Jay-Z's Tour Band: Behind The Scenes

CHECK THE DATES!

Oct 09 State College, PA Penn State/Bryce Jordan Center
Oct 10 Cincinnati, OH N Kentucky U/Bank of Kentucky Center
Oct 13 Edmonton, AB Rexall Place
Oct 14 Calgary, AB Pengrowth Saddledome
Oct 15 Kelowna, BC Prospera Place
Oct 16 Vancouver, BC General Motors Place
Oct 17 Seattle, WA KeyArena
Oct 21 Ypsilanti, MI Eastern Michigan U/Convocation Center
Oct 23 Philadelphia, PA Wachovia Center (Powerhouse)
Oct 24 Providence, RI Dunkin Donuts Center
Oct 25 Amherst, MA U of Mass/Mullins Center
Oct 27 Baltimore, MD 1st Mariner Arena
Oct 28 Columbus, OH Ohio State/ Value City Arena the
Schottenstein Center
Oct 29 London, ON John Labatt Centre
Oct 30 Montreal, QC Bell Centre
Oct 31 Toronto, ON Air Canada Centre
Nov 01 Ottawa, ON Scotiabank Place
Nov 07 Fresno, CA Fresno State/Save Mart Center
Nov 12 Champaign, IL University of Illinois/Assembly Hall
Nov 19 Albuquerque, NM Tingley Coliseum
Nov 20 El Paso, TX U of Texas at El Paso/Don Haskins Ctr
Nov 21 Lubbock, TX United Spirit Arena
Nov 22 Austin, TX U of Texas at Austin/Frank Erwin Center

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Jay-Z Greatest-Hits Album Planned; 'Crispy Benjamins' Mystery Explained

MTV Reports: By now, you might have heard about "Crispy Benjamins," a brand-new song that (supposedly) samples ultra-quirky musician Regina Spektor.

On the surface, "Benjamins" seems almost too odd to be true (despite the fact that Jay has spent recent months big-upping folks like Grizzly Bear), but the song was announced via an official-looking press release, which hinted that it would see the light of day on a reissue of The Blueprint 3, which was "scheduled for release in 2009."

Somewhat understandably, news of the song — which was, according to the press release, produced by someone named Mirk from the New Familiar Music Group — spread like wildfire across the parched topiary of the blogosphere, and by the end of Wednesday, it was taken for gospel. Despite, you know, anyone bothering to check if it were true or not.

Turns out, it was. But it also wasn't.

Seems like the press release — which bore the name (and contact info) of Jive Records A&R manager Ant Rich — wasn't actually approved or released by Rich. We reached out to Rich for comment on the matter, and he was pretty eager to explain himself.
"Mirk from the New Familiars produced a track (which I co-produced) that has a Regina Spektor sample in it ... which is called 'Crispy Benjamins,' " Rich told MTV News by e-mail. "Jay-Z purchased the track for The Blueprint 3, [but it] wound up not making the album. I was told by Jay Brown [who does A&R for Jay-Z's Roc Nation imprint] that there was potential for the song to be used on a re-release. At some point, a press release was sent about the track using my contact information. Neither Mirk nor myself had ANYTHING to do with the press release. We are currently trying to find out who sent it out so we can clear up this matter."
MTV News attempted to reach Brown for comment, but those attempts proved unsuccessful, which means that while "Crispy Benjamins" seems to be legit, it's not clear where it might be released. A spokesperson for Atlantic Records — which distributed The Blueprint 3 — could not be reached for comment, and a spokesperson for Jay-Z told MTV News she was unaware of any plans to reissue the album. The spokesperson added that the rapper will be releasing a greatest-hits album through his former label Def Jam. And the album — Hov's third greatest-hits go-round — will "supposedly" hit stores November 24.

At press time, there was no word whether "Benjamins" will appear as a new cut on that greatest-hits package. And with that, we bring to close perhaps the most convoluted news story in recent memory.

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Jay-Z Get's Silly and Kicks Freestyle on German TV!

Jay-Z recently hit German TV Total in his international promotion of The Blueprint 3, and like Eminem before him (included), he got into a funny interview with the host, and did a freestlye over some non-rap, yodeling beats LOLL....Jay-Z says "let me take my time man." His expression's are priceless! The shows outside the US are so silly!

A MUST SEE!

Producer, NO I.D, Sample Lover or Thief? YOU BE THE JUDGE...

SAMPLE LOVER OR THIEF?

Original Sample from "Run This Town" (Prod. By MLVK Jr.)



As u can see the only thing he sampled was that Guitar riff from the intro...
Listen below to hear how similar it is...




Original sample from "A Star Is Born"




Jay-Z - A Star is Born (feat. J. Cole) - 'The Blueprint 3' 2009




Now here's the Original sample from "DOA" ("Prod. By No I.D.")

This is pretty much 90% of what we hear on DOA....he didn't rearrange the track...the only difference between this and DOA is Jay's lyrics



Jay-Z, DOA


He did the same with "Success"




Jay Z ft. Nas- Success