Sunday, November 30, 2014

MADONNA AND VERSACE FOR THE FOURTH TIME




According to MFF , the advertising campaign for spring / summer 2015 Versace will be made by Madonna .

The shots should be a work of Mert & Marcus , the duo composed by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott , and will be unveiled in the coming next weeks .

Versace , requested about the rumors , it is entrenched in a strict “No comment .”



The new campaign with the Madonna would be the fourth played by her for the fashion house ; in the past the singer was “the face” of Versace for:
– Spring -summer 1995 directed by Steven Meisel
– the autumn – winter 1995 Atelier Versace by Mario Testino and for
– the ready to wear autumn / winter 2005, by Mario Testino once again

Malawi names Madona as goodwill ambassador for child welfare




Malawi President Peter Mutharika on Friday appointed an American pop singer Madonna as the country’s Goodwill Ambassador for Child Welfare. According to a brief statement from the Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC) available to APA, the president’s appointment is with immediate effect.

“It has pleased the president to appoint Madonna due to her passion for caring children in Malawi,” it said.

The appointment follows Madonna’s week-long visit to the Southern Africa country to continue her charity work especially caring for children.

While in the country, the singer has pledged to construct the state of the art Paediatric Surgery and Intensive Unit at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital.

Saturday, November 29, 2014

MADONNA AND PETER MUTHARIKA




Malawian President Prof. Peter Mutharika has appointed US pop diva Madonna as Malawi Goodwill Ambassador for child welfare, Nyasa Times learnt on Friday.
It was confirmed by government chief secretary George Mkondiwa who said the appointment by President Mutharika to the ‘Material Girl’ singer was “with immediate effect.”

President Mutharika met Madonna with her Malawi-born children Mercy and David on Friday at Kamuzu Palace in Lilongwe which was symbolic who had a public falling-out with former president Joyce Banda.

“Thank you for welcoming me here. I was a big fan of your brother. He was very kind to us,” Madonna said of Mutharika’s older brother Bingu wa Mutharika., who was president until he died in 2012.

The Malawi Head of State thanked the pop star for bringing back David and Mercy to their birth country.

“My government has always been grateful for the passion Madonna has for this country,” said the President.
Mutharika said the singer’s passion was directed “especially towards addressing poverty and hardships endured by Malawi’s orphans and vulnerable children through her charity Raising Malawi”.

He thanked Madonna for agreeing to fund the construction of a new state of the art Paediatric Surgery and Intensive Care Unit in the country

“I ask you to continue your work in improving education in this country,” said Mutharika.

“You must also encourage David and Mercy to work hard in their education,” he added.

Mutharika said during their discussion, Madonna displayed “much commitment in helping to build more classrooms in schools across Malawi.”

The Malawi leader described himself as “a fan of her music”.

Madonna is currently visiting Malawi, where she has been working since 2006 with her nonprofit organisation, Raising Malawi.

Madonna has since called “Malawi is a country”.

It was Madonna’s first visit in more than a year after she was stripped of her VIP status by former president Joyce Banda amid controversy over the cancellation of her plans for an academy for girls.

The academy was mired in allegations of mismanagement and the project was replaced by plans to build schools in order to reach more children.

Friday, November 28, 2014

5 THINGS WE LOVE ABOUT “REBEL HEART” CLIP

On Thursday, Madonna fans were given the first taste of the material (reference!) from her forthcoming 13th album, when a 43-second clip of ‘Rebel Heart’ leaked online.

True, it’s in demo form, and some of it is so grainy that it’s basically inaudible, but we’re unabashed Madonna fans here, and this has got us pretty excited to hear the rest of the album. Here are five reasons why…









1. It doesn’t sound like everything else Avicii released this year
When we found out Avicii was on board for the new Madonna album, we don’t mind admitting it made us feel a little uneasy, and not just because she proved herself completely unable to spell his name on Instagram.

One of the biggest criticisms Madonna has faced in the latter half of her career is that she’s no longer a trendsetter, and has become a total hit-chaser instead. While we don’t agree (at least not completely), the news of Avicii co-producing songs gave us harrowing images of Madonna recording ‘Wake Me Up!’ 2.0 rather than something a bit more befitting the Queen of Pop.

