Directed by Anthony Mandler

Jay-Z brought out the Five Four Delancey and his lil homey #23 for this one. Jay’s jumper looks anemic though.

Behold the trailer for Jay-Z’s much ballyhooed Auto-Tune killer, “D.O.A.” The full video will be premiered at the 2009 BET Awards. In the meantime, if you need something to help you piss off your friends be sure to grab your own “D.O.A.” T-Shirt.

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Jay-Z - “Death of Auto-Tune” [sans Flex's gay ass bomb]
♣ Produced by No I.D. and Kanye West

Jay-Z comes out swinging at robo-voice rappers (well, sorta) on “Death of Auto-Tune (D.O.A.). Oh sure, this will ensure the death of auto-tune all right. If Hov is so concerned about rappers “T-Pain-ing too much,” how come Yeezy, who made an entire album on Auto-Tune, gets a pass and Wayne only gets a jab (”I might send this to Mixtape Weezy”)? Ouch!

I guess we’re supposed to be content with the fact that someone bothered to declare it dead?

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It took DJ Hero to get these two together to perform together again?

The University of Arizona held their extravagant Last Smash Platinum Bash concert last week, with Jay-Z, Third-Eye Blind, and Kelly Clarkson on the bill. The show turned out to be a resounding failure.

The Associated Students of the University of Arizona shelled out an eye-popping $750,000 for Jay-Z’s appearance, $350,000 of which came from their savings. Their original plan was to get Jigga on the bill and automatically sell 30,00 tickets. Ehnnn! Didn’t happen. They ended up selling a measly 6,100 tickets.” Ouch!

When the organizers finally crashed back down to earth, they lowered sales expectation to 17,000. Unfortunately, someone forgot to remind them that the economy is in a f-cking recession, Jay-Z or no Jay-Z.

The Arizona Daily Star says a chunk of the loss will come from an emergency fund. Another $114,000 a year will be deducted from ASUA’s share of profits from the university’s bookstore, its main revenue source.

Sounds like a case of piss poor planning. Who put this thing together? John McCain? Because that would certainly explain the planning FAIL.

[Source: Phoenix Times]

Hooray! Perennial losers New Jersey Nets will be breaking ground with Barclay Center and saying hello to Brooklyn in 2011. Jay-Z helped orchestrate the deal after pledging bottles of Ace of Spades constructed in the shape of Beyonce.

Says Nets’ CEO, Brett Yormark: “It will happen,” Yormark said in an interview for Bloomberg Television’s “For the Record.” “We’ll be there for the ‘11-12 season. We’ve pre-sold 20 percent of our suites. We’ve got eight of our 14 founding partnerships already completely signed. Next week, we’ll announce our ninth.”

Hmmm, Devin Harris doesn’t look too bad next to LeBron James. Just saying.

Jay-Z - “When The Money Goes”
Some things never change. Like Jay-Z being one of the most creative, intelligent, charismatic, and articulate rappers of our time. Or Jay-Z being rich for so long he’s forgotten how it feels to be assed out. This is why even when he attempts to make an anthem for us broke folks he still comes off boastful. Dude, pawn shop is not where broke people go when they need new clothes. That would be Swap-O-Rama-Rama. And poor folks don’t ever feel like crying, they feel like shanking the next guy for his watch and sneakers.

[Props: Low Key]

Jay-Z meets comedian Afffion Crockett, who gets a kick out of impersonating rappers like Jigga. Hey fellas, you want Beyonce back on the market? Have Affion call Bey on the phone and say, “In my humble opinion, your last album was hot garbage.”

Travis Barker - “Jockin’ Jay-Z” Remix
I’m feeling Travis Barker’s remix of “Jockin’ Jay-Z.” I gather that Barker recorded this before that plane crash that claimed 4 lives and left others severely injured.

Jay-Z - “Go Hard (Brooklyn)” (Featuring Santogold)
This ain’t hip-hop, this is black hoodie rap. I gather that “Go Hard” is off the Soundtrack to that crappy-looking Notorious film. It samples Santogold’s “Shove It.”

[Huge props to Legend for sending it over]