Well, they deserve it. New parents are notoriously short on sleep, and if Beyonce and Jay-Z’s devotion to their destiny’s child, Blue Ivy Carter, are any indication, we’re guessing they’re staying up at night with their daughter themselves…

But Sunday night…the night of the Grammys…was a night the couple decided to take a break from parenting duties and go on a romantic pre-Valentine’s Day date together.

They left one-month-old Blue Ivy at home and made a coo-some two-some at their favorite pizzeria, Lucali, in the Carroll Gardens area of Brooklyn.

That meant that Jay-Z, who was up for an award with Kanye West for Best Rap Performance for “Otis” from their album, “Watch the Throne,” was an absent from the Grammy Awards.

Big deal. Bonding with wifey is more important. This guy knows which side his bread is buttered on.

Incidentally, co-awardee, Kanye West was absent, too. Wonder who he’d gone on a pre-Valentine’s Day date with.

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Kelly Rowland was right. Blue Ivy Carter is absolutely gorgeous!

The proud parents opted to reveal their beloved heir and offspring on their own terms, neither courting the tabloids for a million dollar deal announcement (ahem, Mariah Carey), or keeping their star child to themselves until the media lost interest (e.g., their own super secret wedding in 2008)…

Instead, they chose to share images of their new-born daughter with the world via a Tumblr page they released themselves.

“We welcome you to share in our joy.”

A handwritten message on the page reads.

“Thank you for respecting our privacy during this beautiful time in our lives. The Carter Family.”

And isn’t it fitting this child of the power couple, who’s already made music history and had her name trademarked, makes inroads into our hearts this way?

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A brand we still haven’t gotten a single glimpse of, by the way.

Apparently Beyonce and Jay-Z needed to take immediate steps to ensure their baby’s name wasn’t used as a brand name for any line of baby-related products, including carriages, diaper bags and baby cosmetics, after a fashion designer, Joseph Mbeh, submitted an application to trademark “Blue Ivy Carter NYC” just four days after the child was born…

Not to mention that Blue Ivy strain of marijuana, which was named in honor of the yet-to-be-seen star child.

The A-list power couple have already filed their application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office after it turned down Mbeh‘s earlier application, and a second claim by another applicant who attempted to trademark “Blue Ivy Carter Glory IV” for a line of fragrances just last month.

Wise of Beyonce and Jay-Z. It’s a good thing they acted quickly (although not quick enough) to exercise their legal right to trademark their baby’s name. Who’d want their child to grow up  with a moniker found on nearly every product, from heavy-duty poop diapers to weed sprouts?

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Jay-Z and Beyonce‘s star child, whom no one has laid eyes on except her parents, close family member, nannies, bodyguards, and select friends like Kelly, is fast becoming the mystery of the quarter…when are we going to finally see this wonder baby who’s had the maternity ward of a top New York hospital closed off for her, had a Billboard Top 100 song dedicated to her, classic lullabies created for her, and even a strain of marijuana named after her?

Her proud father even cleaned up his act and swore to curse anyone who’d use the “B” word in front of him.

“She’s beautiful, she’s beautiful. Absolutely gorgeous!”

Kelly Rowland gushed to Access Hollywood.

She also explained why Beyonce and Jay-Z are closeting themselves with their newborn away from prying eyes.

“That’s their own piece of heaven, and I think it’s beautiful that they have it just for themselves,”

Kelly continued.

“Because when you have a beautiful baby, you know, you just want that for you and your husband and I think they are in that space.”

And she ended her the interview with a plea…or was it a warning passed on by the proud parents?

“Just leave them alone,”

Kelly implored.

And for now, we will. But who’s to stop enterprising paparazzi with their zoom lens cameras from infiltrating that snug little world for a chance at snapping a photo of Baby Blue?

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Now that Paula Abdul and Nicole Scherzinger have been fired from “X Factor,” rumors are swirling about who gets to take their spots… and the number 1 candidate? Beyonce!