Thankfully, from what we can hear of ‘Rebel Heart’ it’s taken the best parts of Avicii’s sound and blended them with Madonna, rather than giving us an ear-assaulting ‘Avicii feat. Madonna’ number about “putting your drinks up” and “getting down on the floor”.

2. The lyrics are actually halfway decent
And speaking of the fact she’s apparently ditched the dance floor, at least on this track, we think it’s really interesting that rather than a club banger, she’s choosing to launch her album (assuming her Instagram hints are right, and ‘Rebel Heart’ will be the first single) with such an introverted track.

After ‘Girl Gone Wild’ essentially went down like a cup of cold sick, it’s good to hear that Madonna is experimenting with more introverted lyrics, lamenting on her past mistakes.

She sings: “I spent some time as a narcissist/Hearing the others say ‘Look at you, look at you!’/Trying to be so provocative/I said ‘Oh yeah, that was me’/All the things I did just to be seen.”
Because nothing says “I’m over my narcissistic stage” quite like devoting an entire song… to yourself. Nice one.

3. “As a narrrr-cicist”
We’re not quite sure why Midwestern Madonna, who has taken to speaking in a bizarre British accent in recent times, is now pronouncing words like a Southern belle, but whatever her reasons, we love it. We’re guessing that’s Miley Cyrus’s influence.

4. Guitars
Now, we know that when Madonna whips her guitar out during a show, audible groans descend on the stadium, but actually some of her best songs have had guitar sounds, like ‘Don’t Tell Me’ or ‘Miles Away’ (if you’ve not heard the latter then we recommend you take M’s advice and “look it up”).

The guitars heard on the verse really do give the song a more sincere and genuine sound (let’s face it, Madonna isn’t always known for her sincerity, is she?) and mean it’s a lot easier to actually take in what she’s singing about, before the chorus crashes in with its echoing backing vocals and swirling beats.

5. No references to either “waiting” or “hesitating”
We have only heard one verse, though.



Source : HuffingtonPost

Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Madonna among the most significant Americans of all time.




A special issue of Smithsonian magazine selected Madonna among the 100 most significant Americans of all time.

Steven Skiena and Charles B. Ward (Skiena is the Distinguished Teaching Professor of Computer Science at Stony Brook University and a co-founder of the social-analytics company General Sentiment. Ward is an engineer at Google, specializing in ranking methodologies.) rank people according to their historical significance, which they define as “the result of social and cultural forces acting on the mass of an individual’s achievement.” Their rankings account not only for what individuals have done, but also for how well others remember and value them for it.



Here’s the Pop Icons list:

Mark Twain
Elvis Presley
Madonna
Bob Dylan
Michael Jackson
Charlie Chaplin
Jimi Hendrix
Marilyn Monroe
Frank Sinatra
Louis Armstrong
Mary Pickford

There’s only one Queen and that’s Madonna!

Wednesday, November 19, 2014

MADONNA MOVIE “ADE’” : A LOVE STORY’ FINDS ITS WRITER




Dianne Houston (Take the Lead) has signed on to adapt Rebecca Walker’s memoir for the big screen, marking Madonna’s next directing project.

The film centers on a 19-year-old American student raised in a Christian and Jewish home who travels to Africa and falls in love with a young Muslim man on an island off the coast of Kenya. Their hastily made plans to marry, however, get blown away by cultural and political forces. Walker, who also hails from a Christian-Jewish home, is the daughter of The Color Purple author Alice Walker.

Bruce Cohen, Jessica Leventhal and Walker are producing. CAA, which reps Madonna, will be taking the project out to financiers in the coming weeks.

Adé marks Madonna’s follow up to the period romance W.E., which was released by The Weinstein Company in 2011. The book was published in 2013 by Amazon’s Little A imprint.

Houston, who has an untitled Missy Elliott project in the works, is repped by Kaplan-Stahler Agency.

Source : TheHollywoodReporter

Tuesday, November 18, 2014

JEAN PAUL GAULTIER : THERE IS NOBODY LIKE MADONNA




This is the 10th stop for The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk, which he flew in to launch. But, despite the repetition that comes with a travelling exhibition, Gaultier is excitable, as if this is the first time, because fashion – even that which he creates – has a way of drawing attention to new details every time you view it.

“I noticed some tulle in a dress I forgot I had created,” he says, pointing to a gown in the yonder.

“The way the light draws your attention to certain pieces reminds you of things you once forgot. I have been designing for 38 years so it’s easy to forget every intricate detail to every dress.”

