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Jay-Z and Alicia Keys Rock Yankee Stadium
Originally posted 10/30/2009 08:15AM
Jay-Z prowled the outfield stage in a Yankees cap and varsity jacket, rapping his New York anthem, while Keys belted out the chorus, first while seated at her piano and then from center stage.
Cameras caught players from both dugouts bobbing their heads and enjoying the show, and the Yankees seemed unperturbed by Jay-Z's somewhat controversial lyric, "I made the Yankee hat more famous than a Yankee can."
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Jay-Z, Alicia Keys to Perform at World Series
Originally posted 10/26/2009 05:55PM
Guess which team they're rooting for!
New York natives Jay-Z and Alicia Keys will perform their hit single "Empire State of Mind" before game 1 of the World Series on Wednesday at Yankee Stadium in New York. Following their duet, Keys will perform the National Anthem.
"As a die-hard Yankee fan, I'm honored to perform a song that celebrates the greatness of New York in one of our city's most important landmarks, Yankee Stadium," Jay-Z said in a statement Monday.
The New York Yankees will face off against the Philadelphia Phillies in the World Series, which will air on FOX (7:30 p.m. ET).
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Couples Watch: Beyoncé & Jay-Z, Paris & Doug . . .
Originally posted 10/05/2009 06:00AM
• After taking in the Grizzly Bear concert recently at the Williamsburg Waterfront Park, Jay-Z and Beyoncé were back in the Brooklyn neighborhood – and hipster hangout – for dinner. The two were spotted dining out at Marlow & Sons, where they sat "alone, cuddling in a corner," a source tells us.
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Couples Watch: Beyoncé & Jay-Z, Paris & Doug ...
Originally posted 10/05/2009 06:00AM
• After taking in the Grizzly Bear concert recently at the Williamsburg Waterfront Park, Jay-Z and Beyoncé were back in the Brooklyn neighborhood – and hipster hangout – for dinner. The two were spotted dining out at Marlow & Sons, where they sat "alone, cuddling in a corner," a source tells us.
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Jay-Z Takes Down the King
Originally posted 09/17/2009 10:30AM
It's official: Jay-Z is bigger than Elvis Presley.
The Brooklyn rapper has scored his 11th No. 1 on Billboard's album charts by selling 476,000 copies of The Blueprint 3.
That means that Jay-Z, 39, has surpassed The King to become history's solo artist with the most No. 1 albums.
PEOPLE.com sought comment from Presley, but he hasn't been spotted in an Appalachian-area 7-Eleven for weeks.
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Jay-Z Was Addicted to Thrill of Drug Dealing
Originally posted 09/09/2009 01:40PM
It wasn't the crack. It was the job.
"You become addicted to the feeling, the uncertainty and adrenaline and danger of that lifestyle," Jay-Z tells Oprah Winfrey in the October issue of O Magazine of his former life as a drug dealer.
Jay-Z, real name Shawn Corey Carter, was only 13 when he started selling crack in his crime-plagued neighborhood in Brooklyn, and yet it never dawned on him that his situation was unusual, because anyone who became successful never returned to the projects to share his or her wisdom.
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Jay-Z Knows His Last-Minute Wedding Offended Some
Originally posted 09/03/2009 01:30PM
What's the blueprint for keeping your wedding a secret? Just ask Jay-Z – Oprah did.
"Late planning!" he tells Winfrey in an interview for the October issue of O magazine.
Although his marriage to Beyoncé last year wasn't a complete secret – the couple created a buzz when they took out a marriage license days before their private ceremony – he says "very few" people knew about it.
"The sad part is that we offended some," Jay-Z, 39, admits of the last-minute event. But, "people who love you understand," he says. "Because at the end of the day, it's your day."
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VIDEO POLL: Rihanna, Kanye West & Jay-Z 'Run This Town'
Originally posted 08/20/2009 03:55PM
In a sea of flames, armor and a lot of black leather, Rihanna goes to battle alongside Kanye West and Jay-Z in the formerly retired rapper's new music video, "Run This Town."
The song, which is the first single off of Jay-Z's upcoming Blueprint 3 album, has Rihanna proclaiming that "victory's within the mile." But if you had to go to war, who would you want fighting on your side?
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Rihanna, Jay-Z, Kanye West to Help Launch New Jay Leno Show
Originally posted 08/07/2009 07:00AM
The Sept. 14 launch of the new prime-time The Jay Leno Show will not only bring a leaner, meaner host – who recently dropped 12 lbs. – but a hip guest roster of Jay-Z, Rihanna and Kanye West, NBC has announced.
The R&B trio – considered the top names in the genre – are scheduled to perform "Run This Town" from Jay-Z's latest album, The Blueprint 3"].
For Rihanna, the appearance will mark one of her first major public performances since the February assault against her by her then-boyfriend, Chris Brown, whose sentencing has been rescheduled for Aug. 27.
– Stephen M. Silverman
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Couples Watch: Beyoncé & Jay-Z, Bachelorette Jillian & Ed
Originally posted 08/03/2009 06:00AM
• Beyoncé, enjoying a late-night dinner with hubby Jay-Z at LAVO Italian Restaurant and Nightclub in Sin City. The low-key couple, dressed down in jeans and sweatshirts, ate in a corner booth at 11:30 p.m., following her concert at Encore Las Vegas. The next night, the rapper returned to the East Coast for his 80 minute headlining performance at the All Points West Music & Arts Festival at Liberty State Park in Jersey City, N.J. Meanwhile, Courtney Love was spotted backstage at the festival with daughter Frances Bean, popping her head into the press tent but then getting camera shy and running away.
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