For the past 12 years, Vanity Fair Magazine has published their list of the top 100 cultural power brokers with their "New Establishment" list. This year the magazine makes room for artists, designers, and journalists.
Interior designer Ilan Waisbod, has accused Jay-Z of reproducing his designs for the 40/40 Club without permission, in a lawsuit filed in New York.
Forbes.com is running a really good article about Steve Stoute and his plans for Carol's Daughter, a Brooklyn-based beauty line founded by
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Frédéric Rouzaud, managing-director of the winery Roederer, the maker of Cristal champagne considers the association of his brand with the hip hop culture to be unwelcome attention.
Jay-Z is reported to have his sites set on building a Las Vegas casino, the New York Daily News reports.
Here at UrbanHustler.com, our tag line reads, “Documenting Success, from The Street, to The Boardroom”. No person better represents this than Mr. Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter, rapper, entrepreneur, CEO, NBA team owner and...
Def Jam CEO Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter and Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gate the world's richest man chatted backstage at Microsoft's big online advertising summit but did not appear on stage together.
Def Jam CEO Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter, world-renowned advertising industry leader Sir Martin Sorrell, Donny Deutsch, chairman of Deutsch Inc. advertising agency and host of "The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch," a nightly talk program on...
Jay-Z's 40/40 Club has signed a deal to open three new 40/40 Club sports lounges in Asia. The new clubs which will be located in Shanghai, China, Tokyo, Japan and Hong Kong will open by the end of 2007.
Allhiphop.com reports that Miami-based Slip-N-Slide Records, home to rappers Trina and Trick Daddy, has inked a multi-million dollar deal with Jay Z's Def Jam.
2005 has been a great year for black business internationally. We made great strides at cracking the class ceiling but the struggle continues. This is a look back at some of the people who had great success over the past 12...
Jay-Z will be shelling out $25 000 after he lost a bet Wednesday night to the NBA's Charlotte Bobcats owner Robert Johnson.
According to reports entrepreneur and Def Jam CEO, Shawn Carter, aka Jay-Z, has decided that he is not quite ready to share his memoirs with the general public.
Black Enterprise magazine today announced "The Hot List: America's Most Powerful Players Under 40" as featured in December's cover feature. The 2005 Hot List roster includes extraordinary professionals, entrepreneurs and moguls...
Rappreneur Jay Z and partners Lyor Cohen, CEO of Warner Music Group and Steve Stoute, CEO Translation Consultation and Brand Imaging is reported to be in talks to purchase The Source magazine.
Steve Stoute, who earlier...
The 40/40 Club in Atlantic City opened it’s doors on October 25, 2005. Construction began on the $4 million, 15,000 square foot 40/40 Club co-owned by rappreneur Jay Z on June 1, 2005 .
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Rappreneur Shawn 'Jay Z' Carter is reported to be in talks with Russian Billionaire Roman Arkadievich Abramovich the 21st richest person in the world according to Forbes Magazine, with a networth of $13 billion. Carter is...
Fortune Magazine's Oct. 17, 2005 Issue has a profile on Def Jams CEO Shawn "Jay Z" Carter. FORTUNE was allowed unique access to his new corporate life over several weeks, as he traveled from New York to Las Vegas to Europe...
Damon Dash has sold his 25 per cent stake in Rocawear label for $25 million. Dash said in a recent interview that Rocaware is no longer reflective of who he is.
"In the past five years, I've learned so much and made so much...
Shawn Carter, CEO of Def Jam Records has been crowned International Man of the Year at the GQ Magazine Awards at London's Royal Opera House.
Carter was in the U.K. to promote Roc-A-Fella's newcomer Teairra Mari and his Rocawear...
