Jay-Z To Buy Shares In The New York Yankees?

US rapper Jay-Z, who will headline the Glastonbury festival on Saturday (June 28th), is considering a share deal in the New York Yankees baseball team.

The rapper is understood to have made details of the deal public in an interview with Time Out.

Jay-Z, whose real name is Shawn Carter, already owns the New Jersey Nets basketball team and was recently linked to a financial deal that involved Arsenal Football Club.

Speaking to Time Out, he said: "I had invested in the Nets, and they (Arsenal bosses) asked me if I was interested in investing. But I get that from time to time.

"Someone told me yesterday that someone else had a piece of the New York Yankees - 'We wanna talk to you, yadda yadda yadda.'

"I mean, I love the Yankees so I'm in the middle of following that through, but sometimes it comes to be nothing," he said.

"That (Arsenal) was one of the times it came to nothing."

Carter's business empire also includes his own clothing range, record label - Roc-A-Fella – and perfume line.