{"id":545015,"date":"2026-03-18T18:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T18:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/545015\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T18:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T18:06:08","slug":"meaningful-reason-behind-jay-zs-name-change-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/545015\/","title":{"rendered":"Meaningful reason behind Jay-Z\u2019s name change revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jay-Z\u00a0aficionados noticed this week that the hip hop icon has added an umlaut to his name.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>An announcement that the \u201c99 Problems\u201d rapper is joining The Roots for the band\u2019s two-day Philly music fest was billed as, \u201cJA\u0178-Z and The Roots,\u201d and his artist name on Spotify, YouTube and more is now spelled the same way.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The inspiration for the change isn\u2019t M\u00f6tley Cr\u00fce, but rather a tribute to one of his classic records. Pals of the star pointed out to us that Jay used the same German punctuation on the cover art of his 1996 release, \u201cReasonable Doubt.\u201d And this year marks the album\u2019s 30th anniversary.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jay-Z is partial to punctuation: In 2013, he dropped the hyphen from his name, then brought it back in 2017, changing it to all caps. He reformatted his moniker as JAY:Z for his \u201c4:44\u201d album, making him a copy editor\u2019s nightmare. Either way, \u201cJA\u0178-Z and The Roots\u201d will headline a May 30 gig for the Roots Picnic.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jay-Z\u00a0aficionados noticed this week that the hip hop icon has added an umlaut to his name.\u00a0 An announcement&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75,21617,180661,7460],"class_list":["post-545015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-jay-z","tag-page-six-hollywood","tag-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}