GAMETIME: Jay-Z Shows Off His Custom Yankee Fitted

Yankee apparel co-branded with Jay-Z's embroidered-on logos hit shelves a few weeks ago.  But Jay showed off his own custom version of his Yankee fitted.

Check out pics of Mr. Carter rocking his lyrically lined Yankee cap at last night's game when you read on...

His line from "Empire State of Mind" is lined inside the bib of his Yankee fitted--"I made the Yankee hat more famous than a Yankee can."  Jay kicked it in Alex Rodriguez's VIP seats for the game last night.  And he looked like he had a good time with his fellas:

This Championship replica ring is ridic.

We have 2 guesses on who he's texting...

Nicki Minaj Talks Bisexuality, Celibacy, & Laughing All The Way To The Bank With Complex Mag

Nicki Minaj is this month's COMPLEX magazine cover girl.  And she's dishing up the cream on toning down her sexuality...but still keeping her sexual edge, laughing at her haters, her new album, being the "boss" of her "empire", and having multiple personalities.

Read on for the pics and quotes....

Complex: Everyone has this image of you as a cartoon character with outlandish wigs, but at our shoot today you were much more low-key.
Nicki Minaj: [Laughs.] Every woman is a character—but people need to see I'm a regular human. It's like you wear a pink wig and you're no longer human all of sudden. You're a thing. Like today [the photographer] was like, "Where is that Nicki Minaj smile?" But this shoot doesn't call for the Nicki Minaj smile. You guys wanted me subdued, so I'm gonna give you a different side. I'm not gonna pull a string and be like, "It's Barbie, bitch!"
There's been a lot of speculation about your sexuality in the press. Your verse on Usher's "Lil' Freak" adds to the buzz that you're bisexual.
Nicki Minaj: When I rap, it's just an extension of how I speak, and that's how I talk. If you don't like it, don't listen. I'm also not going to explain something just because I said it in a rap. Take what you want from it. [In the press] I didn't say [I don't like women]. I said I don't have sex with women. I don't have sex with men right now either. If [bisexual is] what they wanna call me, then fine.

So right now Nicki Minaj is celibate?
NM: Yes, and I encourage all my young Barbies to do the same. I just don't have time.
You've said in recent interviews that you want to tone down the sexual content in your music. What prompted that?
NM: On "My Chick Bad," I had to show people that I can spit a verse without sex or talking about how good I look. I'm actually timid when it comes to being overtly sexy, which is weird because in the beginning people thought of me like some freakin' porn star. Guys reference sex all the time in their raps—I can't even think of a record where Wayne doesn't talk about sex—but when a female does it, people start tuning out. Then this gay dude the other day told me, "I say to dudes, ‘Maybe it's time to put this pussy on your sideburns.'" I was crying laughing and I was like, "I can't take this shit out of my act." People live for that shit. [Laughs.] I just have to balance it a little bit.

Where do all your different voices come from?
NM: I have no idea. I think Wayne kind of influenced that. He has always been really carefree when he raps and I was like, "I don't have to stay in one cadence or stay in one tone when I rap—I can just do what I want."
But you've been saying in recent interviews that you might tone down the voices.
NM: Sometimes the shit I say is over people's heads and I feel like I need to dumb it down a bit so people can understand it. I think if I had said a lot of raps in a particular voice, people would go, "Yo, that shit was hard"—but when you change up your voice a little bit, they can't see past that. And they're lookin' at me like, "This bitch is stupid"—and I'm lookin' at them like, "No, bitch, you're stupid." [Laughs.]
So on your album and going forward, you're going to mellow out on the voices?
NM: I definitely made a conscious effort to tone the voices down a little bit.
Did the label or management talk to you about it at all?
NM: Again, I run my empire. Does that answer your question? No one tells me anything unless I ask their opinion. No one can make a decision for you. Not if you're the boss.
How hard has it been not to respond when people take shots?
NM: It's not hard when you're making a lot of money and everything you do is sold out, and people adore you and little kids are crying just to take a picture with you. I'm laughing all the way to the bank, just like Wayne said. Young Money is good.
Speaking of Young Money, did your labelmate Drake tell you he'd be mentioning wanting to marry you on his verse for "Miss Me" before you heard it?
NM: He told me he said something about me on a verse, but I didn't think it would be anything like that. He let me hear it for the first time when we did Jay's show at Madison Square Garden, the day before Wayne had to go to jail—that night he let me hear it on the headphones. But you know what else he told me he wrote for me? The Alicia Keys song "I'm Ready." I happen to love the song. I never told anyone that, I hope he won't get mad that I said that.

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Alrighty then.  I'm dizzy from all this back and forth in different interviews with who she says she is and isn't.  Seems to change as much as her voices.  But hey...to each their own.  She ain't for everybody.  Whatever puts money in your accounts, multi-colored wigs on your head, and asses in concert seats.  Do you boo.

