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Kanye West updated his blog last night with a video from a tour stop at Madison Square Garden that features a surprise performance by Jay-Z.

The two impresarios debut a never-before-heard track from Jay-Z’s anticipated forthcoming album, Blueprint 3, in which he implores the ladies out there: Keep your tops on, Beyoncé is in the house.

“Ask Yeezy / I got girls on shoulders showing me their chi-chis,” Jay raps to the NYC audience. “I’m like life ain’t fair / Chill baby girl, my girl is here.”

Who else gets the cold shoulder from Jigga during the show?

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Looks can be deceiving. Apparently.

Yesterday, a new print ad for L'Oréal Paris' Feria hair color surfaced, featuring a seemingly paler than usual Beyoncé Knowles. Today, the French cosmetics giant is adamantly denying that it gave its longtime spokeswoman a case of the Michael Jacksons.

"Beyoncé Knowles has been a spokesperson for the L'Oréal Paris brand since 2001," the company said in a statement to E! News, after coming under withering online attacks suggesting the ad (on right, above) lightened more than just the hair color of the brand's famous face.

"We highly value our relationship with Ms. Knowles. It is categorically untrue that L'Oréal Paris altered Ms. Knowles' features or skin-tone in the campaign for Feria's hair color."

A rep for the 27-year-old Knowles declined to comment beyond the L'Oréal statement.

The ad is appearing in this month's Elle, Allure and Essence. So far the magazines have not said anything about possible Pantone issues.

In any case, color us embarrassed.

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Typically, getting personal details out of a celebrity's publicist is like pulling teeth. Apparently, that's not so with Beyoncé's rep, who's even offered to act as the media's own ob-gyn.

As sources have been saying Jay-Z's wifey has "gained a lot of pregnancy weight," a rep for the singer tells the New York Post, "I don't know if she's pregnant. Let me perform an ultrasound and get back to you."

Now, that's the kind of cooperative spirit we appreciate around here.

Hard-knock life? Not anymore. Hard-knock wife? We wouldn't dream of going there.

One thing Jay-Z definitely has these days is a sporting wife, as none other than Beyoncé herself teased a sold-out crowd at Madison Square Garden Friday night, taking to the stage to briefly dance to the duo's duet, "Crazy in Love."

The rapper played a snippet of the song from a DJ booth onstage and then quickly cut off the track.

At that point, the missus emerged from backstage, shook her bootylicious self and just as quickly bounced back off, though not before twirling in front of her chuckling hubby.

Always leave them wanting more.

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To paraphrase the famous line about a rose by any other name still being a rose, Beyoncé’s sister—by whatever name—is still Beyoncé's sister!

It seems B's younger sibling (and Jay-Z's new sister-in-law), Solange Knowles, will now go by the oh-so-creative moniker SoL-AngeL on her upcoming sophomore album.

And she says that getting the CD made in the first place was quite an effort.

"I literally had to beg [record producer] Cee-Lo to listen to my music, but once he did, he signed on immediately."

Ah, we stand corrected. For a minute there, we thought maybe nepotism had someting to do with it.

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The question of did they or didn't they has finally been answered: On April 4, Beyoncé and Jay-Z most certainly did.

While the newlyweds have yet to confirm or deny—or make any comment whatsoever on—their marital status, E! News has confirmed the superstar duo quietly filed their signed wedding license in Scarsdale, N.Y., Friday afternoon.

"Yes, we did receive it back," Scarsdale Town Clerk Donna Conkling said. "We do have public information on our marriage applicants, and that's one of the things we can confirm."

The license, which arrived at Scarsdale Town Hall in the mail, confirms what we reported on the happy day: namely, that Shawn Carter made Beyoncé Knowles his missus.

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