Simon Cowell reportedly wants to hire Beyonce to boost interest in his show… and he’s offering her $100 million per year—about $500 million overall for five seasons—to take one of the newly vacated spots on the “X Factor” judging panel.

Mariah Carey was also considered for the spot, but in the end Beyonce was the one Simon approached. A source explains to MediaTakeOut.com:

“He wants a big name female star on the panel. Mariah [Carey] is good, but she’s not that hot today. He wants Beyonce because that would immediately give him the bounce needed to beat American Idol.”

Would you be more likely to watch “X Factor” if Beyonce were to join the judging panel?

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And we haven’t even seen a single glimpse of this magical wonder baby!

We’re already gasping at the news that the new dad has cleaned up his act and vowed to take out the “b” word from his lyrics, now here we have a music production house inspired by Jay-Z‘s devotion to baby Blue, they decided to take some of the hip-hop mogul’s profanity-laced work and as well as some selected Beyonce songs, and transform it into clean, classical lullabies for Blue Ivy Carter to listen to…

Nothing like some classical music to ensure a baby has the best mental development around, eh?

The Jingle Punks Hipster Orchestra took seven of the power couple’s most popular songs, and created a classical instrumental mix of lullabies for Blue Ivy, including Jay-Z‘s “H To The Izzo,” “Big Pimpin,” and “Empire State Of Mind.” Beyoncé‘s “Crazy In Love,” “Halo,” and “Irreplaceable” also made the mix.

Take a look at this video by the Hipster Orchestra’s group 4 Strings And An 808, and tell us whether this new album dedicated to the star child is a fitting tribute to the daughter of Beyonce and Jay-Z…

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A representative for Beyonce and Jay-Z denied reports that Oprah Winfrey was among the people in the list being considered as godparents to baby Blue Ivy, and as the news broke out, Oprah didn’t even know it was going down. She was in South Africa when the barely-month old Blue Ivy was born, and she hasn’t even met the child yet…

Still, Oprah is good friends with Beyonce and Jay-Z, so we can never discount the fact that the power couple may invite her to the baptism, and even request that baby Blue get first dibs on Winfrey‘s annual Favorite Things list.

One never knows, that baby may get her own talk show as soon as she starts to talk…which isn’t that inconceivable if you have Oprah Winfrey as a mentor…

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It seems Blue Ivy‘s parents, Jay-Z and Beyonce have been carefully considering the people to whom they plan to entrust their 19-day-old heir’s spiritual guidance, and they feel media mogul and queen of television, Oprah Winfrey is the perfect fit for their destiny’s child…

Among Jay-Z and Beyonce‘s considerations for shortlisting godparent candidates is that said godparent should not be a blood relation. This scratches out Blue Ivy‘s aunt, Solange Knowles, who was raring and ready to spoil Blue Ivy more rotten than she already is.

And secondly, the godparent needs to be freaking rich. All the better to gift Blue Ivy with the bling she needs in the life she’ll lead.

So we guess Oprah fits the bill. Congrats Oprah!

Is Diddy up next?

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Bryan Lessard, a 24-year-old researcher at Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (want to bet he’s a fan?) has some previously published documents on the species that’s been sitting in a fly collection since it was captured in 1981 — the same year pop diva Beyonce was born. And it’s name?

Scaptia (Plinthina) beyonceae.

Lessard said he wanted to pay homage to the insect’s beauty and named it after the bootylicious Grammy award singer. Yup, he’s a fan alright.

This means Scaptia (Plinthina) beyonceae, the fly with the golden bum, will be in nature history books from this day forward.

Again, how lucky is this fly!

So that makes two in the family whose names now grace delightful natural species in the world (Week-old Blue Ivy Carter now has a marijuana strain named after her, remember?)

Wonder what they’ll be naming after Jay-Z?

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In another “whitewashing” of events, a promotional photo for the Grammy winner and new mom turned up lighter…much, much lighter than expected.

