{"id":760276,"date":"2026-07-13T12:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T12:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/760276\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T12:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T12:00:09","slug":"jay-z-addresses-delay-during-final-yankee-stadium-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/760276\/","title":{"rendered":"Jay-Z Addresses Delay During Final Yankee Stadium Concert"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAfter fans waited more than three hours for the finale in Jay-Z<\/a>\u2018s three-night stand at Yankee Stadium on Sunday, the rapper addressed the extensive delay early in the show, telling those in the crowd there were thousands of people outside and that the show was pushed back to back to avoid crowd safety issues.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cLet me explain the delay to you guys,\u201d Jay said after finally kicking off the show after 12 a.m. ET Monday. \u201cIt was like 10,000 people outside, and we closed all the doors, and somebody rushed the door. They closed the door for you guys\u2019 safety and everyone\u2019s safety outside. There\u2019s 10,000 people outside; I don\u2019t want to start the music and people get trampled. I\u2019m really sorry for the inconvenience, but I had to make sure everyone was OK. I appreciate your patience.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tInside the stadium, concertgoers were frustrated by the delay but an incredibly enthusiastic audience once the show got underway. The vast majority of the fans stayed through most of the show, which wrapped around 2:45 a.m. ET, with celebratory fireworks going off over Yankee Stadium.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe delay marked a rocky start for what had been the most hotly-anticipated of Jay-Z\u2019s historic three-night hometown stand at Yankee Stadium. Fans had been anxiously awaiting what the hip-hop icon had in store after already bringing out Beyonc\u00e9, Nas and Alicia Keys during night one and Eminem for night two.<\/p>\n

\n\tSpecial guests on the final night\u2019s show, dubbed \u201cExtra Innings,\u201d included Rihanna, who joined Jay-Z on \u201cRun This Town\u201d and then offered a solo rendition of \u201cBitch Better Have My Money,\u201d making a rare concert appearance; Beyonc\u00e9, who performed \u201cDrunk In Love\u201d near the end of the show; Teyana Taylor, joining Jay-Z on \u201cCan\u2019t Knock the Hustle\u201d; Usher; and Pharrell Williams.<\/p>\n

\n\tConcerts have been a bit of a rarity for Jay-Z since wrapping his 4:44 Tour back in 2017. The Yankee Stadium shows are a full-circle moment for him, a celebration of the 30th anniversary of his seminal album Reasonable Doubt and the 25th anniversary of The Blueprint. <\/p>\n

\n\tWhile the Yankee Stadium concerts have extra meaning taking place in his hometown, Jay will also be performing in London<\/a>, Paris and Los Angeles<\/a> in the months ahead. He\u2019s also the subject of a Rick Rubin-directed docuseries<\/a> set to hit HBO this fall. <\/p>\n

\n\tJuly 13, 12:55 a.m. This story has been updated with more details from the Yankee Stadium concert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After fans waited more than three hours for the finale in Jay-Z\u2018s three-night stand at Yankee Stadium on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":760277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88,18207],"class_list":["post-760276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-jay-z"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=760276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/760277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}