For the most part, whatever legendary rapper and celebrated businessman Jay Z touches, it usually turns to gold. However, as much as we’d like to believe that this is true, not everything Beyonce’s beau puts his name to ends up being a success.

The 45-year-old rapper is a veteran of 15 full-length albums, and has won a list of high profile awards during his career. He’s performed at all the major festivals in the world including Coachella and Glastonbury. His music career and businesses have reported made him worth a staggering $560 million according to Celebrity Networth.

Apart from owning a long list of businesses and endorsing the likes of Chevy and Budweiser, there are some deals that have slipped through the fingers of the music mogul.

Unbeknown to many, in 2010 Jay Z failed in an attempt to buy a New York casino as a joint partnership deal with New York Governor, David Paterson. During this time the deal was being kept quite but once it fell in the hands of the media, Paterson was caused to pull the plug on the deal.

After Paterson refuted claims that Aqueduct Entertainment Group (AEG) had their plans for the casino and racetrack venture approved because of his friendship, he was caused to kibosh the deal in order to save face. During this time Jay Z was set to invest a huge part of the fortune he had accumulated into the venture.

Even if the deal would have gone through, many casino industry experts were questioning whether it was a good business venture for the rap superstar. During this time, online casino businesses were dominating the market and causing many land-based casinos to close because of huge losses due to the consumer preferring to play online. So the timing of this costly venture was being questioned by many.

With online casino gaming being launched 13 years prior to this through InterCasino, the aforementioned period had been anything but lucrative for casinos across the States. But what experts weren’t to know was that in 2011 Black Friday would close all online casino sites in the country and thus hand back casinos large revenue streams. Therefore in hindsight the venture would have gone in Jay Z’s favor if he would’ve been able to push the deal through.

It all goes to show, that even if we are led to believe that everything goes in the favor of the rap superstar, not every business deal is handed to him on a silver platter.

Las Vegas native Ritch gives us the audio stream and download to his recently released “Sky Club” visual freestyle from his #CRWN installment project.

Las Vegas based group 2Realist team up with fellow Vegas artist Euroz to bring us “Snoop in 94″ from their upcoming mixtape that is set to release October.

Pittsburgh CA artist Dubb 20 from The Jacka‘s The Artist Records is getting set to release his new mixtape ’20 Minutes’, volume 5 of the ‘GSlaps Radio’ mixtape series hosted by DJ Thats My Jam. The first leak is titled “Champion” which features Dallas rapper Lil Pooh and is composed by Bay Area producer Young Blood. The Mob affiliated artist’s release is scheduled for October 7th.

A few months ago Percy  Keith gave the world a little taste of what’s to come when he released the “Stories II” video and today he drops his album/mixtape Crazy On The Outside in collaboration with DGB. The project also includes 2 feature from fellow Bread Winner Kevin Gates.

Remember the name: City Shawn! One of the best projects from a new artist out the Bay I’ve heard in a while. Download it here

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Representing San Jose, City Shawn releases his new project EAST today for free download. With Bay Area factors Thizzler On The Roof, DreemTeem, Breezy Excursion, Redwall Studio and more behind the album, the streets have been humming with anticipation for City’s follow up to 2013’s Forever, which was hosted by Bay legend Traxamillion. Produced, mixed and mastered entirely by DreemTeem’s Cortez, EAST is a departure from the dark, trap heavy sound of Forever, and instead features for the most part a sample heavy “player vibe” that is sure to make you nod your head.

“All I want to accomplish with EAST is to show people you can just be you and it will work,” says City, “There’s many sides to every person, and EAST is just one side of me. The reason EAST is so different from Forever is because they’re two different albums and I was at two different stages in my life while I was making them. Forever 2 is next though!” Shouting out #SanJoseVsEverybody, City Shawn is determined to put San Jose on the map – and EAST is only the beginning.

Johnny Phrank out of left field with Problem on “Bitchez From Compton”. Phrank’s EP titled Flight Risk will be dropping some time this summer. Download the track by hitting the Pay With A Tweet button below.

Preparing for the summer release of his Flight Risk EP, Johnny Phrank drops the Bandplay produced (same producer behind Johnny’s “Pimp C Juice” and “Bitchez From Compton” records) “Jungle Alive” featuring Alocodaman. Stream the track and if you’d like to download it you can do so below with just a tweet.