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...Enterprises, a diversified hip-hop marketing company, she designs CD covers, creates ads for the Rocawear clothing line and writes marketing plans for the firm's latest films. "They're the brain trust," says CEO Damon Dash, who launched his billion-dollar music, fashion and movie empire with rapper Jay-Z eight years ago (see MUSIC). Chief strategist David Gensler plans to hire four new people over the next few weeks, and the company may soon add spots in London. "I'd really like to find some aggressive M.B.A.s," he says...
Nope—it’s absolutely wonderful. The fact that his subject matter hasn’t changed over nine albums makes it only more impressive that his self-obsession can remain so engaging. Lyrically, Jay has never been stronger, his rhyme schemes weaving and his wit razor sharp. Production, meanwhile, is also excellent. Even the weaker beats simply let Hova annihilate them as he exhibits his mastery of cadence, tone, flow, and inflection—things we’ve been taking for granted because he’s had them down for so long...
...last album, because he’s done the stunt right. There are no guest appearances, no battles—just solemn, celebratory autobiography and anthemic bangers. For that reason, The Black Album is, above all else, elegant. It’s a major achievement for Jay-Z, who has notoriously struggled with focus on previous outings. Mr. Rob may have been right on his intro to Vol. 3, when he said that five, ten years from now, we’re gonna wish there was an American commission. Five, ten years from now, we’re gonna miss...
...Jay Scheib, the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club’s (HRDC) current visiting director, knew that Lorenzaccio had to be a period piece, using dingy Chinese restaurants, pineapple bras and stiletto heels as emblems of the current time period...
...Jay] works trying to find behavioral gestures and then amplifying them in weird ways,” explained Benjamin D. Margo ’04, whose dual roles—Catholic conspirator and president of the HRDC—are sometimes conflated. “It all sounds so stupid—I’m peeing on trash cans and taking off my shirt and lifting weights.” (Margo’s corrupt Cardinal confesses to the Duke’s lover while sitting on a toilet...