Jay-Z Gets More Money
In a deal announced today, rapper Jay-Z will be selling his Rocawear clothing line to Iconix Brand Group for $204 million cash. The deal could also net the former crack dealer $35 million in Iconix stock if the brand meets certain performance requirements. Iconix Chairman and CEO Neil Cole said:
This is the largest acquisition Iconix has made and Rocawear is a brand that is increasing in market share and has extraordinary potential for growth...This acquisition will be transformative for Iconix in terms of its scale, the diversification it brings to our portfolio of brands as well as having someone as talented as Jay-Z joining our company and the many synergies that could bring."
Iconix is going to be a retail powerhouse because everybody I know wears Rocawear. They always look so fresh at the bus stop when they finally get it off layaway. I just hope Jay-Z will use the financial windfall to help fix inner city communities, preferably not the way he did when he was a drug dealer. Wait, did I say "inner city communities." I meant "his nose." Yikes, they could use him to sniff for bombs.
Beyonce, her velcro bun and her shopping bag holder on a recent shopping trip:
Fun Jay-Z crap: "The youngest of four kids brought up by a single mom, Jay-Z grew up with rap greats like Notorious B.I.G., but had no deal of his own. Instead, he sold crack, moving from city to city. He liked being a leader. "I used to wear a rubber band on my wrist, like a ghetto money clip," he has said. "The little dudes who were working with me had to earn their rubber bands . . . make a certain quota for the week to get the rubber band. If they did something that wasn’t thorough, like lost work or put someone on the team at risk, they got their rubber band popped."
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45 Comments:
she looks thunderlicious
By Anonymous, on 1:27 PM
i wonder if todd was anticipating being called a racist...
By Anonymous, on 1:29 PM
Do they put it on layaway? I thought most people who wear it just spend their welfare money or child support money on it.
By Anonymous, on 1:30 PM
Be careful, Todd. You know how people get when you talk about black celebrities.
By Anonymous, on 1:32 PM
I'm tired of people kissing this good-for-nothing Jay-Z's ass all the damn time.
By Anonymous, on 1:33 PM
Look at that fucking bag- It was in a magazine- said it is from 'House of Dereon'. Those ads posing with her mom for that are creepy. What the fuck is DEREON anyway? It's like a cross between shit at Claire's Boutique in the mall and some arts and crafts projects
from some fuckers in Rehab.
By Anonymous, on 1:35 PM
It's great to see black America living the dream that Martin Luther (the) King set forth.
By Anonymous, on 1:36 PM
He is an UGLY motherfucker. Dayam!
By Anonymous, on 1:42 PM
beyonce looks pretty and normal here. that's a change!
By Anonymous, on 1:46 PM
"got their rubber bands popped" = got a cap in their ass.
Thug.
By Anonymous, on 1:52 PM
I wonder how many hours it takes for Beyonce to put on all that makeup, fake hair, and fake eyelashes before she goes shopping.
By Anonymous, on 1:54 PM
"got their rubber bands popped"
Meaning: I'd fuck them in their ass.
By Anonymous, on 2:12 PM
Anyone who used to make a living selling crack to kids in the ghetto shouldn't be given a penny. It validates all that bullshit they did before they got a rap deal. I don't give a shit if he was a "leader"...he was a guy who ran a crack ring. He's not a role model. He didn't "change his ways", he just doesn't have (I use this word loosely) to sell crack anymore b/c he's so fucking rich. I wonder how much of that money he'll give back to the area where he grew up...probably not a dime. He's actually proud of the fact that he sold drugs. News Flash, asshole, getting kids addicted to drugs isn't exactly an achievement.
Oh and by the way, nice horse hair, Beyonce.
By The Docktator, on 2:24 PM
Hopefully Iconix will "pop" Jay-Z if his stupid clothes don't meet up to their performance standards.
By Anonymous, on 2:29 PM
heh heh heh.... "shopping bag holder" ...heh heh heh.
By Anonymous, on 2:48 PM
He didn't get rich selling crack. Fortunately for him, he decided to give that up. He is a legitimate businessman.
By Anonymous, on 3:06 PM
He's a piece of shit. Instead of selling crack he sells shit that glorifies the gangster and crack dealer lifestyle. Same product different look.
By Anonymous, on 3:13 PM
Only in America....
By Anonymous, on 3:36 PM
whoa, careful posters...if you defend a celebrity who's black you'll be accused of implying that Todd is a racist
By Anonymous, on 3:53 PM
With lips like that, I'm sure he gives good head.
By Anonymous, on 4:45 PM
Jay-Z is very much a philanthopist.
And no I am not using sarcasm.
He is deeply involved with the Robin Hood Foundation. Look it up.
By Anonymous, on 4:47 PM
Has anyone noticed that Bee has a slightly lazy left eye? with all the money she has, why cant she find a good plastic surgeon to fix that shit? And another thing....why is she wearing that bright red lipstick? A little lipgloss would have been enough for this casual look.
By Anonymous, on 4:48 PM
Fuck Jay-Z's ignorant ass. He's not the big businessman he makes himself out to be; he just signs the papers and all the rich white guys he hired to take care of his money do the thinking.
Amazing how America is just WILLING to give money away to the people who shout the loudest about themselves.
By Anonymous, on 5:07 PM
AM I THE ONLY ONE.. that thinks Jay-Z looks like a turtle?
By Anonymous, on 5:32 PM
he's ugly and his clothing will most likely be catered to ghetto people like most black clothing designers are. the only black desinger i shop from is perry ellis period.
