Jay Z Opens Barclays Center
Jay Z ushered in the grand opening of Brooklyn’s first stadium the Barclays Center on Friday night to a sold out crowd of 18,000. The stadium in the heart of Brooklyn is the hometown of Jay and is the new home to the Brooklyn Nets who Jay is part owner of. Friday’s performance is one of eight that Jay is headling through October 6 in his new “house”. Opening show with video footage of Brooklyn greats like Mike Tyson were shown to the tunes of “We Live In Brooklyn Baby” then Jay took the stage performing “Where I’m From” and “Brooklyn Go Hard”. Jay told the crowd “I’ve performed in a lot places but nothing feels like tonight”. During the show Jay also took the time out to honor his late friend and fellow Brooklyn native Notorious B.I.G while his song "Juicy" played telling the crowd “sing loud so he can hear you in heaven” as well as offering a moment of silence. Then surprisingly Brooklynite rap legend Big Daddy Kane took the stage to perform 3 of his hits with J...