Jay-Z played Carnegie Hall last night to rave reviews. Stereogum has photos up from the show along with some videos. Billboard has the setlist. He also performed "Glory" and showed the true emotion of the song to the entire audience: "I didn't think I was going to make it through that one," he said, sounding [...]
Last night, Jay-Z played a benefit for United Way of New York City and The Shawn Carter Scholarship Foundation at NYC's Carnegie Hall - he plays again tonight - and though most of the public was priced out by ticket prices in the hundreds and thousands, there were still enough Elliott Wilson s and Jon Caramanicas there to give the rest of us heavy FOMO. Amongst the highlights: Jay-Z and Nas doing Illmatic 's "N.Y. State Of Mind," Jay rapping a medley of Reasonable Doubt classics from the balcony during the encore [...]

Jay-Z w/ orchesta, Alicia Keys & Nas @ Carnegie Hall - 2/6 Fans of disposable income -- earning it, spending it, rapping about it, listening to someone rap about it -- had much to cheer about during this concert, the highest-profile hip-hop show ever at Carnegie Hall. And there was also the matter of the income disposal, or in this case, donation: this concert was the first of a pair (the second is Tuesday night) benefitting the United Way of New York City and the Shawn Carter Scholarship Foundation, the charity [...]
Last night, Jay-Z performed the first of two planned benefit shows at New York's Carnegie Hall, backed by an orchestra and the Illadelphonics, an ensemble featuring Questlove and Bilal. Liza Minnelli was there. Over the ... read more »
![Jay-Z performs 'Glory' and many more at Carnegie Hall [Watch]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/4043032_lg.jpg)
Jay-Z performed a charity show at New York’s Carnegie Hall last night, featuring a 30-piece orchestra (which included The Roots) and guest appearances from the likes of Nas. You can watch a few of the tracks he performed below, like 'N.Y. State Of Mind' which he performed with Nas, and the first ever live performance of 'Glory' (which he wrote for/about his daughter Blue Ivy Carter). If you're lucky enough to be going to the second of [...]
Because Jay-Z performing "Glory" for the first time last night wasn't enough, he also brought out some very ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/news/ video-jay-z-brings-out-nas-at- carnegie-hall-to-per/61550/