Fans accused Beyoncé of plagiarizing her 2011 Billboard Awards performance from Italian pop star Lorella Cuccarini. Beyoncé acknowledged being influenced by Cuccarini’s work, stating, “Thank god for YouTube, or I would have never been exposed to something so inspiring.”

Harry Belafonte blasted Jay Z and Beyonce for having “turned their backs on social responsibility.”A Wikileaks document exposed the fact that Beyonce had performed at a party connected to Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi.

Jay Z loses his hyphen, world in shock

Grammarians are stunned by the punctuation shift

Jay Z may have 99 problems, but he’s got zero hyphens. The man once known as Shawn Carter has quietly dropped the punctuation mark from his name.Billboard editor Joe Levy broke the story on Wednesday, announcing that Jay-Z’s label has confirmed the removal of the hyphen from his name. It seems to be a trend, as Kanye West is also currently selling “hip hop” T-shirts without a hyphen, much to the disappointment of old school hip-hop fans.No specific reason was provided for Jay-Z’s decision to drop the hyphen, but considering the various changes in his life, it might have been inevitable.What’s particularly surprising is that the hyphen has been absent for quite some time, and many people hadn’t even noticed. Jay-Z’s publicist, Jana Fleishman, casually mentioned to Complex on Thursday, “Dude. We haven’t used the hyphen since 2010.” It’s like realizing your favorite Chinese restaurant in your hometown closed down years ago. We may be late to the realization, but we now appreciate the significance of that tiny punctuation mark, and we won’t overlook it again.