at a Paris-based audio hardware startup – all in the name of superior sound. The company Devialet has raised a total of $106 million in funding toward its nearly decade-long effort to improve digital sound quality, reports Variety. Joining […]
Throw your Roc signs in the air.
ATLANTA (AP) — Rapper T.I. is partnering with two of Jay Z‘s companies. T.I. announced Monday night during a private pop-up concert in Atlanta that the entertainment company Roc Nation will distribute his 10th album “Dime Trap” and he’ll be a part owner of the Tidal streaming service. The concert was streamed live on Tidal. […]
