Ron ‘Amen-Ra’ Lawrence, remakes the beat that Diddy recently decided to use for “Angels.” If you recall, he was the producer for “Where I’m From” off Jay-Z’s 1997’s In My Lifetime, Vol. 1.

Jay-z and J-Cole perform A Star is Born, live in Greensboro on the Blueprint 3 Tour.

Last night’s BP3 Tour stop at Madison Square Garden was part of the ABSOLUT Concert Series at MSG. Absolut Vodka just released this trailer of their Jay-Z film, documenting the lead up to his concert on 9/11 at the Garden.

They commissioned rock photographer Danny Clinch to capture intimate and behind-the-scene moments with Jay at MSG. The documentary drops on March 22nd at facebook.com/ABSOLUT.

Via NR.

Hova won the 2010 Brit Awards, Best International Male based on “Empire State of Mind”. Here’s the acceptance speach, and after the jump is the song that won him the award, but not via rapswag… Jay-Z himself offers it up.

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“My thing is, what’s the purpose? You said all you had to say. You said you wasn’t gonna say no more until Jay called you. He ain’t call. Everything you said ain’t adding up. It becomes a point, what are you doing it for? Are you doing it to get you a deal? Are you doing it to get you hot, doing it to get you back on the radio? That’s all I wanna know. Anybody knows if you come at Hov, you’re not stopping his movement. C’mon, it’s stupid. We been there before. We seen this movie. I hate to elaborate on it, because it’s like I’m breathing life on a situation that really don’t need no life to it.”

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Beanz cant stay off the Diss game.. Beanz appeared at Freeway & Jake One’s The Stimulus Package release party last night in Philly to spit a couple shots at Jay, Memph… and T.I

Props to Mike for the heads up.

Jay-Z speaks with MTV about his next album. He States that he hasn’t really started yet but has some scraps, a couple ideas, etc.

“I got one crazy record,” he added. “To be honest with you, it’s crazy. I got one and we’ll build from there. Whether it comes out this year or next year, it depends on the music and how it’s coming out. I don’t really have any dates.”

9th Wonder decided to liberate his latest tape on twitter, and here it is!. Tracklist and link after the jump

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