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Jay Z addresses Drake’s art reference criticisms
ay Z has hit out at Drake in a new track. The Roc Nation boss addressed the ‘Hypher’ hitmaker during his verse Jon Jay Electronica’s new song, ‘We Made It’, after the rapper called him “corny” for using art references in his music. Jay Z raps: “Sorry Mrs Drizzy for so much art talk/ Silly me, rappin’ ‘bout that I really bought/ While these rappers rap about guns that they ain’t shot/ And a bunch of other silly thing that they ain’t got.” The reference comes after Drake’s controversial interview with Rolling Stone magazine in February, during which he criticized Jay Z and slated Kanye West’s “questionable” rap lyrics on his ‘Yeezus’ album. He said: “It’s like Hov can’t drop bars these days without at least four art references. I would love to collect [art] at some point, but I think the whole Rap/art world thing is getting kind of corny.” Speaking about ‘Yeezus’, Drake added: “There were some real ques- tionable bars on there.” Itr isn’t the first time Drake has criticized the two rappers, as he admitted he wasn’t on good terms with the stars when he slated Jay Z and Kanye West’s collaborative album ‘Watch The Throne’ on his 2011 track ‘I’m One One’. He admitted: “It was a lack of communication paired with natural competitiveness. But those two are Gods to me.”
Liam Gallagher’s ex to write new book iam Gallagher is “very nervous” about former lover Lisa LMoorish’s autobiography. The former Oasis singer had a fling with the singer, with who he has 15-year-old daugh- ter Molly, just months after he married his first wife Patsy Kensit in 1997, and is reportedly worried about what will be revealed in the book. A source told The Sun newspaper: “Liam is understood to be very nervous about what will come out.” Lisa will write about the experiences of being a groupie in the 1990s, when Liam’s old band Oasis were one the most talked McBusted to support about acts during the Britpop era. The singer-songwriter also has an 11-year-old son, Astile, with Babyshambles singer Pete Doherty. Liam, 41, also has a 14-year-old son, Lennon, with Patsy, who he was married to from 1997 until 2000, and he One Direction on tour split from his second wife Nicole Appleton after it emerged he had fathered a secret child with New York journalist Liza cBusted are to support One Direction on their upcoming stadium tour. The super-group - comprised of Ghorbani. The pair had been married for five years when they MMcFly’s Harry Judd, Tom Fletcher, Danny Jones and Dougie Poynter, as well as Busted’s Matt Willis and split in 2013 and have an 12-year-old son together, Gene. Liam James Bourne - will join the ‘Midnight Memories’ hitmakers this summer for their ‘Where We Are’ world is now dating his former personal assistant, Debbie Gwyther, tour in Paris, France. McBusted wrote on Twitter: “AWESOME NEWS! We’re @onedirection’s special guest 21 Jun and the pair spent the New Year together on a romantic holi- Paris Stade De France. Merci beaucoup (sic) New dad Tom also wrote: “YES we’re @onedirection’s special guests day in Thailand. Meanwhile, New York writer Liza has reported- on 21 June Paris Stade De France. Gonna be trés awesome! (sic)” Niall Horan is close friends with the members of ly filed a £2million lawsuit against Liam, who is yet to have a McFly and has recently been writing new music with the band. Last year, the stars worked together on several DNA test, for child support. tracks for One Direction’s third studio album ‘Midnight Memories’, with one of the songs - ‘Don’t Forget Where You Belong’ - featuring on the record. McBusted aren’t the only acts set to join One Direction - consisting of Niall, Harry Styles, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne and Louis Tomlinson - on tour as they will also be supported by Australian boy band 5 Williams says music Seconds of Summer. The ‘Where We Are’ stadium tour works best without egos begins in Bogota, harrell Williams says the secret to making great music is ditching Colombia, on April your ego. The ‘Happy‘ hitmaker insists a big ego can often make 25 and ends in P people delusional, helping them to believe they did an excellent Miami, Florida, in job when they haven’t, and thinks the best tunes are a result of musicians October. tapping into their “feelings”. He told Red Bulletin magazine: “Is the music legible to people’s interpretation? “It might not be because your ego told you that you killed it. But if you could remove your ego and only use your feeling, that is when the best stuff comes out.” The 40-year-old singer also believes the music industry works “off emotion” but insists success isn’t his “doing” since he can’t control the records people buy. He said: “Our business works off emotion, and it is not really easy to quantify it outside of what it is. It is like saying ‘Well, are you afraid of how the ball is going to react to the ice hokey rink?’ “No, because that is not what it is meant for. The puck is for that world and the ball is for another world. Emotions are just emotions. So when a song works, you should just be thankful, because that is not why you do it. “So any kind of success that I have ever had on a song is not my doing. So you don’t do it for that, because I can’t control that. I do it because I feel like it feels good and it may resonate with other people. So it is not really good to mix the idea of what success is and the purity of why you do something.”
