Last night, Jay-z and his celebrity friends took over Madison Square Garden for the “Answer The Call” 911 Benefit Concert, raising over 1 million dollars for the families & victims of the 911 World Trade Center attacks. Special guest performers included Rihanna, Beyonce, Kanye West, Pharrell, Diddy, John Mayer, Kid Cudi and Mary J. Blige. I’m not a huge hip hop concert fan but this show was insane!
Check out the flicks, my highlights and a few videos below:
Rihanna performed “Run This Town” along with Kanye West. Nevermind her roaming around the stage with her cheeks hanging out :-P, she sound good (some may beg to differ).
Beyonce came out in true Sasha Fierce form and performed “Diva”. I wonder what she thought of Rihanna’s outfit hehehe. I can imagine that stare down backstage. When she walked off, Jay-z had twitter buzzing after he referred to her as “Beyonce Knowles” instead of “Carter”. She was a brand before she was his Wife! Remember?
Call me whatever you want but her performance swag makes me gag. It’s SICKENING! …in a good way
Kanye West performed “Can’t Tell Me Nothing” and “The Good Life”. Jigga know he could have called T-Pain and asked him to perform the hook on “Good Life”. (Too much to ask huh?)
Mary J. Blige came out to “Can’t Knock The Hustle” before going in to “The One” featuring Drake. Poor Drake couldn’t be there because he just had surgery on his knee but he was watching and tweeting from his hotel room:
My nurse telling me quiet down…I’m rapping as if I’m there and shit.
Mary still got it. She’s dancing like they just wrapped shooting on the rooftop with Meth…feel me? I’mma do my verse from right here!!
Was I the only one ROLLING when Mary was galloping across the stage like her hip was broke. She definitely still got it though! That performance was probably the highlight of my night.
Speaking of too much to ask, was I the only one waiting on an appearance by Amil when he went into “Can I get a “. “Jay-z know he could have got Amil the day off from K-Mart to come do her part” – via twitter. It was all jokes people (before I offend) but seriously that would have made my LIFE!!! I know me and my girl Christina was not the only ones rocking to Amil’s “All Money Is Legal” back in the day. hmph!
Other highlights included John Mayer, Kid Cudi (How did he get in them Jeans??) and Pharrell who dropped my favorite line from So Ambitous “The motivation for me was them telling me what I could not be” before leaving the stage. Jay also offered up some words of encouragement during a tribute to those who lost their loved ones on 9-11 “They believed they would weaken us. They were sorely mistaken. We stand here tonight even stronger.”
Great Concert! I’m hearing it will re-air on Fuse tomorrow (September 13th) at 5pm
formerly the Live Stream post
“Run This Town” and “Can’t Tell Me Nothing” Performance
Mary J. Blige “The One” Performance
Beyonce – Diva
Jay-z and Kid Cudi – Already Home & Heart Of The City
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September 13, 2009
Categories: Beyoncé Knowles, If I Were a Boy, Jay-Z, John Mayer, Kanye West, Kid Cudi, Madison Square Garden, Mary J. Blige . . Author: atliphoneblog . Comments: Leave a comment
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