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Video: Amex Sync Show Presents Jay-Z Live from SxSW (Trailer)

On March 12th Jay-Z and Amex will kick off the Music leg of the annual SxSW festival at Austin City Limits with a special interactive performance that will be streamed live on the internet as well as a digital billboard in the middle of Austin’s party district. Fans will be able to tweet song requests during the concert and unlock a digital concert poster by using special hashtags.

News: Hip Hop Links – 2/28/12

So here’s the deal, there’s always news circulating the net and I’ve decided it would be easier to pile it all together in one post. Capiche? Let’s go.

J. Cole will have his own holiday! On Thurs, March 1st, Cole will be honored in Fayetteville, North Carolina with his own day. Dreamville Weekend follows. Not too shabby, Jermaine. [RR]

XXL released their 2012 Freshman Class list. Have you seen who made the roll call? We posted it just in case you missed it. — [LA Leakers]

The Dream talks about working with Jay-Z: “We’ve Done a Couple Things Already.” No word on if it’s for Hov’s or The Dream’s album but we have something great to look forward too. [miss info]

Kid Cudi vs Universal. Kid Cudi lashed out on twitter because his label only ordered 55k physical copies. Sucks and we’re getting punished too, Cud said that his next album will be a WZRD album and MOTM3 is on hold till 2014. You can still cop WZRD on iTunes. For the full rant, check out — [RR]

Wiz Khalifa hitting $100 million income mark in 2012? The rapper seems hopeful. [HHDX]

Oooooh, btw. If you haven’t heard, Drake and Common kissed and made up. Ok, maybe there wasn’t kissing but smiles were exchanged. [complex]

Note: News will be updated throughout the day.

Video: Jay-Z x Kanye West – Ni**as In Paris (The Theorist Piano Cover)

Spotted some of The Theorist‘s piano covers over at TOW then ended up on his YouTube page and found all these covers of some of my favorite songs. His latest piano cover is of “Ni**as In Paris” but I posted some of my favorite covers from the Canadian musician after the jump.

By the way, to see the rest of the post aka “after the jump” you have to click on the title of the post. For some reason the “read more” button isn’t showing but we’re getting that fixed soon!

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Video: Jay-Z – Glory (Live at Carnegie Hall)

Jay-Z hit the stage on the East Coast for the first of two benefit (United Way and The Shawn Carter Foundation) concerts and his first performance since the birth of his daughter, Blue Ivy Carter. Watch the new father pay tribute to his baby girl live for the first time in the video above. Lots of firsts in the last two sentences.

Bonus: Word on the streets is that Nas and Alicia Keys were Hov’s musical guests tonight. Check the pics out here.

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