In case you were wondering what Charles Grodin thought about Post columnist Phil Mushnick's Jay-Z-Brooklyn Nets musings ("Why the Brooklyn Nets when they can be the New York N------s? The cheerleaders could be the Brooklyn B----hes or Hoes."), today is your lucky day. The actor writes in his Daily News column, "I know Phil Mushnick. He is a friend of mine, and he is the opposite of a bigot. He is a satirist and satire can easily be misunderstood." more ›

Last night, Coldplay revisited their cover of the Beastie Boys' "Fight For Your Right (To Party)" at the Hollywood Bowl—they did it at the 2009 All Points West festival, too, and apparently didn't learn their lesson—to pay tribute to Adam Yauch, the Beastie Boys founder, filmmaker, and humanitarian who died yesterday at age 47. Here are a few other (some better) covers of Beastie Boys songs: more ›

Now that the Barclays Center over at the Atlantic Yards is getting closer to its debut Jay Z concert, developer Bruce Ratner is getting serious about the venue's food. Though he went with Atlanta-based Coke to be the official soda (over hometown sugar water seller Pepsi) he says they want Brooklyn food vendors to feed the hoped for teeming masses. Finally, some of those Brooklyn-friendly jobs the project promised? more ›

Ever since having baby Blue Ivy, Beyonce has been keeping a low-profile, only stepping out publicly after husband Jay-Z's Carnegie Hall performance (the new parents have been eating in Brooklyn, though). But last night, the couple partook in the Linsanity at Madison Square Garden. more ›

The funeral for Whitney Houston is open only to invited guests—who include Aretha Franklin, Kevin Costner, Jay-Z, Beyonce, Oprah Winfrey, and Stevie Wonder so far—but the public will get a chance to observe the services through a livestream. The AP will broadcast the funeral at http://livestream.com/aplive: "It will provide a much-needed connection for fans who have lacked a formal place to eulogize Houston, one of the world's best-selling artists who died in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Saturday at the age of 48." more ›

New parents Beyoncé and Jay-Z haven't yet showed off their daughter, Blue Ivy, to the public (friends say she's "so beautiful"), but they have announced her godparents. Or rather, a source has done it for them. And it's a real "Aha Moment!" more ›

Guess it's time to just admit that it's Jay-Z's world now, and we just live in it. Everything he does is a headline these days. But really, unless you're billionaire investor Warren Buffet, you aren't gaining access to that world. What? That's right, the legendary investing tycoon was throwing up Roc hand-signs at the rapper's 40/40 Club party last night. Really! more ›

Famous hospital travel writer and connoisseur Sean Carter has gone all sensitive now that he has a newborn baby with Beyonce. He won't even use the "B word" anymore! But Jay clearly was his old, stoic self on January 6, a day before Blue Ivy Carter was born, when half of Rocawear's staff got laid off in New York. more ›

This is hardly surprising, because while Lenox Hill Hospital denies they received money from Beyoncé and Jay-Z to create a personalized VIP section for the birth of their daughter, Blue Ivy... those suites certainly weren't built on love alone. The famous couple were the first to utilize the $800/night private suits (what coincidental timing!), and now Radar reports that they made a six figure donation to the hospital prior to the birth. more ›

Today, Baby Blue Ivy Carter turns six days old, and boy what a journey it's been so far! Now that all of the boring paperwork is out of the way—what with Lenox Hill Hospital "investigated" following complaints from non-famouses that Jay-Z and Beyoncé's special treatment prevented them from seeing their non-famous babies—we can delve into the fun stuff. Like the birthing room! more ›

Baby Blue Ivy is just five days old, and she's been in the headlines each of those days and become the youngest person to ever appear on the Billboard charts. So what's next for this little lady? Today, the focus is back on Jay-Z and Beyoncé's Lenox Hill Hospital stay, where Baby Blue arrived last Saturday. more ›