With her blonde wig and Photoshop bleached skin, you’d almost expect Beyonce to be Caucasian, just like in another whitewashed L’Oreal ad controversy she appeared in in 2008. Chalk the photo down to artistic license, but Beyonce‘s skin lightening, whether in photographs or in real life, harks back to her days during Destiny’s Child when her father and then manager, Matthew Knowles, encouraged his bread and butter to be as light as she possibly could be…

A decade or so later, and Beyonce‘s still at it in this promotional photo taken for her album “4,” just before she caught pregnant.

Does Beyonce have some sort of vitiligo (a condition that causes patches of light skin) of the mind, causing her to think darker skin is somehow inferior?

Let’s just hope she doesn’t end up becoming a female version of Michael Jackson who, in the last years of his life, was more white than most Caucasians out there…

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Not only was Blue Ivy the most anticipated baby in Hollywood, her coming disrupted the smooth operations and customer service (for other patients, that is) at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York, and made history as the youngest ever person to make it to the Billboard Top 100 chart. Now L.A. pot shops have dedicated a strain of weed sprouts in her name…Beyonce and Jay-Z (and particularly Jay-Z) must be puff-out proud!

In another record for the Guiness’ Book, “OG Blue Ivy” is popping up in multiple weed dispensers all over Hollywood. So if you’ve a mind to draw in the sweetness of this baby whose namesake hasn’t yet been seen by the world, hop on over to any pot shop in L.A. and breathe in the scent of celebrity.

And while Beyonce and Jay-Z haven’t given their okay on this new strain, neither have they sicced their legal hounds with notices to cease and desist on sellers of “OG Blue Ivy.”

So, suck in deep while the goings good….

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Reserving the whole neonatal ward, and indeed, the whole floor of the hospital for the birth of baby Blue Ivy cost Beyonce and Jay-Z a reported $1.3 million, though the hospital was quick to deny that they gave any special treatment to the Grammy award winning singer and her hip-hop mogul of a husband. But pictures do speak a thousand words, don’t they? So here’s a few more thousand of them…

“The suggestion that the couple paid $1.3 million to rent an entire maternity floor is simply not true,”

the hospital said in a statement they recently issued.

“The family is housed in an executive suite at the hospital and is being billed the standard rate for those accommodations.”

But what about allegations the couple’s stringent security detail gave other hospital patients and their visitors,  not to mention the medical staff, a hard time?

“The family does have its own security detail on site. However, the hospital has been and continues to be in control of managing all security at the facility,”

the Lennox Hill administration continued in it’s statement.

A statement belied by reports of an irate Manhattan contractor, Neil Coulon, among many other mistreated parents, who complained that Beyonce‘s security team refused him entry not only once, but three times, when he tried to visit his wife who had given birth to premature twin girls.

“Once they checked in there was high security everywhere,”

his wife, Rozz Nash-Coulon, revealed to The Associated Press.

“It looked like the president was on our floor. The hospital’s security cameras were taped over. Internal windows from the hallways into the ward were blacked out.”

Other patients complained that they were hampered by the star’s burly security guards. Others said they were denied access or forced to wait to go to their rooms. Cellphones were detained at the floor to the maternity ward, and one of the doctors alleged he was unable to contact his patients via mobile because of this.

And that just goes to show how special Blue Ivy Carter is…barely a week old, yet recipient of the kind of treatment reserved for royalty. Who wouldn’t want to give birth in these kind of surroundings?

Watch out, people…Blue Ivy Carter will be a force to reckon with…right after you get past her parents, that is…

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And we don’t even know what she looks like yet.

Blue Ivy Carter yowled her first hello into the world Saturday, her presence making itself felt on a whole floor of the neonatal wing at New York’s Lennox Hill Hospital. Inspired and immeasurably touched, her hip-hop mogul father burst into song…said song making it’s way to No. 74 on the Billboard Hot 100 within three days of it’s release…

“The most amazing feeling I feel/Words can’t describe what I’m feeling for real/ Maybe I paint the sky blue/My greatest creation was you. You. Glory.”

Jay-Z raps in the refrain of the viral sensation that features baby Blue‘s cries at the end.

