Watch the Throne

Syl Johnson @ the Bell House in June (BKLYN) (more by Jacob Blickenstaff) TMZ reports that Chicago soul singer Syl Johnson, who sued Kanye West and Jay-Z in 2011 over the improper use of his song “Different Strokes” in the Watch the Throne track “The Joy,” has now reached an out-of-court settlement with the pair of rappers…

Aziz Ansari booked two last minute Saturday night shows at the Bell House to test out material for a new album he hopes to release next year…

Jay-Z, who is in the middle of his Watch the Throne tour> with Kanye West, announced via a press conference (video below) that he will perform at NYC’s Carnegie Hall on February 6 and 7 to benefit the United Way of New York City to help expand the Shawn Carter Scholarship Foundation, and that tickets will be sold privately on December 12 with a limited amount of public tickets going on sale January 30 at 11 AM…

Kanye West & Jay-Z @ United Center on 12/01/2011 (photo by Andrew Morgan) Kanye West & Jay-Z aka The Throne played their second of two Chicago shows on Thursday night (12/1), at the United Center…

Jay-Z & Kanye West @ the Izod Center in NJ (cohanlon64) Kanye West & Jay-Z aka The Throne played their first of two shows at the Izod Center in NJ last night (11/5), and they do it again in the same location tonight, and then two nights in a row at MSG…

Kanye prepares to meet the recently carbonite-d Han Solo in Cloud City (more by Bao Nguyen) Jay-Z & Kanye West have expanded their previously discussed (and rescheduled) tour together to include shows in LA, Chicago, Mohegan Sun in Connecticut, and Madison Square Garden…

First, Kanye West & Jay-Z announced a tour. Then it was partially re-routed, which knocked down the two Chicago dates to one. Now the entire tour has been set right and we’ve got our two dates back…

Hopefully you acted quick yesterday because Frank Ocean‘s Bowery Ballroom show is now sold out. The show, one of six now-announced, popped up so quickly that Frank himself didn’t even know it was happening, as he explains in a video he has posted to his Tumblr…

I caught Kanye West‘s 2+ hour headlining set at the Way Out West Festival in Gothenburg, Sweden on Saturday night, one night after I saw Prince play a 2+ hour set on the same stage, surprise cameo by Kanye included (Prince did not return the favor)…