Rapper Jay-Z descended on Oakland's Oracle Arena last night for a much-anticipated show with queen of R&B Mary J. Blige and over-hyped "ghetto falsetto" opener the American Dream. (How the "ghetto falsetto" craze got started is really anybody's guess, but please, someone, make it stop).
Irate callers to Chuy Gomez's morning show on 106 KMEL did the hatchet job on famed East Coast rapper Jay-Z, whose much-anticipated concert with R&B megastar Mary J. Blige did not go down at Oakland's Oracle Arena last night.
The king of rap and the queen of hip-hop soul take the stage at the Oracle Arena -- finally. It was worth the wait. Post your own thoughts on our Concert Blog
While Jay-Z and Beyonce have yet to publicly acknowledge their April 4 wedding in New York, it now appears as though they're confirming the union, in a nonverbal, but very official, sort of way.
WHITNEY HOUSTON has fuelled reports of a romance with sex-tape star RAY J by flying all the way to Las Vegas just to hear the R+B singer belt out the American
The Player of the Year and Coach of the Year on USA TODAY's 2008 All-USA boys basketball team share a home state and a family tie. Player of the Year Samardo Samuel (St. Benedict's Prep, Newark, N.J.) was coached by Dan Hurley, the son of Coach of the Year Bob Hurley (St. Anthony's, Jersey City).
The Jay-Z/ Mary J. Blige extravaganza due at the Palace of Auburn Hills this week is the latest milestone in what has been a steady rise for hip-hop touring. The free-for-all that marked hip-hop's woolly early days has been streamlined and polished, with cues taken from the showbiz-savvy productions that have long enticed fans of rock, R&B and pop.
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