Jay-Z has 99 Problems, and the 40/40 Club accounts for 69 of them
I'm really tired of blogging about Jay-Z and Beyonce and the new Chosen One (sorry Harry Potter, you're not the Chosen One anymore), and seeing them everywhere, on every blog. #firstworldproblems. Last week sometime (all the days blend together when you work on a computer all day), Jay-Z reopened his 40/40 Club in New York after it was shut down for 10 months for $10 million worth of renovations. The NY Post reported that the 40/40 Club was shut down for food violations, stemming from a broken refrigerator. Nonetheless, that is nasty. The Health Inspector gave it 69 violation points, earning it the worst grade of C, when you only need 28 points to get it. So, Jay-Z might have 99 problems, but the 40/40 Club accounts for 69 of them (you can see the violations here). TMZ later reported that the club is back in business after fixing the fridge, and their score is pending review. Lately, I've been watching shows like Restaurant Impossible on the Food Network, with that buff chef with the goofy accent whose name I obviously don't know, where they go fix failing restaurants. Some of the restaurants I've seen have horrible conditions that wouldn't pass a Health Inspection, either. In other news, because I don't feel like designating a blog post to each, Rocawear laid off 28 employees due to "economic" problems (via HiphopDX). Australian scientist Bryan Lessard named a rare horse fly after Beyonce, officially calling it Scaptia (Plinthina) beyonceae (AHH). I think that's a compliment? How many people have anything like that named after them? Last but not least, within days of her birth, Blue Ivy had a strain of weed named after her, with some California dispensaries having a strain named OG Blue Ivy (
