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Before appearing on Oprah this year, rapper and businessman Jay-Z had been hush-hush about his seven-year relationship with fellow hip hop superstar Beyonce Knowles. Even Jay and B’s nuptials were kept secret from their friends last year.
But now the former drug dealer has become so crazy in love with Beyonce that he is contemplating altering his name from Shawn Corey Carter to Shawn Knowles-Carter to preserve Beyonce’s family name.
Jigga what?

Beyonce’s parents, Mathew and Tina Knowles, had Beyonce and her younger sister Solange, so they don’t have a boy to carry on their name, and Tina recently filed for divorce from her husband of 29 years.
Beyonce already preserves her mother’s maiden name, Beyince, and her and her mother have created the House of Dereon clothing line in honor of her grandmother, Agnes Dereon, who designed clothes for church alter boy, family and friends.

Now Jay-Z is becoming a family man by doing his part to preserve his wife’s heritage. He deserves credit because some guys have so much ego that they expect their wives to drop their maiden name and they balk at their bride hyphenating her maiden name with theirs.
But as hard as Jay-Z tries to portray, he has a soft spot for his wife and has proven that a real man does his best to make his wife happy.
If Jay follows through with his name change, Beyonce’s name would change from Beyonce Giselle Knowles to Beyonce Knowles-Carter.
And by combining their names, there may be some truth to speculation that Jay and B are planning to start a family.

By Teneshia LaFaye
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Jay-Z revealed in the latest issue of Oprah’s O magazine that friends of him and his wife Beyonce felt betrayed when they learned of their private wedding.
I know it’s best to keep friends and family out of your marriage, but I can understand how the friends could feel betrayed.
Imagine if your close friends got married and kept it a secret and you found out by reading it in the paper or watching a TV report.
I can totally relate because my co-worker, who I helped get a job and who I trained and outperformed, was promoted to be my manager, and he never told me even though I rode with him to a company dinner, where his promotion was announced in front of everybody. Plus, our head manager had a chance to tell me a day earlier when we talked about the new manager, but she didn’t and after announcing her decision at dinner, she came over to tell me that I deserve credit for bringing him to the company.
Talk about a slap in the face. But I’ll get over it. I know my friend will look out for my best interests, and I certainly don’t want the responsibility of being a manager, and like my friend said, I’ll still make more money than him because of my sales commissions for being the No. 1 agent in the company.
Still it would have been nice to have a heads up that my friend was going to be my boss before others were told.
So I can understand why friends of Jay-Z and Beyonce feel jilted by not being in the loop about their marriage. At least Mr. and Mrs. Sean Carter could have sworn their friends to secrecy before their nuptials were announced to the world.

By Teneshia LaFaye
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Rap mogul Jay-Z, whose real name is Shawn Carter, never talks publicly about his wife, pop singer Beyonce Knowles.
The couple kept their romance private when they started dating in 2002, they briefly denied their secret wedding in April 2008 at the rapper’s Manhattan penthouse apartment and they refrain from public affection.

But Jay-Z plans to reveal details from his wedding to B and his courtship in a new book. He also will reveal details of his drug dealing days in Brooklyn, and he will discuss his free-style approach to recording in the studio.
Jay-Z’s tell-all book is untitled, but it is set to be released at the same time as his Blueprint III album on Sept. 11.

Jay and B brought in a combined $162 million in 2008 to top Forbes magazine’s list of the richest celebrity couples. They have collaborated on several rap songs through the years, such as “Crazy in Love”, “Deja Vu” and their first duet “03 Bonnie and Clyde”.

By Teneshia LaFaye
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