Jay-Z helps U.N. focus on water crisis

[NVMojo]

UNITED NATIONS - Jay-Z boycotted premium champagne Cristal at his clubs after the brand's owner made some remarks he didn't like. Now the rap superstar has a new favorite drink: water.

Jay-Z, president of Def Jam Records, teamed up with the
United Nations and MTV on Wednesday to get children involved in the fight against the worldwide water crisis. He cited statistics that 1.1 billion people live without clean drinking water and 2.6 billion lack proper sanitation.

"I figure that once I stumbled upon that, if the information was out and young people knew that these problems exist while we're having Poland Springs at Cipriani and things like that, that we'll get involved," said the 36-year-old rapper, referring to the high-class restaurant chain.

Jay-Z, whose real name is Shawn Carter, said he had been looking for a way to help people, and when he visited Africa on tour he was struck at how many of the world's poor lacked such a basic necessity.

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[varkam]

1. Props to Jay-Z.

I never really cared for most of his songs (with a few exceptions), but I'm glad to see he's trying to make a worthy issue more visible. Besides, it's always nice to see a rapper break from the mold of guns, drugs, money, and women - which is pretty endemic of most of today's hip-hop.

[NJCher]

2. he's beginning to develop a social consciousness

I think Jay-Z might be a pretty good guy, just judging from how he treats his mother, who is my neighbor. He visits her frequently and it seems he is always doing something nice for her. I've heard he has taken on social issues in his music.

I guess most people know he's engaged to Beyonce (sp?).

I don't know much about stars or hip-hop but do my observations as I drive past the house on my way home.





Cher

[Dead_Parrot]

3. Fogey Alert...

Who the fuck is Jay-Z?

[NorCalDem]

4. You don't know the Jigga Man?

http://www.jayzonline.com/

Google is your friend :D

Now bounce with me...

[Dead_Parrot]

5. Truly sublime...

Yes, this is holy war
I wet y'all all with the holy water
Spray from Heckler-Koch order
Matic auto-static, child cease to exist
like a sabbatical, I throw couple at you, take six!
Spread love, to all of my dead thugs
I pour out a little Louis, to a head above
Yessir, and when I perish, the meek shall inherit the earth
'Til that time, it's on and poppin, CHURCH
Like Don Bishop, the fifth or palm cock either

Ah, yes... reminiscent of the later works of Lermontov.

I wonder what "the fifth or palm cock either" means.