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]

Jay-Z's 40/40 club in New York re-opened this week after a $10 million overhaul with a big party full of champagne and VIP-types like Alex Rodriguez, P Diddy and Alicia Keys.  A day later the health department found violations so bad it had to be shut down immediately. Those inside could stay, but others waiting in line were turned away.  What was so bad?

● Newly single and free-to-be, Katy Perry has been voted the "most cheat-worthy" celebrity by the fine users of AshleyMadison.com. Vacation queen Rihanna, Mila Kunis, Salma Hayek and Jennifer Aniston follow, and Sarah Palin comes in at 10. [Radar]

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.

● "Girls spit in my face, people were so mean to me, I'd cry every day," says Zooey Deschanel of her rough high school days. She is just so "adorkable" now, though, you really can't imagine, can you? [USA Today]

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.

On January 7, music fans around the world celebrated the birth of Jay-Z and Beyonce's baby daughter, who wasted no time in becoming the youngest person to ever appear on a Billboard-charting song. At a mere two days of age, Blue Ivy Carter contributed a vocal track to "Glory," an emotional tribute song her dad released on his website LifeandTimes.com. But while I'm sure nobody had anything but warm and fuzzy thoughts for the newborn, there were a few hurt feelings around Lenox Hill Hospital - which the music industry power couple allegedly put on lockdown - with stories of beefy security guards preventing some parents from visiting their own newborns in the neonatal ICU. Enter comedian Rob Ryan, who, on our suggestion, recut "Glory" into "Lenox Hill Glory" with lyrics that recognize the plight of those frustrated moms and pops. 

● Back from cell block 23, Lil Wayne is publishing a "revealing" prision memoir from diary entries written during his time at Rikers, titled Gone Till November and to be released November 28th through Grand Central Publishing. Alternative titles suggested: "Tell warden, kiss my ass." [GalleyCat]