“Hard not to spoil you rotten, lookin’ like lil’ me,”

Jay-Z gives us a hint about which of her parents Blue Ivy takes after.

“The most beautifullest thing is this world…She’s Daddy’s little girl…”

Take a long listen here to Jay-Z‘s emotional tribute to his “Wicked ass lil’ B”…

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The 30-year-old Grammy award-winning pop singer and her hip-hop mogul husband, 42, shelled out a reported $1.3 million to book a whole swanky, newly renovated suite (some sources say they took over a whole floor) of the Lenox Hill Hospital on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. And then there’s the list of Beyonce‘s diva-ish demands…

Beyonce checked in under the pseudonym “Ingrid Jackson,” which doesn’t make a lot of sense if everybody knew Ingrid Jackson booked the whole neonatal wing of a New York hospital at the same time news was spreading like wildfire that a certain broad named Beyonce was ready to pop out Destiny’s Child.

She also demanded for hospital staff to turn over their cell phones to avoid any unauthorized picture snapping, and instructed all security camera lenses on her floor to be covered with tape.

And we still have to get to the security team who reportedly muscled their way across the whole maternity and neonatal wing in their zeal to keep paparazzi and  curiosity seekers away, quite forgetting Beyonce…excuse us, “Ingrid Jackson”…wasn’t the only patient or expectant mother there.

In fact, Brooklyn contractor Neil Coulon complained about having been barred repeatedly from seeing his wife who gave birth to premature twin girls that day. Coulon’s still waiting for an apology. Think he’s going to get it?

Maybe Bey…that is to say, “Ingrid Jackson,” should have just flown to another country to give birth. You know, like Brangelina. Goodness knows she and “Mr. Jackson” can afford it.

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Proud new father Jay-Z released a new song to celebrate the birth of his and Beyonce’s first child together, Blue Ivy Carter, who was born on Saturday at the Lenox Hill Hospital in New York. The song, however, gave celebrity gossip websites quite a shock.

Jay-Z’s song, which reveals that Beyonce had a miscarriage before Blue Ivy, goes:

“Last time the miscarriage was so tragic

We was afraid you’d disappear

But nah baby you magic”

Apart from the shocking revelation, Jay-Z sings about his happiness at being a father:

“The most amazing feeling I feel

Words can’t describe what I’m feeling for real

Baby, I paint the sky blue, my greatest creation was you”

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A-list power couple BEYONCE and JAY-Z booked, sealed and redecorated the whole neonatal wing of Lenox Hill for a reported $1.3 million, and distressed father Neil Coulon, 38, of Brooklyn, reported that he was barred several times from seeing his newborn babies by the couple’s security. He claims Beyonce‘s bodyguards treated the whole wing like their own private club, which tripled his wife’s stress giving birth to premature twin girls…

Coulon complained Beyonce‘s security team barred him from entering the hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit repeatedly, once for over 20 minutes, so he could see his newborn daughters.

“Three times they stopped me from entering or exiting the NICU (Neo-natal Intensive Care Unit) and it happened once on Friday — just because they wanted to use the hallway,”

Coulon, a contractor from from Bedford-Stuyvesant told the NY Daily News.

“They should have been more strategic about it,”

he griped.

“These are children with problems in intensive care and you’re just going to take over the hospital like you own it? All I want is an apology.”

He also reported bodyguards wearing headsets even cleared the sixth floor waiting room, booting his relatives out.

“I know they spent $1.3 million and I’m just a contractor from Bed-Stuy, but the treatment we received was not okay. My wife is just terribly upset. She had a C-section. She gave birth to twins. She is sore. Nobody needs this.”

Coulon continued, riled.

“This is the NICU. Nobody cares if you’re a celebrity. Nobody is star-gazing. They just want to see their children.”

Welcome to the seamy side of showbiz, Neil Coulon, where celebrities believe money could buy everything.

