The first photos of celebrities’ kids can fetch big bucks from the tabloids.  Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's twins Knox Leon & Vivienne Marcheline garnered over $11 million, Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony’s kids Max & Emme Muñiz were priced at $6 million, and someone was even willing to lay down a whopping $1 million for Britney Spears’ sister’s baby.  It’s not chump change. But instead of cashing in on Blue Ivy's pic, Beyonce and Jay-Z have chosen to release the images themselves on a Tumblr called HelloBlueIvyCarter. The shots are adorable.

Finally, finally: Jay-Z and Kanye West have released a music video for "N----- in Paris," the song they played up to like eleven times in a row on their Watch the Throne tour. It's a live video, too, perfectly capturing the sensation of being bombarded over and over and over by the song's walloping beat. A kaleidoscope effect doubles the 'Ye and Jay we see, as well as the well-dressed fans losing their mind in the crowd. (Warning: if you're sensitive to flashing lights, you may want to pass on this one.)

● Beyoncé and Jay-Z are filing quickly for trademark of their baby's name, Blue Ivy, because two other people have already tried to do the same. [WP]

● According to newly revealed details from a petition for a restraining order filed by Frances Bean against her mom, Courtney Love, in 2009, Frances's "cat died after getting entangled in piles of Etsy fabrics, boxes of paperwork, trash, and other possessions." And then, adding insult to injury, Frances' dog ate a bunch of Courtney's pills and died. [TheFix]

● Michelle Williams's next big role is to be somewhat less glamorous than her last. With no big projects on the horizon, she says that she "just [wants] to go back to being a mom for a while." [Huff Post]

Beyonce is many things: singer, dancer, living pop icon, wife, mother, and namesake of a new breed of horsefly. She is also the subject of a new course being taught at Rutger’s University, "Politicizing Beyonce."

● According to MediaTakeOut, Jay-Z and Beyoncé have named Tyran "Ty Ty" Smith, Jay's mai-tai sippin' bestie, and Oprah, Jay's other bestie, as godparents to little Blue Ivy. Kanye and Michelle O. got the snub. [MTO]

After becoming a proud poppa, it was easy to believe Jay-Z was ready to renounce the evils of his life -- namely, his affinity for saying "bitch." In a poem that was credited to him by the NME and plenty of other press outlets, he supposedly wrote, "Before I got in the game, made a change, and got rich/I didn’t think hard about using the word bitch/I rapped, I flipped it, I sold it, I lived it/Now with my daughter in this world I curse those that give it." It was a pleasant sentiment, as calling women that is not very nice. But according to his handlers, it's also incorrect.

Did you guys hear? Some lady named Beyonce had a baby in a ultra-lux $800 a night hospital super-suite, forcing out a random non-famous dad who just wanted to take a look at the glory of his newborn child.  There’s been story after story after story about Babyonce Blue Ivy, but here’s one small interesting detail that may have been overlooked: more than just celebrity was at play when it came to taking over Lenox Hill Hospital, Jay-Z may have put down some serious cash.

● Kristen Stewart has been named the new face of Balenciaga's newest perfume because, as the house's head designer Nicolas Ghesquière says, "she shares the radical spirit of Balenciaga." By which he surely means to say, perma-pout or not, at least she's vampire-blooded and sparkle-skinned now. [E!]