Jay-Z Secret Concert - Run This Town

Last night popped into a secret Jay-Z concert at the Blender Theater over on 23rd St. I just read about it online and decided to check it out after work. It ended up being a MySpace Music event.

Lots of fun, hung out with the band and DJ (Neil Armstrong from the 5th Platoon), and Jay did his thing...again. Although I must say it must get tiring rapping the same songs over and over again. When the concert started, I actually started to think to myself, "When is enough?" when it come to OD-ing on Jigga. And for the first half of the concert I barely moved, even though he was pointing out people in the crowd for not getting into the music. "This ain't no poetry reading!" he yelled.

It was towards the end that the music was better, as he pulled out some songs he never plays, such as Allure and Lucifer from The Black Album. Actually, Lucifer was the highlight for me.

If you can't seem to get enough of Jay-Z, he is performing on Sept 11th at Madison Square Garden and then on MTV's Video Music Awards on Sunday, Sept 13th along with Alicia Keys (to sing "Empire State of Mind" from Blueprint III).

Side note on the host of the VMAs this year - why Russell Brand again?? He is so irritating and NOBODY thought he was funny last year. MTV must be getting desparate. Thoughts??