His beautiful French accent, wave of silver hair and childlike smile draw attention to the first corset dress he designed in the early ’80s. It is in the boudoir part of the exhibition’s themed rooms. This early dress is where Gaultier’s now famous cone-bra concept began, before the look was made famous by Madonna on her Blond Ambition tour. As a young boy, Gaultier drew cone-like impressions on his teddy bear called Nana – she is also featured behind glass.

“There is nobody like Madonna,” he says. “She directs herself, is talented, tough and interesting. She inspires women and men to follow her. She rules her own world.”

The relationship between the designer and his muse drew much interest and Gaultier admits he was always attracted to Madonna’s enigmatic presence. He always attracted to Madonna’s enigmatic energy. He says he first saw her on television singing Like A Virgin and was gobsmacked by her mix of sexy moves and religious connotations.

“I proposed to her three times, but she refused me every time,” he says, revealing something he’s kept under his hat for decades. But he then adds, “People change, and we don’t speak much anymore.”

Source : TheWeeklyReview

Sunday, November 16, 2014

Madonna Songs Help Kindergarten Students Learn The Alphabet

Kindergarten teachers Arturo Avina and Katey Bolanos, along with their classroom of child prodigies from the Olympic Primary Center in Los Angeles, have taken the alphabet to a whole new level by setting it to an all-Madonna soundtrack.

“In a nutshell, my colleague and I had our kindergarten students reinvent the alphabet by filming 26 mini-music videos set to 26 different Madonna songs,” Avina tells Queerty. “Who knew Madonna songs could teach the alphabet, right?”

Mr. Avina and his voguing kindergarteners pulled out all the stops for this epic, 12-minute video. Costumes. Masks. Lights. Elaborate sets. Dance moves. You name it. And the results are truly Madonnalicious.

Saturday, November 15, 2014

NEW UNOFFICIAL BOOK : “MADONNA – AMBITION . MUSIC .STYLE”




This November is the 30 anniversary of the release of Madonna’s second album, Like a Virgin. Thirty years – digest that for a moment. If you’re shrugging and asking “What’s to digest?”, you’re probably under 30 and have never known a world without Madonna – you don’t know how different life was for young women before she became a lightning rod for debate on Western female sexuality, and changed the way women view sex, love and ambition.

If her only achievement had been to expand what was considered possible for women in pop music, she still would have been remarkable. Her influence is felt so far beyond pop, however, that she even inspired a strand of academia known as Madonna Studies, which examined her effect on sexuality and feminism. She’s sold 300 million records – more than any other female singer – and may be the only pop star to have generated a new word, “wannabe” – coined in the ’80s, when the aspirations of every teenage girl were summed up by the phrase “I wannabe Madonna”. Though not a conventionally gifted singer, she’s pushed through every barrier that stood between her and success, showing what can be accomplished by unyielding determination and a gift for being one step ahead of the zeitgeist. During her golden years – 1983 – 89, say – she was the zeitgeist.

Around 10 years ago, she was asked by an interviewer how she thought she was seen by the public. “I guess I’m known for being disciplined,” she replied, but she could also have said “controlling”, “independent” and “tough” – traits female singers weren’t supposed to possess, at least not openly, when she started out. It’s now routine for women musicians to call the shots in their careers – or to claim they do – but when Like a Virgin appeared, her insistence on making her own decisions was unique.

It was the album that made her commercially and culturally unstoppable. The cover photo of Madonna acting out the virgin/whore dichotomy by wearing a wedding dress and a belt that spelled out “Boy Toy” was only the start. The album’s title track – which spent six weeks at the top of the American chart – went where no pop single had gone before, equating the experience of falling in love to being sexually untouched. No other female singer had ever shoehorned the subject virginity into a pop song so bluntly, or made it clear that no matter what you were – virgin or sexually experienced – it was absolutely fine.

One of the album’s other massive hits, Material Girl, was about her being motivated by money rather than love (which greatly riled middle american parents, as did almost everything about her). The song was a typical mix of bluntness and coquettish sweetness – boys were okay, the song said, but the one she really wanted was “the boy with the cold hard cash.”

