Jay-z - does any1 still feel impressed/surprised/in awe of this guy's transformation?

[optimusprimeaphia]

Originally Posted by xilegacy

Originally Posted by Dirtylicious

that's what money does....

 

[club29]

Jay-Z is the reason the younger crowd looked into button down shirts in '03-'04

 

[baby juice]

Dude is almost 40 and has money.

If you making MILLIONS.. you not gonna be rockin trash gear.

 

[i fr3sh i]

 

[infamousod]

what the hell is this thing doing back?

 

[theyhatinonme]

Originally Posted by bkzkurse

Anyone get a bobbito garcia vibe from this one?

 

[bg babyglock26]

This is the first pic ive seen where son looks like an actual human being

 

[jhn2007]

say what ya'll want but his transformation includes beyonce.

 

[ballinamillion1]

Damn it must suck to be ugly from day 1, till your last day {|

 

[illionaire]

"Everybody look at you strange, say you changed.. like you worked that hard to staythe same."

 

[he told on me]

wouldnt call it a tranformation just growth. Hes not in his twenties anymore. super rich dude out the hood with one of the baddest chicks in the game supposeto dress like that. I wish i could get a dollar from him with his signature. I bet it will got for a quick hun thousand on ebay.

 

[SC kid]

'Puma is getting back into the NBA sneaker game, and they certainly aren’t treading lightly as they dive all the way back in with some big names attached.

Deandre Ayton and Marvin Bagley III, who could go 1 and 2 in Thursday’s NBA Draft, made their signings with the brand official on Monday morning, with Zhaire Smith (another projected mid-first rounder) alongside. That trio will be Puma’s first NBA signings since Vince Carter in 1998, marking the sneaker and apparel company’s first efforts in the basketball arena in two decades.
While Ayton and Bagley were happy to take Puma’s big offers, they aren’t even close to the biggest names associated with Puma’s return to hoops. Later in the day, it was announced via Complex that Jay-Z was on board as Puma’s “President of Basketball Operations,” adding some serious star power to the brand’s launch.

“We’ve been working with Roc Nation for quite some time. They’ve been great partners to us for several years. We’ve done many different deals with many different ambassadors,” Adam Petrick, Puma’s global director of brand and marketing, told Complex. When Puma approached him about this opportunity, JAY-Z felt it “was something he wanted to be a part of,” according to Petrick.

Hov will have a hand in the players selected to join Puma’s basketball division, as well as assist in the art design and overall concept and direction of the brand.

Adding Jay-Z certainly brings an added air of legitimacy to the enterprise, in case adding two top prospects wasn’t enough. Both prospects noted their desire to collaborate with Rihanna, and now you can add Jay-Z to the group of very famous and popular stars from the world of music that can help the brand attract top basketball talent.

With this announcement coming on the heels of his surprise joint album with his wife Beyoncè, it’s been quite the eventful and profitable week for the legendary rapper and Roc Nation boss

 

[hand2handking]

repped for classic gangster that tape was fire

 

[bostoiah]

Bumped almost 10 years later

 

[nawghtyhare]

Irks me this is a thread

 

[wr]

Jay gotta be 60 by now

 

[AZwildcats]

I still ain't rocking Puma's outside the suede's

 

[HNL HI]

I still ain't rocking Puma's outside the suede's

they got some fire with the tsugi line, excited to see what they do basketball wise.

 

[waitwut]

More impressed at his success compared to his "transformation". he's a 50 year old billionaire what do y'all expect? Him to look like birdman?

 

[calibeebee]

Bumped almost 10 years later

Damn I knew this thread gotta be old when I see one of the 1st replies was Dirty

Fool been MIA for a minute

 

[nawghtyhare]

Damn I knew this thread gotta be old when I see one of the 1st replies was Dirty

Fool been MIA for a minute

Aye remember when u got beat up
U ever get third dudes back

 

[calibeebee]

Aye remember when u got beat up
U ever get third dudes back

The morning after, about 4 of my backwoods friends went over to the dudes house and confronted him with a shotgun (because they got knives and a gun pointed at them that night trying to help me.)

They told me they put a scare in him, nobody was hurt or injured badly, and that's all I cared to know. Never asked any more about it

 

[GTA 809]

I thought Dirty was back.

 

[Master Zik]

What transformation? Snakes can only shed their skin.

/ nawghtyhare

 

[SC kid]

Jay-Z and his Vol. 2… Hard Knock Lifeproducer Timbaland are facing a whopping $2 million lawsuit over alleged copyright infringement on the track “Paper Chase.” According to TMZ, the lawsuit was filed by plaintiff Ernie Hines. Although the 1998 album Vol. 2 is one of Jay-Z’s most popular, Hines claims he only recently heard the song for the first time. The lawsuit, which is also against Roc-A-Fella Records and Sony Music, states Jay-Z and Timbaland used a sample of one of Hines’s soul songs from 1969 without his permission.

The soul track in question is “Help Me Put Out the Flame (In My Heart).” Hines says he never gave permission for its use and was never given any money.


Although it seems unlikely that he didn’t hear Jay-Z’s song until 20 years later, Hines is 81-years-old and says he doesn’t listen to rap music. The credits on the track “Paper Chase” do explicitly state that “Help Me Put Out the Flame (In My Heart)” was used as a sample, which doesn’t particularly help Jay-Z’s case. Hines claims that he’s entitled to a large sum of money because the song has been played on many platforms, which explains why the lawsuit is listed for over $2 million.