In just a few hours, Beyoncé is releasing Black Is King, a full-length visual album based on the music of last year's The Lion King: The Gift, exclusively through Disney Plus. It was written and directed by Beyoncé herself, and it'll reportedly feature appearances from Jay-Z, Kelly Rowland, Lupita Nyong’o, Pharrell Williams, Naomi Campbell, ...

It's always interesting when rappers make their "best rappers of all time" lists. Musical taste is a subjective thing, so these lists can't be wrong. There's always a set of stock answers to the question -- Biggie, Tupac, Jay-Z, Eminem -- and the lists get more interesting when they get further away from those stock…

Jay-Z and Team Roc, the social justice arm of Jay-Z's Roc Nation management company, took out full-page advertisements in The New York Times, The Chicago Tribute, The Philadelphia Enquirer, and other newspapers around the US in dedication to George Floyd, as Rolling Stone reports.

During a press conference on Sunday, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz said that he had recently received a call from Jay-Z about the state's response to the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin.

Team Roc, the social justice arm of Jay-Z's Roc Nation management company, has published an open letter calling for swift justice for Ahmaud Arbery, the 25-year-old man who was shot and killed by two men while jogging in Georgia two months ago. A video appearing to show the shooting surfaced last week, sparking national outrage.