Blue Ivy Carter has left the building. Specifically, baby Blue has departed her private digs at Lenox Hill Hospital to go live with her parents, Jay-Z and Beyoncé, in Tribeca. The little diva, less than a week old, left the hospital in a luxury Mercedes van. So, now what? more ›

FINALLY, the papers are paying attention to the birth of the Most Important Baby Of All Time, or at least since baby Thom Yorke arrived in 1968: Blue Ivy Carter. There's a lot of ink spilled out there today regarding Beyoncé and Jay-Z's three-day old girl, who has already made her musical debut crying on Jay-Z's song to her, which you can listen to below. And now the happy couple has released a statement, presumably from their private birthing center, Lenox Hill Hospital: more ›

This weekend we learned two wildly famous and wealthy people used their power and money for good. Just kidding! Beyoncé and Jay-Z used their fame and fortune to rent out an entire floor of Lenox Hill Hospital, inconveniencing others that also needed access to loved ones and medical attention. The couple were there for the birth of their child, Blue Ivy, and closed off the 4th (VIP pad) and 6th (delivery suite) floors, depending on where Team Carter was at the time. Problem is: they also closed access off to parents who needed to see their own babies in the neonatal intensive-care unit. more ›

This weekend rumors were swirling that Beyoncé had checked in to Lenox Hill Hospital on Friday night, under the name "Ingrid Jackson," with husband Jay-Z by her side. And alas, it turns out the power couple was there for B's planned c-section, which took place sometime last night. So finally, after months of fake bump rumors, the couple has welcomed a baby girl into the world—the same world she will likely take over one day. E! News reports that her name is Blue Ivy Carter, or at least "that's what Jay-Z is telling pals." more ›

Jay-Z has now joined his mentor Russell Simmons in his measured support for higher taxes on rich folk such as himself, telling CNN, "I wouldn’t mind paying more taxes if it went to the things that really mattered. If it went to education, people [in] poverty and if it went to the right things." He continued, “It should be clearly defined … where all the money’s being allocated. Because you can understand paying so much for taxes and then things not improving, you’re like, where’s everything going to?” We await the "Jay-Z for OMB director" campaign with bated breath. more ›

Just what the world needed: Kanye West and Jay-Z's Grammy-nominated Watch the Throne album turned into an indie short featuring bespectacled, young ladies described as "indie" by IFC (who is putting out the short). Enjoy, or hate watch, below: more ›

[Update below] Occupy Wall Street survived attempts by the 1% to co-opt the message, and arguably the movement itself sustained the removal of its original encampment at the hands of the NYPD. But can it survive Miley Cyrus? A new song, "Liberty Walk," was uploaded to Cyrus' YouTube account on November 23, and is "Dedicated to the thousands of people who are standing up for what they believe in." Homeland Security take note: dispersing crowds just got a little easier. more ›

Russell Simmons has been attempting to co-opt the Occupy Wall Street movement for quite some time now, even though not everyone wants him to be there (he has been asked to leave countless times—see below video). Yet he returns to show his face, push his Rush Card debit card, make a few statements to the cameras, and get his photo taken. Recently, he even pat his pal Jay-Z on the back for introducing an "Occupy All Streets" t-shirt to the Rocawear clothing line. Thing is, Rocawear is profiting from the sales, and not giving a dime to the protesters (so far, that fact hasn't changed). Now Billboard magazine has published an interview with Simmons, after tossing him some softballs last week. When asked about the t-shirt, Simmons says: more ›

Last night, GlobalGrind scored an exclusive one-sentence email from Jay-Z in which the rapper denied bowing to the pressure to pull the "Occupy All Streets" T-shirts that Rocawear so shrewdly "borrowed" from the Occupy Wall Street movement. We couldn't find them at the time, but now they've resurfaced on the company's website. They're on back-order though, and won't ship until December 16, just in time for the season of unchecked consumerism. This holiday season, give the gift of hypocrisy! more ›