Blog: Idolator

There couldn't have been a more fitting venue for the series of listening sessions held for Watch the Throne , the highly anticipated collaboration album from reigning hip-hop heavyweights Jay-Z and Kanye West . After a lengthy wait outside in the 90-degree heat, a veritable mix of journalists, models, industry types and stars mingled in the American Museum for Natural History's Rose Center for Earth and Space, sipping champagne and noshing on mini lobster rolls with imagery of all things otherworldly (planets! stars! black holes!) in view. And we were there. [...]