{"id":12350,"date":"2012-01-19T15:10:54","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T20:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=12350"},"modified":"2012-01-19T15:10:54","modified_gmt":"2012-01-19T20:10:54","slug":"jay-zs-rocawear-brand-cuts-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=12350","title":{"rendered":"Jay-Z&#8217;s Rocawear Brand Cuts Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While <strong>Jay-Z<\/strong> is on cloud nine with daughter <strong>Blue Ivy Carter<\/strong>, his former pride and joy, Rocawear, seems to be on the verge of chapter 11.<\/p>\n<p>The hip-hop clothing brand, which <strong>Jay-Z<\/strong> founded in 1999 with producer <strong>Damon Dash<\/strong>, laid off half the staff of its men&#8217;s and boys apparel division on January 6.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jay-Z<\/strong> sold the Rocawear brand in 2007 for $204 million in cash to Iconix Group, a licensing company that also owns brands such as Candie&#8217;s, Ed Hardy and Signature Apparel Group LLC.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jay-Z Swears Off &#8216;B-Word&#8217; For Blue Ivy<\/strong><br \/>\nFatherhood seems to have changed <strong>Jay-Z<\/strong> after welcoming a baby girl, <strong>Blue Ivy Carter<\/strong> with wife, <strong>Beyonc\u00e9<\/strong> this month, the rapper has reportedly sworn off of using the word &#8220;b*tch.&#8221; He penned a poem celebrating the birth of his daughter that read:<\/p>\n<p>Before I got in the game, made a change, and got rich\/I didn&#8217;t think hard about using the word b*tch\/I rapped, I flipped it, I sold it, I lived it\/Now with my daughter in this world I curse those that give it.<br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jay-Z<\/strong> has used the word widely in songs including hits &#8220;<em>99 Problems<\/em>,&#8221; &#8220;<em>That&#8217;s My B*tch<\/em>&#8221; from his<em> Watch the Throne<\/em> album with <strong>Kanye Wes<\/strong>t and <em>&#8220;B*tches &amp; Sisters&#8221;<\/em> where he tried to make a distinction between types of women.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Jay-Z is on cloud nine with daughter Blue Ivy Carter, his former pride and joy, Rocawear, seems to be on the verge of chapter 11. The hip-hop clothing brand, which Jay-Z founded in 1999 with producer Damon Dash, laid off half the staff of its men&#8217;s and boys apparel division on January 6. Jay-Z [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}