From the start, she knew exactly what buttons to push to be the centre of outraged attention. While writing a new biography of her, Madonna: Ambition. Music. Style, I was struck by the rage she incited in the ’80s: the religious right hated her for saying she found crucifixes sexy because there was a naked man on them; feminists were angered by the Boy Toy belt and others were concerned by her blithe habit of cultural appropriation.

She also lost an endorsement deal with Pepsi by dancing in front of burning crosses and kissing a black Jesus in the video for Like a Prayer. At times, her main occupation seemed to be breaking taboos – “If you want to be a whore, it’s your fucking right to be so” was a typical edict, one of many that encouraged women to celebrate and control their sexuality.

Her own celebration of her unquenchable appetites peaked with the 1992 book Sex, which featured explicit photos of her and male and female partners. To her undoubted delight, many bookshops refused to stock it. “Is it degrading to women? Well, sure, and to men, too,” said the New York Times. Naturally, that didn’t stop it selling 1.5 million copies.

Thirty years later, she’s not going gentle into that good night.


Monday, November 10, 2014

Vogue.com: Madonna one of 12 women who 'redefine age-appropriate style'.

12 Stylish Women Who Are Redefining the Notion of Age-Appropriate Dressing: Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, Madonna, and More

There are certain women whose fashion choices transcend the very notion of age-appropriate dressing, those for whom age is nothing but a number. Starting with the classic elegance of the Olsen twins and the quirky grandma stylings of Tavi Gevinson straight through to the eternally youthful exuberance of designer Diane von Furstenberg,few exemplify that idea with as much flair as these twelve.




Madonna
The singer and actress has conquered everything she’s put her mind to in her 55 years and doesn’t seem be giving up her fighting spirit. Whether it’s vogueing in cone bras or rocking ten-gallon hats, Madonna is constantly changing her look (not to mention her accent) based on mood. Her latest fashion triumph? The Givenchy by Riccardo Tisci look she sported to the 2013 Met Gala sans trousers.

Thursday, November 6, 2014

GALLERY : MADONNA AT THE “INNOVATOR OF THE YEAR” AWARDS IN NEW YORK




She is known to the pop world as the original Material Girl.



And Madonna certainly didn’t disappoint as she arrived at WSJ. Magazine’s Innovator Of The Year Awards at the Museum Of Modern Art in New York City on Wednesday.
She looked fabulous in an ornate ruffled black blouse teamed with black elbow-length gloves, midi-skirt and rather clashing light brown shoes.









With her hair in loose blonde curls, she was on hand to present street dancer Charles ‘Lil Buck’ Riley with the award in the performing arts category.

Wednesday, November 5, 2014

LIKE A PRAYER REMAINS A PROVOCATIVE , SUBSTANTIAL POP RECORD

In We’re No. 1, The A.V. Club examines an album that went to No. 1 on the Billboard charts to get to the heart of what it means to be popular in pop music, and how that concept has changed over the years. In this installment, we cover Madonna’s Like A Prayer, which went to No. 1 on April 22, 1989, where it stayed for six weeks.



As 1989 dawned, it seemed like business as usual for Madonna. Her movie career continued to chug along: She was in throwback starlet mode in the forgotten Bloodhounds Of Broadway and gearing up to play the coquettish caricature Breathless Mahoney in Dick Tracy. Meanwhile, her personal life was attention-grabbing tabloid bait. Her tumultuous marriage to Sean Penn finally ended in divorce and she was making Pepsi gunshy about their endorsement deal, because people mistook the edgy “Like A Prayer” video—which featured burning crosses, among other things—for part of its ad campaign. (In reality, the Pepsi clip’s main emotional tug was rather innocuous black-and-white footage of Madonna as a beatific child.)

All of this turmoil overshadowed the fact that as a musician and songwriter, Madonna was looking to deviate from the formula that made her famous. For 1989’s Like A Prayer, that meant a serious musical upgrade from popcorn-flick dance-pop fluff and faux-retro Top 40 cuteness. Working again with Stephen Bray and Patrick Leonard (who had helped her take baby steps toward maturity on 1986’s True Blue, including the trembling ballad “Live To Tell” and the strident hit “Papa Don’t Preach”), Madonna debuted a more sophisticated approach. “In the past, my records tended to be a reflection of current influences,” she told Rolling Stone. “This album is more about past musical influences. The songs ‘Keep It Together’ and ‘Express Yourself,’ for instance, are sort of my tributes to Sly & The Family Stone. ‘Oh Father’ is my tribute to Simon & Garfunkel, whom I loved.”