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Ice Cube - She Couldn't Make It On Her Own

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Music video for Ice Cube's "She Couldn't Make It On Her Own"
The video features cameos by Ice Cube’s sons OMG and Doughboy
“I Am The West” in stores September 28, 2010!

T-Pain Shows Off New Ciroc & Conjure Chains! [Pictures]

Faith Evans - Gone Already

Description:

The official video for Faith Evans' "Gone Already" from her Something About Faith album due out October 5th. 

M.I.A. - Story To Be Told

Nicki Minaj Complex Cover Photo Shoot!

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Nicki Minaj covers Complex for October & November 2010 issue
Check out the pictures from the photo shoot here:

 

Tight or Ridiculous? New Dance Burnin In South America!

RICH ASS COUPLE: Jay-Z & Beyonce Nab Guinness Book Of World Records Title

In the rich and powerful couple news of the day, Jay-Z and Beyonce are now in the Guinness Book of World Records thanks to all their change.  Monetary change that is.

Deets on them and who else just got added when you read on...
According to Guinness, "Jay and Beyonce together have earned a combined total of $122 million through June 2009."  This will likely be a permanent occurence every year for a while.  And the couple has officially earned the title for the year’s biggest “Power Couple” in the Guinesses Book of World Records.
Lady Gaga earned a place in the book with the title as Most Searched-For Female, while Michael Jackson earned the Most Searched-For Male title.  Miley Cyrus made it into the book with the Most Charted Teen title.
Work.

Chris Brown Reveals New Album Named After His Tattoo

Chris Brown took over 102.3 The Beat in Austin, Texas.  And he revealed the name of his new album: F.A.M.E.  It was inspired by his recent tattoo he copped this year.



Around the :50 mark, Chris spoke on his new album

, his new singles, and more.  He announced the title of his new album, F.A.M.E.  And it stands for Forgiving All My Enemies.

He had the letters F.A.M.E. tatted on his arm this past July.

Kid Cudi Takes Shots At Wale & Discusses Cocaine Addiction

The Roots drummer ?uestLove is planning on releasing a book and Fabolous is considering penning a book about Twitter. All this plus Kid Cudi takes shots at Wale when you read on...

Kid Cudi is on the cover of the October/November edition of Complex Magazine. The Cleveland rapper gave his thoughts on his addiction to cocaine and made some negative comments towards rapper Wale.

Complex: How heavy did the drug use get?
Kid Cudi:

I started doing cocaine to get through interviews, ’cause people wanted to know a lot about my personal life and I wasn’t prepared for a 60 Minutes interview every time. Doing bumps I was able to get through the day, but then I would smoke weed to calm me down—it was the only way I could get through the day without people noticing I was doing it.

Did you ever feel like you had a problem?
Kid Cudi:

 I never thought it was a problem, but I was definitely high-fiving death a couple of times. It took a lot for me to talk about shit like this on the album. I don’t feel like I need to explain myself to anyone besides the fans. My fans don’t believe shit until they hear me say it. And those are true Kid Cudi fans. I want them to know the story.

…Speaking of Wale, when you hit that fan at your show last December, he came out with a line about it ["Throwin' 'round wallets like the dude that Kid Cudi hit," from "Thank You Freestyle"].
Kid Cudi:

It wasn’t a shot, it’s just a simple-ass rhyme by a simple-ass rapper. You can’t let that shit faze you. That’s one of those raps that just shows the world that you wack. Why would you even use that as a metaphor? Everybody think they Hov. Niggas ain’t got the magic like they think they do; there’s only a couple of wizards in this game. I’m a wizard and I know it.

Are your peers not seeing that?
Kid Cudi: 

The last album, I let people dis me, throw out those jabs in their verses and have their little slick remarks. This time around, I’m not fucking around. I have no time to think about other niggas. These other motherfuckers like feeding off another nigga’s energy, so they mention their name. You hear me talk about niggas? I don’t even talk about Kanye, and that’s my homeboy! They talk about Kanye like they’re bosom buddies with this nigga. Talking about “I be in Hawaii”—man, shut the fuck up, why you got to tell everybody everything? Then people like Wale get mad that ‘Ye ain’t give him no beats—’Ye ain’t give you no beats because we ain’t fucking with your raps. It’s not a conspiracy theory. We don’t fuck with you musically, so we’re not going to provide music for you. The shit is a service, it’s a quality of a certain standard. Niggas are just so thirsty it’s ridiculous. I’ve been eating humble pie forever, and people still call me an asshole. These people don’t know my fucking life—now I’m going to give them something to talk about.

Tell em' why you mad Kid Cudi....