
Jay-Z's final Yankee Stadium show started four hours late after a security breach. Beyoncé, Rihanna, Usher, and others joined him onstage.
Jay-Z closed his three-night Yankee Stadium residency early Monday morning, hours later than planned, after a security breach delayed the show by more than four hours.
The gates were supposed to open at 8 p.m. Sunday. Instead, the rapper took the stage around 12:15 a.m. Roc Nation and Yankee Stadium said in a joint statement that "hundreds of individuals in large groups – who did not have tickets to tonight's performance – stormed over peaceful ticketholders, and in some cases, breached security." That forced an extended closure of the gates.
For the fans who stayed, the payoff was a parade of surprise guests. Beyoncé joined her husband onstage. So did Rihanna, Usher, Pharrell Williams, Jeezy, and Fat Joe. The lineup read like a who's-who of the last two decades of hip-hop and R&B, a fitting cap for a rapper who has spent that time as one of the genre's defining figures.
The show was the final date of a residency that drew tens of thousands across three nights. Jay-Z has not announced additional New York dates.
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