Beyonce & Jay Z Support Hillary At Friday Cleveland Free Concert

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The price of Jay Z, Beyonce and Hillary's free ticket Friday night was voting. The pass to last night's screaming Cleveland arena performance was available only at the Bureau of Elections voting location. 

The crowd went wild when Beyonce took the stage wearing a wide brimmed black hat, while her dancers sported Hillary's traditional blue pantsuit. 

Then she ran through some of her most empowering hits, including ‘Independent Women’ to ‘Run the World (Girls)'.

Then she did a few songs with her husband – with Clinton’s ‘Stronger Together’ logo behind her.

‘Ohio we are on the doorstep of history,’ said Jay Z after the show. ‘I am here tonight because respect matters. Respect matters to me.’ 

Black Lives Matter: Nina Simone, Beyoncé and The Black Panthers Intersect

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Black Lives Matter: Nina Simone, Beyoncé and The Black Panthers Intersect

Talking about Nina Simone in her 2013 self-produced HBO documentary 'Life Is But A Dream', Beyoncé drew contrast between her public life and the fact that Simone's lived with her demons out of the public space.

“People are brainwashed… When Nina Simone put out music, you loved her voice. That’s what she wanted you to love,” Beyoncé reminds us, while lamenting the ridiculous things people write about her. “You didn’t get brainwashed by her day-to-day life. That’s not your business. It shouldn’t influence the way you listen to the voice and the art, but it does.” Remember the rumor that she used a surrogate mother to carry her daughter, Blue Ivy Carter? Bey called it “stupid.” She explained: “To think that I would be that vain. I respect mothers and women so much. To be able to experience bringing a child into this world, if you’re lucky and fortunate enough to experience that, I would never ever take that for granted.”

It was last week that music lovers were able to draw a new contrast between Beyoncé and Nina Simone, when the superstar took to the stage at Superbowl halftime to perform 'Formation'. I'm sparing the visuals and let you read the lyrics in Bey's sing-along.

Jay Z Buys His Favorite 'Ace of Spades' Champagne Brand

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When you’re a music mogul and your favorite champagne Armand de Brignac just might be available for purchase, what do you do?

Deal, baby, deal.

The French bubbly — which carries the nickname ‘Ace of Spades’ sells for about $300 a bottle.

Jay Z gave Armand de Brignac a big boost in 2006, when he called out ‘Ace of Spaces’ in his 2006 rap ‘Show Me What You Got’.

Champagne sales have been falling with the slow down in the global economy, writes CNBC. Note, the article doesn’t say that expensive champagne sales are falling.

Jay Z and Beyonce are definitely in that blessed 1% of Americans with soaring incomes.

Followup 11/8/13 Beyonce and Jay Z say they will be taking off a year to live in France in hopes of conceiving a second child and enjoying the French lifestyle.  via Daily Mail