Despite her assertions, Like A Prayer was Madonna’s most contemporary-sounding record to date—from the stellar Prince collaboration “Love Song” (a slinky, slow seduction with plenty of Purple One falsetto) to the painfully 1989 “Keep It Together,” a fleet-footed funk-pop number with multi-tracked vocals all over the chorus. Yet, the album also boasted some energetic imperfections—she worked with live musicians and declined to polish many of the vocal tracks—and thoughtful arrangements that created complexity. Gospel choirs and stern organ cushion the title track, while “Till Death Do Us Part” veers between ominous spoken-word choruses, a bluesy guitar bridge, and bustling synthpop verses that resemble Talking Heads’ hyperkinetic rhythms. “Dear Jessie,” meanwhile, is a mincing, string-dusted minuet with latticed harmonies, and the waltzing “Oh Father” blooms with syrupy orchestras. Especially on the latter song, Madonna pushed herself vocally, becoming more comfortable connecting to (and conveying) the emotional content of the lyrics. Even the record’s more universal songs—the girl-group-glossy “Cherish” and the horn-bolstered “Express Yourself,” a bold-and-underlined female empowerment anthem—sound like the work of a woman more confident in her skin.

All of this pointed to Madonna establishing herself a serious artist (emphasis on the “art”) who had significant things to say. Lyrically, Like A Prayer certainly felt weightier. In the case of “Till Death Do Us Part,” she dealt with violent power dynamics and their aftermath; it’s “about a destructive relationship that is powerful and painful,” she told Rolling Stone. “In this song, however, it’s a cycle that you can’t get out of until you die. It’s futile. I wanted the song to be very shocking, and I think it was. It’s about a dysfunctional relationship, a sadomasochistic relationship that can’t end.” But instead of continuing to rely on sex for controversy, she staked her reputation on something much more meaningful and personal: religion.

The title track conflates a higher being with a lover, adding sexual undertones to the cries of faith, while “Oh Father” and “Express Yourself” similarly hint at religious imagery. “Spanish Eyes” is skeptical about God’s existence (“And if there is a Christ, he’ll come tonight / To pray for Spanish eyes”), and “Act Of Contrition” takes a facetious look at repentance. Madonna juxtaposes sentiments from the Catholic prayer with sizzling Prince guitar, “Like A Prayer” played backward, and a bizarre non-sequitur that skewers high-maintenance divas: “I have a reservation! / What you do you mean it’s not in the computer?” The effect is dryly funny. She toyed with religion, its iconography and its tenets—which was both radical and taboo—but in questioning, not sacrilegious, ways. “I don’t make fun of Catholicism,” she told Vogue. “I deeply respect Catholicism—its mystery and fear and oppressiveness, its passion and its discipline and its obsession with guilt.”

Certainly Madonna was a savvy marketer, and knew that pushing her art in this direction would garner attention. Yet, Like A Prayer wasn’t cheap provocation. While approaching religion—in addition to sex and glamour, or love and loss, or her family—Madonna did so from an insightful, adult perspective. “Oh Father” captures the relationship shift that happens as a daughter grows up—but while the song starts off taking a slightly defiant pose (“You can’t hurt me now / I got away from you, I never thought I would”), she ended up in an empathetic place: “Oh Father, you never wanted to live that way / You never wanted to hurt me.” The lovely “Promise To Try” honors the memory of her mother, who died when she was young; her absence looms large in the song, which is wracked with regret, loneliness, and longing—as well as tough truths: “Don’t let memory play games with your mind / She’s a faded smile frozen in time.” And “Keep It Together” is an ode to family values: “’Cause blood is thicker than any other circumstance.”

These sentiments were not surprising topics of discussion—Madonna freely talked about her roots and family in interviews—but they did provide new, more nuanced musical fodder. And it had a humanizing effect: Rather than coming across as a one-dimensional character in her songs, she gave listeners glimpses underneath the superstar facade. “I didn’t try to candy-coat anything or make it more palatable for mass consumption, I guess. I wrote what I felt,” she told SongTalk in response to a question about the record’s honesty, before later clarifying, “In the past I wrote a lot of songs that [revealed my inner self], but I felt they were too honest or too frightening or too scary and I decided not to record them. It just seemed like the time was right at this point. Because this was what was coming out of me.”

