Jay-Z has received a lot of hefty thumbs-up for Magna Carta... Holy Grail — from the likes of Courtney Love, who sanctioned Hov's use of Nirvana lyrics, to The Dean of Salisbury, the Very Reverend June Osborne, who allowed the album artwork to be displayed next to the original Magna Carta. Now, Jay can add another endorsement to the pile — this time from Tom Ford, who was "completely flattered" by his Magna Carta namecheck.

Jay-Z drops a lot of fashion references on his new album, including Givenchy on "Picasso Baby," Herme on "Oceans" and Gucci on "BBC." No designer, however, got as much love as Tom Ford, who scored an entire track under his name, replete with further namechecks.

Ford was apparently tickled by his ode, telling Billboard, "I mean, come on, who would not want a Jay-Z song named after them?"

This is not the first time Jay's name has been tied to Ford's. Hov sported the designer in his and Justin Timberlake's video as part of the designer's The 20/20 Experience partnership with JT. Ford created looks for the as well, along with the album artwork.

In addition to being a savvy rapper, Jay has always been a brand advocate — the most recent addition to his endorsement ouevre being Samsung devices. Hov aligned himself with Samsung for the release of Magna Carta, dropping the album on July 4 before its July 9 wide release date exclusively on Samsung phones via a specialized ...

Migos may be relative newcomers to rap, but the Atlanta trio already has a gang of fans — maybe none bigger than October's Very Own Drake.

"He came up to us and he started naming songs off the mixtape. That was crazy, if Drake came up to you naming songs of your mixtape, how you gon' feel?" TakeOff told MTV News, recalling the time the group met Drizzy backstage at Atlanta's Hot 107.9's Birthday Bash on June 15.

Migos is composed of TakeOff, Quavo and Offset, who was in jail at the time of the interview. Their breakout mixtape, Y.R.N. (Young Rich N---as), dropped on June 13 and features stand-out tracks like "Bando" (an ode to selling drugs out of abandoned building), the super-repetitive "Hannah Montana" and the Gucci Mane-assisted auto-tuned "Dennis Rodman." Still, it's the Drake remix to "Versace," which has had fans in a frenzy since Drizzy dropped it on June 22, a week after meeting Migos at Birthday Bash.

Without the guest verse, the Zaytoven-produced bouncy banger has all the right ingredients for a summertime hip-hop hit. The sparse keys, rolling drums work beautifully with the infectious chorus, which is just a repetitive chant promoting the luxurious clothing brand: "Versace, Versace, Versace."

The added Drake verse was the icing on the southern-baked cake. "Versace, Versace, Medusa head on me like I'm 'luminati/ This is a gated community, please get the f--- off the property," Drizzy starts off spitting before ending: "I'm trying to give Halle Berry a baby and no one can stop me."

"We kept ...

Hard to believe that Paris Hilton is signed to the record label that built its empire off street-bred artists like Juvenile, B.G. and Lil Wayne, but in May it was announced that the Hilton heiress has joined Cash Money, and Birdman couldn't be more excited.

"Honestly, I don't think people know how talented Paris is. I just left from her house she was playin' me some music and we were meeting," the Cash Money CEO told MTV News last month, when taking a break from a Los Angeles recording session where he was finalizing his upcoming Rich Gang album.

The actress announced the deal back in May and hopes to have her sophomore LP out later this year. Her first album dropped in 2006, but Hilton says that this new LP will be different from her initial pop offering. "It's really going to be house music," she told Showbiz 411.

Birdman certainly has an ear for talent. Not only has he groomed Lil Wayne from a kid rapper to a global rap master, his roster boasts a lineup that includes Nicki Minaj, Drake, Tyga, DJ Khaled, Busta Rhymes and Ace Hood. He's also recently added Limp Bizkit, Christina Milian and EDM act the Stafford Brothers into the fold and he absolutely stands by Paris.

"She got a record we're about to come out with and she's very talented. You know she's already somethin' special as an entrepreneur and everything that she do," he said. "But on the music side, I'm super excited. We all — me, Wayne, everybody — ...

John Mayer ended an already emotional tour-opening show at Milwaukee's Marcus Amphitheatre on a high note when he reportedly dedicated the last song of his set, "A Face To Call Home," to on-again off-again girlfriend Katy Perry, calling her "my face to call home."

Mayer hit the stage Saturday to kick off his Born and Raised Tour, his first since undergoing throat surgery last summer. The musician made scant mention of that experience during the show, except at the very end, when he remembered how caring Perry was during his recovery. "[She took the time] to continue to get know me and love me," he said, according to Rolling Stone.

Mayer and Perry were first spotted together last summer and continued to date on and off until this past spring, when Mayer confirmed the breakup on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show."

Recently, however, Perry told Vogue that her feelings for the crooner have not gone away. "[I] was madly in love with [Mayer]," she said. "I still am madly in love with him. All I can say about that relationship is that he's got a beautiful mind....Beautiful mind, tortured soul. I do have to figure out why I am attracted to these broken birds."

But after Perry posted a photo of the two together on the Fourth of July, it seems likely that the two are back together. Mayer's dedication on Saturday adds more fuel to that fire.

Although Mayer played a multitude of songs from 2012's Born and Raised during Saturday's show — the album that the tour takes its ...

At this point, M.I.A.'s problems with record labels are pretty well documented. First, the folks at Interscope delayed the release of her Matangi album because it was and then, after months of tinkering, she was apparently so frustrated that she decided to premiere the album's first single, herself.

Now, she's at war with Jay-Z's Roc Nation (which began operating as part of the Universal Music Group — the corportation that also owns Interscope — earlier this year) over a teaser clip for a Matangi documentary that began making the rounds this weekend and was quickly pulled by the Roc citing copyright infringement.

