Justin Timberlake was spotted in Los Angeles filming some scenes to Jay Z’s “Holy Grail” music video off his album Magna Carta Holy Grail. The photos show performance shots of the singer, but it’s hard to tell what the actual plot of the video is so far.

The two performers are wrapping up their tour called Legends of the Summer with the last show being in Miami on August 16.  They have performed Holy Grail while touring as well.

The past few weeks, both entertainers have released videos from their platinum selling albums. JT recently dropped the visuals to “Take Back The Night”, which he teased with a promo video earlier last month where he also gave hint about the official release date to the follow up to The 20/20 Experience. Jay dropped his artistic visuals to “Picasso, Baby” in a short film shot by Mark Romanek at Milk Studios in New York. The rapper performed the song for 6 hours straight and featured many celebrity guests such as Wale, Taraji P. Henson, Judd Apatow, and many more.

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Music mogul Jay-Z is known for being very guarded about his private life but he’s giving fans an in depth look into the songs on the upcoming Magna Carta Holy Grail album that comes out July 4. On this particular ad, Jay-Z opens up to legendary producer Rick Rubin about fatherhood and how he’s striving to be a good father because his pops was never there for him. All these things are what lead Jay-Z to create a song called “Jay-Z Blue,” which is an ode to his daughter with wife Beyonce.

“It deals with [the fact that] my pop left when I was young. He didn’t teach me how to be a man nor how to raise a child — or treat a woman,” a somewhat emotional Jay-Z tells Rick Rubin of the track. “The two things I need, I don’t have … and I have a daughter. It’s [about] the paranoia of not being a great dad.”

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Hip-hop mogul Sean “Jay-Z” Carter is well known for his business acumen as well as the great music he puts out. For his latest album Manga Carta Holy Grail Jay-Z teamed up with Samsung to give Galaxy mobile phone users copies of his album, to the tune of 1 million albums. The new album actually comes out July 7th, but it will go out to 1 million Samsung users on July 4.

That technically means Jay-Z already went platinum before he even released the album, but Billboard won’t honor the sales. In a letter posted on Billboard’s website, editorial director Bill Werde said the Samsung downloads won’t count towards the rap star’s album total because the tech company isn’t actually selling the album to Galaxy users. Werde writes: “The passionate and articulate argument by Jay’s team that something was for sale and Samsung bought it … doesn’t mesh with precedent.”

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Some of the biggest celebrities were on hand to watch Obama get inaugurated for his second term in office on MLK day, making for a star studded event that saw politicians and entertainers standing side by side to watch the president take the oath.

Beyonce and her husband Shawn Carter, also know as Jay-Z, drew one of the largest cheers from the crowd when they first walked on the stage, and she went on to perform a chilling rendition of the national anthem. James Taylor started the musical performances off right, playing his guitar while singing “America the Beautiful.” Kelly Clarkson was up next and she performed her own version of “My Country ‘Tis of Thee.”

But it was Beyonce’s performance that stole the show.

Beyonce flexed her golden pipes while singing the national anthem that left the crowd roaring long after she finished, and made a fan in Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas who applauded eagerly after she finished performing. But those weren’t the only stars present.

Katy Perry and John Mayer were both present and they even sat side by side, with Perry in an orange-striped coat and wide hat, and Mayer in dark sunglasses. Singer-songwriter Ke$sha was there, too, among many more stars.

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After a week of Twitter promotional stunts, actor, musician and MySpace backer Justin Timberlake announced plans to release his first new album since 2006.

For the past week fans have been following a Twitter feed to Timberlake’s website only to find a clock ticking down but today the singer made a formal announcement regarding his return to pop music.

“Back in June of last year I quietly started working on what is now, my next journey with that thing I love called MUSIC,” he wrote. “What I came up with is something I couldn’t be more excited about! It is full of inspiration that I grew up listening to and some newfound muses that I’ve discovered along the way.”

The news of the album was paired with the release of a new single called “Suit & Tie featuring Jay Z. The song is now available through iTunes and MySpace. The new album, “The 20/20 Experience” will be released later this year.

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The Grammy Nominations Concert aired last night in Nashville. New comer Frank Ocean, along with hip hop veteran Jay Z, Kanye West, Mumford & Sons, Dan Auberbach of The Black Keys,  and FUN, took the lead with six nominations.

Throughout the night, nominees were announced between performances such as FUN’s “We Are Young” with Janelle Monae. Ne-Yo, Luke Bryan, and Maroon 5 took the stage as well as  Taylor Swift and LL Cool J entertained the crowd with hosting duties at the concert in Nashville. To pay homage to country music, the show took place in the home of the top country artists.

Frank Ocean is nominated for big awards such as Album of the Year and Best New Artist for his work on debut album “Channel Orange”. Earlier this year, Ocean made a bold statement by revealing he was homosexual, a rare event in the hip hop community. Ocean was embraced with open arms, which can be shown through the support of his album and nominations.

The 55th Grammy Awards will air February 10 on CBS in Los Angeles.

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Jay-Z has come a long way from being a poor ghetto kid growing up in the infamous Marcy Projects. Jay-Z now owns several lucrative businesses and is well know everywhere he goes.  Jay-Z even held a $40,000 a plate fundraiser from President Barack Obama at his 40/40 night club in NYC which was the talk of the town for quite some time. Last night MTV News caught up with Jay-Z at his 40/40 nightclub during the launch of NBA 2K13 and asked him if he would ever consider running for office, to which he replied:

“To be honest with you I think a lot of people are serving their own agendas, so they just argue back and forth and they think about their next term,” he said. “And it’s more about themselves than about the people. They’re servicing the people, but we rarely get anything done because they’re going back and forth with whatever they’re doing, so I’m not really into politics.”

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