Watson says Harry Potter was tough for directors Dakota Johnson in mma Watson says ‘Harry Potter’ was a “huge burden” for its directors. EThe actress played Hermione Granger in the wizard saga, and she admitted the filmmakers across the series - Chris Columbus, Alfonso Cuaron, Mike Newell and David Yates - all faced a huge amount talks for Black Mass of pressure. She told the Mail on Sunday newspaper’s Event magazine: akota Johnson is in talks to play Johnny Depp’s love “I do know what it takes. “Each of the ‘Harry Potter’ directors looked as interest in ‘Black Mass’. The ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ star if they had aged about 10 years by the time they’d finished. It’s a huge D will play Lindsey Cyr, the girlfriend of Depp’s character burden to carry.” Her experiences working on the eight movies - adapt- Boston crime kingpin-turned-fugitive, Whitey Bulger, and ed from J.K. Rowling’s seven-part book series - means she sympathized mother to his six-year-old son Douglas who dies tragically, in with the task facing ‘Noah’ director Darren Aronofsky on the biblical the film directed by Scott Cooper, according to deadline.com. blockbuster. She said: “Darren doesn’t shave during films, so there was Bulger, who was the leader of the notorious Winter Hill Gang, this kind of dilapidation that happened throughout, where by the end topped the FBI’s list of most wanted criminals before disap- of it he looked like this mad caveman.” Watson - who stars in the film as pearing for a decade. ‘The Great Gatsby’ actor Joel Edgerton Ila - admitted she wasn’t sure about taking on the role until Aronofsky laid had been slated to star opposite Depp as a crooked FBI agent, out his vision for her. She explained: “To be honest, the idea of making a John Connolly, who was tasked with bringing down Bulger film of Noah seemed really cheesy to me - the dove and the rainbow the but aided him in his disappearance. Guy Pearce has been cast two-by-two ... Darren is the lord of darkness and grittiness. “And then he as Bill Bulger, brother of the mobster who was president of the explained it to me as this really interesting post-apocalyptic world - not set in the Massachusetts Senate. Bulger was arrested in California in past, but not set in the future, and not a sandal in sight.” 2011 and is currently serving time in a Massachusetts state prison for second-degree murder. The film was titled after Dick Lehr and Gerald O’Neill’s 2001 New York Times best-seller ‘Black Mass: The True Story of An Unholy Alliance Between the FBI and the Irish Mob’. Lawrence’s character struggle David James Kelly to pen Wolverine 3 ennifer Lawrence “struggled” with Mystique’s darker side. The 23-year-old actress plays the villainous, blue-hued avid James Kelly will pen the next installment of ‘The Wolverine’. Hugh Jmutant shapeshifter in ‘X-Men: Days of Future Past’ and she DJackman will reprise his signature role as the titular character and often contemplated going off-script for the darker scenes. She James Mangold will helm the film, according to deadline.com. Lauren said: “I was struggling back and forth with wanting to get darker Shuler Donner is being lined up to return and produce again, after her work ... There was one scene where I couldn’t get past thinking she’d on 2009’s ‘X-Men Origins: Wolverine’ and 2013’s ‘The Wolverine’. The storyline shoot someone where she doesn’t in the script. We filmed it both for the upcoming project is being kept under wraps, but some believe the ways, but I don’t know which one they’ll use.” The actress also plot could follow on from the character’s antics in the hotly anticipated ‘X- gushed about her time working with director Bryan Singer and Men: Days of Future Past’. Jackman recently said Wolverine is going to have was delighted when she found out he was going to helm the “fun” with Michael Fassbender’s character, Magneto, in the forthcoming project. Quizzed on working with Singer, she told Total Film American superhero film when his alter-ego travels back in time to save the magazine: “It was amazing! There was a tiny fan boy inside of me mutant race. He said: “It’s fair to say we don’t get on that well. I get sent back jumping up and down and screaming when he decided to to the past and he has no idea who I am, but you can imagine Wolverine has direct.” Talking about Singer sharing the experience with fans on a bit of fun with that.” ‘X-Men Origins: Wolverine’, released in 2009, was the Twitter, Lawrence added: “He took pictures of everything. He fourth installment in the X-Men film series, and grossed over $373 million always had his phone out. He was like a 13-year-old girl at a pre- worldwide, while last year’s ‘The Wolverine’made $414.8 million. ‘The miere.” Wolverine 3’ is set for a March 3, 2017, release. —Bang Showbiz