Well, baseball’s street credibility just improved by about 20%. True, had Jay-Z performed “Can’t Knock the Hustle” with Mary J. Blige before the ’96 series, then it would have been really cool, but I guess this sanitized Hip-Hop will have to do.
Jay-Z and Alicia Keys to Perform Prior to Game One of the World Series
↵Check the press release:
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↵New York natives JAY-Z and Alicia Keys, two of the most successful recording artists in the world, will perform their hit single “Empire State of Mind,” from JAY-Z’s #1 album The Blueprint 3, on the field at Yankee Stadium prior to Game One of the 2009 World Series on Wednesday, October 28. Following their joint performance, Keys will sing the national anthem.
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↵You can listen to the song here. And regardless of what you or I think of the song, with a stadium full of New Yorkers eager to bask in the restored glory of the Yanks, this should set the stage quite nicely.
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