According to the doc's director, Steve Loveridge, the teaser was made in 2012 "to show Interscope what the film would feel like." Though after months of delays, Loveridge decided to force the label's hand, posting the clip on his blog and instructing M.I.A. fans to "reblog the sh--out of this and maybe they'll wake up."

Of course, those fans did as they were told, and within hours, Loveridge was hit with a copyright claim from the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, which caused the Matangi clip to be removed from YouTube. Out of frustration, the director then posted an email from a Roc Nation employee, who claimed that, despite the delays, the label was still planning on releasing the film in time for the album's promotional cycle and M.I.A.'s festival appearances, then added:

"The timing of this leak is not good, as it screws with everything we've been working on ...

Justin Bieber is ready to thank his fans for all their loyalty and devotion. That's why when he drops his next album, his the singer will do it in a way that celebrates them.

"For this project, we want to do things a little bit differently," Bieber's manager, Scooter Braun, told MTV News. "And there are more songs than 10 or 12, so if you have more music and you have more things you want to express, you gotta think out the box, and [think like] 'How do I get this out there in a unique way where it gets directly to my fans and I can express myself through music directly to them?' And I think that's what it's about when you have people who are incredibly creative, things happen."

If Bieber's re-thinking of the album release cycle seems like he's taking a page from the Jay-Z it's purely coincidental, having more to do with the natural progression of an ever-changing music industry and the increasing desire for artists to want to connect to fans. "I think it depends on what kind of music you're making and how you're trying to release it. But when you're giving something that's really for the fans, which is what Justin wants this to be, [then you can come up with new strategies]," the manager said.

Fans will get their first taste of the "music journal" later this year when he releases its lead single, which Braun says should silence the critics who are on a "You ...

Those irrepressible minions celebrated a Fourth of July holiday for the record books as took the #1 spot this weekend. Meanwhile, a big-budget film with an A-list star was dead on arrival and a standup comedian proved (once again) the smart box office business model of small budget.

The massive opening for "Despicable Me 2" made the most significant contribution to what became the biggest July Fourth weekend ever for movie theaters. The animated sequel, featuring the voices of Steve Carrell and Kristen Wiig, made $82.5 million from Friday to Sunday and enjoyed a five-day total of more than $142 million. "Despicable Me 2" now holds the record for biggest five-day haul for an animated movie ever, defeating "Shrek 2," which was released in May 2004.

Critics were behind "Despicable Me 2," and audiences assigned it a CinemaScore of "A."

Universal already had a summer hit on their hands with and the $75 million price tag for "Despicable Me 2" was money well spent given the fact that it's already grossed $293.1 million around the world.

Disney, on the other hand, can't be happy with the extreme underperformance of Despite playing in roughly as many locations as "Despicable Me 2" and reuniting the "Pirates of the Caribbean" team of Johnny Depp, director Gore Verbinski and producer Jerry Bruckheimer, the $215 million movie made just $49.9 million over its first five days. Its three-day weekend total of $29.4 million was less than the $34.4 million "Despicable Me 2" made on Wednesday alone.

"The Lone Ranger" suffered roughly the same ...

Former Jay-Z business partner Damon Dash didn't have much to celebrate over the fourth of July holiday weekend, as he was hit with a nearly $3 million tax bill by Uncle Sam.

The Roc-A-Fella Records co-founder has been battling the IRS for several years over claims that he owes millions in unpaid taxes, but according to TMZ, the bill has come due. The site reported that a $2.8 million tax lien was recently filed against Dash, claiming that he owes major taxes from the years 2005 ($2.6 million) and 2011 ($187,544).

A spokesperson for Dash could not be reached for comment at press time. TMZ additionally reported that Dash — who famously split
 with Jigga back in 2004 — has said he also owes back taxes in New York and New Jersey and that he's lost multiple properties to foreclosure as a result.

Dash has been struggling to pay off his tax debt for several years. Two years ago he confirmed that he owed 
 and that the IRS was auditing him. At the time, he said the audit was a result of his accountant's failure to itemize his expenses, explaining that the conflict comes from his re-investment in his business ventures.

"If I have an accountant that just reports I just invested $10 million in my business and he doesn't exactly itemize where every cost goes, it gives a flag to the government," he said. "They want to make sure that the reason I'm not paying taxes is because I'm reinvesting in these businesses and not ...

EAST RUTHERFORD, New Jersey — One Direction fans have a lot to look forward to in the coming months. After they find out what the "Best Song Ever" sounds like, they'll get to catch the boys in action when their 3-D documentary, hits theatres in August. And it seems like all the excitement has them in tears.

Last week, 1D released the trailer for the Morgan Spurlock-directed flick, and in it was everything a Directioner could have hoped for, including childhood photos, trips back to their hometowns and most importantly, a shirtless and pantless Harry Styles. MTV News recently dropped by One Direction's Take Me Home Tour stop at New Jersey's Izod Center to get their reaction on the trailer and to find out which scene tugged the hardest on their heart strings.

"You just realize how far they've gone, their three-year anniversary is coming up and they were normal and they went through 'The X Factor,' " Nina Aninipot said of her reaction when she first watched the "This is Us" trailer. "And it just blows my mind." Directioner Tasina Berkey added," I cried the first time I saw it, I'm a little embarrassed, but I did. When they showed the baby pictures in the beginning of the movie, they were just so cute and precious."

And while others chose the more lighthearted moments, like Harry visiting his hometown bakery and Liam Payne fishing Harry out of the water, many were truly touched when Zayn Malik gave his family the ultimate gift: a new home.

"The part where Zayn ...