By Anonymous, on 6:02 PM
I am so over Beyonshit and her weaves. She must have hundreds of them. Christ...
PS: I am hispanic so don't call me a racist now
By Anonymous, on 6:04 PM
Wouldn't it be funny (and great for society) if everytime one of these celebs bragged about their criminal past, they got locked up for years for their previous crimes? Instead of it making them richer and more popular?
I have a dream......sigh.
By Anonymous, on 6:16 PM
6:04: So if a white person said it would it be racist? I get the impression that from your statement that hispanics are the only people that can say anything that can be taken as rascist.
By Anonymous, on 6:22 PM
he's gerbilicious! and B's thunderthighsalicious!
By Anonymous, on 7:01 PM
He's uglilicious!!!! Can't stand this homely bastard!
By Anonymous, on 8:13 PM
Explain to me why ANYONE finds him attractie. He's plain at best, with a HUGE shnozz. And this is coming from someone from a family of big-nosed people, so if I'm saying his is bad...
By Anonymous, on 8:50 PM
5:07 Hmmm...So he hired a bunch of guys, who happen to be rich, to take care of his money for him. All he has to do is sign and rake in a cool 204 mill.
That sounds like he's runnin shit to me. You might call the being an owner. The "ghetto black people", as you people say, who wear his clothes may call him the HNIC...just so you know.
By Anonymous, on 8:54 PM
Is she shopping with Shawn Kemp??
By Anonymous, on 8:56 PM
Who the hell said he was good looking? He's famous for being a rapper, not for being a supermodel.
His music sucks, anyways. When he started getting famous was when rap started getting more and more retarded.
At least 2pac had some meaningful songs (staring at the world through my rearview, brenda's got a baby, changes, etc.) even though he was a thug, too. I bet he'd be turning in his grave right now if he knew how pathetic rap music is today.
By Anonymous, on 9:06 PM
Ya ya ya Roca wear -baby phat --Sean John what the fuck ever!! Macys now pushes that shit like it is the last clothing on the earth. I used to be able to go Macys and find respectable, quality clothing. Example:Ralph Lauren, guess. Now the polo "section" is in the back & consists of two racks. All of that ghetto shit being shoved down my throat has gotten nauseatingly old.This clothing is ugly, cheap and more expensive because wannabe ghetto pieces of shit are the people who humor the piece shit rappers and buy it all making them even richer. It's nice to see crack dealers getting the last laugh.
By Anonymous, on 9:09 PM
9:09, what's interesting about it is the majority of the people who buy that crap are WHITE kids.
By Anonymous, on 9:29 PM
I work at Marshalls. Yes all the ghetto trash buy 'Rocawear' with their welfare money, and yes, they all put it on layaway.
By Anonymous, on 9:51 PM
@ 8:54: The people who handle his money have more money than him. Don't get it twisted.
By Anonymous, on 10:11 PM
ugly!
By Shangri-la Dee Da, on 12:02 AM
I agree with the poster above that rap has become more laughable/trivial the last few years.
Songs about chains, 'grills', and 'laffy taffy' are real musical gems, eh?
Forget the lyrics and subject matter, who can deny the lack of creativity in the production of the music itself?
Am I the only person who thinks that MANY rap songs today sound like goddamn cell ringtones??
I'm not totally anti-rap. Afterall, I still regularly listen to Outkast's Stankonia album as well as the last two K-Os albums. Then again, Outkast and K-Os are hard to put into the stagnant genre called 'rap'.
Oh, and that dude shopping with Beyonce is too 'handsome' to be Shawn Kemp. Shawn Kemp puts the 'ugh' in ugly.
For sure insecure Jay-Z would never let Shawn Kemp around Beyonce. How many kids does Kemp have by now?? At this point Kemp is able to impregnate women telepathically...lol
By joejoe, on 12:25 AM
*looks at bank account balance*
life isn't fair. i'm gonna go heat up some ramen now.
By Anonymous, on 5:22 AM
I'm all for curves on a woman, but does anyone else think Beyonce is a little too "curvy"...like curves where they shouldn't be perhaps. But I also just hate her and her ugly red lips so maybe I'm just imagining.
By Anonymous, on 6:35 AM
12:25, aside rom Outkast, the only rapper I can think of who has creativity is Busdriver. He sings in different styles like blues, electropop and funky hip-hop, refuses to be put in a social box, and gets a bit silly. No bling, hos and shootings.
And he makes fun of "rapping know-it-alls trying to de-politicize those big business ties." The rest of them are just a bunch of wannabe toughs with marginal talent at best.
6:35, I always get that feeling too -- like there's just TOO MUCH. I mean, Salma Hayek looks good with curves, but they don't look excessive.
9:06, I bet 2pac is spinning like a top at people like Jay-Z. He was a thug, but at least he was genuine and talented.
And maybe I'm a snob or something, but I've never even seen Rocawear.
By Anonymous, on 10:33 AM
Ummm..okay...Nobody who is anybody (or somebody) wears rocawear! Why do you think Joe Camel signed the deal?? Honestly...when is the last time anyone saw him wearing clothes from his own line?? Yeah, I can't think of when either!
And, oh...Jay Z is NOT the best rapper alive-ever-or in any form or fashion!!! So stop claiming so!
By Anonymous, on 12:47 PM
all that roca, sean juan, baby phat trash ends up at tj maxx in the clearance bin anyways.
By Anonymous, on 8:09 AM
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