This placed Madonna in the unique position of being both bulletproof and vulnerable, making her an even more intriguing pop star. She saw the writing on the wall with changing pop trends (see: Milli Vanilli creeping into 1989’s mainstream music landscape) and knew she had to evolve to stay on top. Being bold enough to delve into her parental issues was a start; starting a conversation about religion—which remains one of the most incendiary topics a musician can address—was even braver.

Like A Prayer was Madonna’s first truly substantial record, the dividing line between her chirpy club-kid days and the mature sounds and themes that increasingly marked her ’90s work. The album’s sustained run at No. 1 buoyed her self-assurance and bravery, and validated that people were willing to follow her even as she transitioned into adulthood. And even today, Like A Prayer remains provocative and progressive: The racial tension alluded to in the “Like A Prayer” video is striking, while the album’s themes of religious and sexual oppression still feel all too relevant. Madonna dictated pop’s future direction while also being firmly in control of her own fortunes.

Source : AvClub

Monday, November 3, 2014

MADONNA’S HISTORY OF RUN-INS WITH RAPPERS

Observe this picture of Pop queen Madonna licking the side of Nas’ face. You can almost see the exact moment when he starts realizing what that tongue has done, where it’s been and how much soap and hand sanitizer he needs to correct the matter.



But with millions of albums sold, “The Material Girl” can still provide any rapper with the proper crossover appeal—even at the ripe age of 56. She can keep those “Vogue” raps, but when it’s time for a mean 16 bars, she knows how to enlist the proper heavy hitters. Hit the jump and check out Madonna’s history of run-ins with rappers.

- The Beastie Boys can attest to Madonna’s love of Hip-Hop. She brought the legendary trio on tour for her 1985 Like A Virgin Tour.

- Madonna’s 2009 greatest hits album, Celebration, featured a Lil Wayne cameo on the track “Revolver.” That would be the first of her YMCMB collaborations for those of you keeping track at home.

- The Chicago rapper was visited by Madonna backstage last year, and his social media profile rose exponentially.

- Proving her ear for relevant Rap sounds, Madonna enlisted Nicki Minaj on the single “Give Me All Your Luvin’” from Madonna’s 2012 album MDNA. Nicki also appeared on the track “I Don’t Give A.”

- After presumably being left on the cutting room floor from Madonna’s Hard Candy sessions, “The Beat Is So Crazy” was a match made in Interscope heaven between Madonna, Eve and Pharrell Williams. After being locked in the vaults, it was liberated in August of 2014.

- Hip-Hop doesn’t really claim Vanilla Ice, and rightfully so. But the motocross racer-turned-rapper also appeared in her Sex book, and by all accounts Madonna made Vanilla Ice one of her many boy toys.

- Calling now-defunct duo LMFAO rappers is a rather loose interpretation of the word. But they supplied Madonna with a remix of “Give Me All Your Luvin’” in 2012.

- In one of those random Grammy mash-ups, Madonna joined Queen Latifah, Macklemore, Ryan Lewis and Mary Lambert for a performance of “Same Love” at the 56th annual Grammy Awards.

- Check the credits for Madonna’s 2008 Hard Candy album, and you’ll see Pharrell Williams name a lot. Williams shares writing credits for half of the album’s 12 tracks, and the Neptunes are credited as producers on six tracks as well.

- When Madonna appeared as the featured performer during the Super Bowl XLVI halftime show, she wasn’t even the most controversial performer on stage. That distinction belongs to M.I.A., whom the NFL attempted to sue for $16.6 million after she flipped her middle finger to cameras on live television.

- Big Daddy Kane was featured in an incredibly provocative, staged ménage à trois photo with Madonna and model Naomi Campbell in her 1992 book, Sex. But Kane says, contrary to popular rumors, it was only a few pictures, and he never smashed.

- Madonna has posed with pics with Kanye West and Amber Rose in the past, and she recently caught up with West again at the Keep A Child Alive’s 2014 Black Ball. West and Madge actually made music together on the song “Beat Goes On” from her 2008 album Hard Candy.

- If you still care about that Nas versus Jay Z thing, then notice that Madonna didn’t actually appear on Jay Z’s “Justify My Thug,” but she is logging time (and face licks) with Nas. Score one for Nasir Jones.

Source : HipHopWired