{"id":288693,"date":"2026-07-07T00:08:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T00:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/288693\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T00:08:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T00:08:17","slug":"news-12-bronx-hip-hop-pioneer-discusses-jay-zs-legacy-ahead-of-the-rappers-shows-at-yankee-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/288693\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Hip Hop Pioneer Discusses Jay Zs Legacy Ahead Of The Rappers Shows At Yankee Stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Hip-hop legend and Brooklyn-born artist, Jay Z, is set to perform three shows at Yankee Stadum from July 10 through July 12.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The trio of shows will honor his best-selling albums, &#8220;Reasonable Doubt&#8221; and &#8220;The Blueprint.&#8221; This year, Jay Z is celebrating 30 years of &#8220;The Blueprint.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">News 12 spoke with Grandmaster Caz ahead of the excitement.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;Just having him back in the borough is a great thing for the culture!&#8221; said Grandmaster Caz. &#8220;He&#8217;s already set a standard and a bar that people are still trying to reach!&#8221; <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Jay-Z is expected to unveil a surprise at Sunday night&#8217;s show. News 12 asked Grandmaster Caz his thoughts on the surprise.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;Well, the biggest surprise is that I&#8217;m going to be there!&#8221; he said. &#8220;As far as surprises&#8230; there&#8217;s no telling.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hip-hop legend and Brooklyn-born artist, Jay Z, is set to perform three shows at Yankee Stadum from July&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-288693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}