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And Finally
Jay-Z makes cray-z name change
By Aly Barchi | Published on Monday 22 July 2013
New in the ‘hip hop stars making barely noticeable changes to their names’ game, famed MC Shawn ‘Magna’ Carter has altered his rap alias slightly, from Jay-Z to… wait for it… Jay Z. Yeah, that’s right, he did away with the dash between the ‘Jay’ and the ‘Z’ and… well, that’s the size of it really.
Billboard boss Joe Levy was first to eye the new disparity, tweeting this last week: “Breaking: Jay Z has dropped the hyphen from his name, according to his label. I am not kidding. (Wish I was). Copy editors: take note”.
Apparently, Levy added, Jay’s new hypen-less pen name isn’t a new thing, and has been the case since pre-Z and Kanye West’s, ‘Watch The Throne’ LP. Oops.
