Jay-Z Closes JAŸ-Z30 With Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg and Too $hort, and Tells SoFi to “Question Everything”

Jay-Z turned the last night of his stadium run into a West Coast summit, then used the mic to take on the internet. On Saturday (Oct. 24) he closed JAŸ-Z30 with the second of two sold-out nights at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, Calif., where Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg joined him for “The Next Episode,” “California Love,” “Nuthin’ but a ‘G’ Thang” and “Still D.R.E.,” Pitchfork reports. Hov famously ghostwrote that last one for Dre.

Too $hort kicked the night off with a medley of Jay-Z’s “Blow the Whistle” freestyle and his own original. Watch the original video below. Snoop also came out early for “Murder Was the Case,” Complex notes.

Friday’s opener (Oct. 23) had its own guest list. Scarface rapped “This Can’t Be Life” and “Mind Playing Tricks on Me,” and Blue Ivy Carter played piano on “The Story of O.J.” and “Dead Presidents,” per Billboard. The set ended with “God Did,” with DJ Khaled and John Legend onstage, on the same day Legend’s Pharrell-produced album Muse came out.

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The most pointed moment came when Jay-Z answered criticism of the tour, including chatter about cheap resale tickets and claims the stadium was empty. Pitchfork has the full quote:

People will tell you that nobody was in here tonight, but you got eyes, you can see. People will tell you that the music wasn’t great, but you got ears.

Jay-Z, onstage at SoFi Stadium (Oct. 24), Pitchfork

He finished the thought with a warning: “You gotta understand, you gotta question everything in this world of AI.” He also paid tribute to Nipsey Hussle in the late rapper’s hometown, putting a black-and-white photo of him on the screen during “Hussle & Motivate” and folding “Last Time That I Checc’d” into “On to the Next One.”

SoFi is also the stadium that will host Super Bowl LXI next February, which is why every guest list was read for clues. Billboard noted that Jay-Z did not formally announce a halftime booking during the closer. Puck reported on Oct. 20 that he picked himself, a report we covered that neither the NFL nor Roc Nation had confirmed as of Saturday.

JAŸ-Z30 celebrated 30 years of Reasonable Doubt and 25 of The Blueprint. It began with a set at the Roots Picnic in late May, took in three nights at Yankee Stadium in July, then London and Paris in September, Billboard says. It broke Yankee Stadium’s ticket sales record, Pitchfork adds, and sits alongside the HBO docuseries JAŸ-Z in 8 with Rick Rubin.

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