Nicki’s “next ‘Monster’ moment” has been sort of a rap unicorn these past few years. Nicki proceeded to shred that track and make her gigantic rap career even more gigantic in 80 staggering seconds. I’ll stop there, because if I add any more then Onika will steal this article from me the way she stole “Monster” from Jay and Ye and Rozay simultaneously in 2010. Jay had his chance to appear on a big track with the female Hov, and he just kinda went, “ LOOOVE / I don’t get enough of it” and showed himself out of the room quietly.
This watch right here done phased blizzardsįlawless city with these flawless titties If you ain’t on the team, you playin’ for team D Slap these hoes on they ass like we birthing bitches, uh This every hood n----a dream, fantasizing about Nicki and Bey Nicki Minaj suddenly got Madonna’d, Cher’d, Aretha’d, and/or, um, Beyoncé’d: That came up on the stage’s screen, each letter big as a house, 12,000-point Beyoncé Font. And for a Jay Z fan, it’s interesting - he’s bigging up Kanye the way he bigs up Biggie. “’03 Bonnie & Clyde,” Jay and Bey’s first collaboration, is and was and always will be a Kanye West production. For a Yeezy fan, On the Run is huge. Jay, almost right off the bat, less than 10 minutes in, does Kanye’s “Diamonds From Sierra Leone (Remix),” the one where Hov got off his landmark line, “I’m not a businessman / I’m a business, man.” There are no fewer than half a dozen Kanye West songs or Kanye West samples. Here’s one, for example: The holy ghost of Yeezus is so in the house on On the Run. And here, in the 75,000-person sold-out Stade de France, Kanye was being invited over and over to perform in spirit. Seven years ago, Kanye rapped about not being invited to perform at his big brother Jay’s show at Madison Square. It’s that blah “’YE CAN WE GET MARRIED AT THE MALLLLLL” bit, but that part is also weirdly iconic, and Jay knows it. Jay plays “Paris” by himself, which almost feels like a slight, taking the biggest hit from the joint album that Kanye was kind enough to ask him to rap on. He is Kevin Garnetting arenas the world over, bringing a Matt Foley–level motivational speaker shtick and basically just hollering trite phrases that you somehow can’t not get pumped up about despite your better judgment. “WE DID IT!,” is another, as is, “OH SHE BAD FOR REAL!,” as is, “YOU CRAZY FOR THIS ONE PARIS!” Shawn Carter is now the adorable, almost-too-excitable-to-believe rap-dad. The aforementioned “IT’S TOO GOOD!” is only one. That shit cray.) Jay Z’s Exclamations Are PEAKING The Will Ferrell sample and the screwed “ ball so hard motherfuckers wanna fine me” intro of “N----s in Paris” has a Pavlovian effect on Kanye fans, Jay fans, and rap fans. Jay performs “Paris” in Paris, twice, ’cause, in his gleeful words, it’s “TOO GOOD!” He’s right. (Also he orders up a slew of mosh pits for the second run-through. You can very, very easily be not “into it” and you most likely still had/will have a good time with On the Run. Any broadcast that so immediately reminds you of the marvels and joys of pop and rap music, in such an efficient, explosive fashion, 2 absolutely qualifies as Event TV. It felt like we were huddling around the moon landing or something - which may sound dramatic, but was also seriously how it felt. with a bottle of wine and joined us to watch On the Run.
Our next-door neighbor, who my wife and I are very much still just getting to know, came over at 9 p.m.
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But if you’re already “into that,” the Jay Z and Beyoncé super-tour was going to be event TV no matter what.
Who knew that a televised Beyoncé and Jay Z concert, no matter how “significant” on paper, would be something so eminently Must-See, especially one that comes at the end of a three-month, 21-date tour that so many people already saw and read about on the Internet?Īside from FXX’s #everysimpsonsever marathon and the occasional award show, the non– Game of Thrones, non-#sports moments when everyone’s tuned to the same dial are few and far between.