You could always sue…

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Beyonce, who announced her first pregnancy in August at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards, has finally popped out her and hubby Jay-Z’s little bundle of joy! The singer reportedly gave birth on Saturday to baby girl Blue Ivy Carter (Jay-Z’s real name is Shawn Carter) at a hospital in New York.

A few of the couple’s celebrity pals have confirmed the news via Twitter through their messages of support and congratulation to the couple. Just a few hours ago, Beyonce and Jay-Z’s close friend Gwyneth Paltrow tweeted:

“Welcome to the world, Blue. We love you already.”

Rihanna, Jay-Z’s protégé, also took to Twitter to extend her congratulations to the couple:

“Welcome to the world princess Carter! Love Aunty Rih”

Def Jam co-founder and hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons also tweeted:

“congrats to my good friends Beyonce and Jay-Z“

The first time parents reportedly chose the name “Ivy” because the number 4—IV in Roman numeral—is significant to them, as they were both born on the 4th (Beyonce on September 4 and Jay-Z on December 4) and got married on April 4, 2008.

Again, congratulations to Beyonce and Jay-Z!

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The full-to-bursting, mom-any-second-now was spotted with her husband, Jay-Z, ringing in the New Year at a popular New York restaurant dressed in sky-high heels. And contrary to reports she’d already checked into the St. Luke’s Roosevelt’s Labor and Delivery Suite in New York and had her destiny’s child, allegations are untrue…she’s still hugely enormous and raring to party!

Beyonce, 30, was spotted stuffing her and Baby Bey’s face at the Buttermilk Channel in Brooklyn with Jay-Z shortly before midnight on New Year’s Eve.

“She was definitely a pregnant lady that night,”

an onlooker told People Magazine.

“They sat side by side and had a cozy and intimate dinner. They seemed to be having a lovely time.”

But as humongous as she was, Beyonce didn’t let her due-any-time-now baby bump get in the way of her sense of style.

“She looked amazing. She wore sky-high heels. It was really impressive for an enormously pregnant woman,”

another source reports.

“She looked like she was about to give birth.”

After dinner, Beyonce and Jay-Z headed on to her sister, Solange Knowles‘ apartment to usher in 2012 with a huge New Year’s Eve bash.

Now how many of you are betting your bottom dollar Baby Bey will come into the world a party animal?

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Celebrity gossip websites have been going in a frenzy ever since gossip has spread like wildfire reporting Beyonce and Jay-Z have welcomed a new baby, Tiana May Carter, into their kingdom Thursday.

The rumors started when a whole maternity wing in a New York hospital, the St. Luke’s Roosevelt, was booked for the occasion of the highly anticipated birth a couple of days ago. Now the Internet is a-buzz with the news that Beyonce has finally delivered destiny’s child into the world, but no one seems to have confirmation of the fact yet…

Are Beyonce and Jay-Z shopping for a birth announcement that’ll pay them a fat paycheck they’ll use to start the baby’s likely considerable trust fund? Or maybe there’ve been complications in the birth, and Beyonce‘s still in labor even as you read.

Nobody knows for sure if a healthy baby girl was delivered, or if their brand new spawn has two heads and eight arms.

We’re putting our bets on the probability that the proud parents are enjoying their one and only offspring and spending quality time as a family this New Year’s before the media deluge begins…

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The multi-Grammy winner wordlessly announced her pregnancy in August this year during the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards, and it was made known by official announcement she was five months pregnant at that time.

Now celebrity news is a-flutter over reports Beyonce could give birth anytime today…

The buzz at New York City’s St. Luke’s Roosevelt is that a “celebrity VIP” suite is currently being prepared for the birth of the heir to Beyonce and Jay-Z‘s kingdom, and that Beyonce is expected to deliver as early as today.

The hospital has a Labor and Delivery Suite (where Alicia Keys delivered her son, Egypt last year) usually reserved for high profile parties, and it’s rumored Beyonce will be occupying that suite very, very soon. In fact, she may have already checked in even as you read this…

So in advanced for Beyonce and Jay-Z‘s soon-to-be-delivered destiny’s child…congratulations!

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