Jay-Z

By Cities of the Plain Performance of the Weekend goes to one Jay-Z. Hova was in a difficult position, filling in for the Beastie Boys, as at least some portion of the crowd had bought their tickets for the original headliners. While he didn't bring out a bunch of guests as he has done in the past at shows in New York, h...

By Pop Tarts Suck Toasted 2. Kanye West; The spectacle alone should be worth the price of admission, but I can literally rap along with just about every song Kanye has ever released. I am a huge fan but I am also terrified of hip-hop shows thanks to the awful Wu Tang performance I saw in 1996. From what I've heard you don't n...

By Pop Tarts Suck Toasted Feb. ???: Jay-Z The Blueprint 3 Big Boi Sir Luscious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty Massive Attack Weather Underground Neil Young The Riverboat March: Best of the Rest of March: Mar. 3rd: Neko Case Middle Cyclone U2 No Line on the Horizon Marissa Nadler Little Hells

By Pop Tarts Suck Toasted I believe this is the highest charting record to appear on my list though I'm not gonna go and do the research to verify that. Instead I'm gonna say that there was very little popular music worth listening to this year, but Lil' Wayne certainly was and it was definitely popular. He went from bei...

By PopSense At Kanye’s concert that I went to, Jay-Z showed up at the end. And we all screamed and cried and whatnot. Wait a minute. Kanye looks up to Jay-Z, everyone flipped when Jay-Z showed up. Does that mean that…maybe Jay-Z saved hip-hop? Let’s see… He released his first album over a decade ago and has in...