Jay-Z brings out Rihanna and Beyoncé after delayed start at Yankee Stadium

Jay-Z brought a parade of guests to the signifier Sunday nighttime astatine New York’s Yankee Stadium, wherever the seasoned rapper closed a three-night basal marking the 30th day of his debut album, “Reasonable Doubt,” and the 25th day of his commercialized breakthrough, “The Blueprint.”

Rihanna joined Jay-Z for “Run This Town,” past stuck astir to bash her “Bitch Better Have My Money,” according to reports successful Variety and the New York Times. Jay-Z’s wife, Beyoncé, came retired to bash her “Drunk successful Love.” And Pharrell Williams performed respective songs, including “I Just Wanna Love U (Give It 2 Me),” which Williams produced arsenic fractional of the Neptunes. Other guests astatine the amusement included Usher, Jeezy, Clipse, The-Dream, Jadakiss, Swizz Beatz, Jermaine Dupri, Teyana Taylor and Fat Joe.

Though it was expected to statesman astir 9 p.m., Sunday’s performance reportedly started aft midnight owed to what Jay-Z described arsenic a assemblage surge.

“It was similar 10,000 radical outside, and they closed each the doors and idiosyncratic rushed the doors,” the rapper said, according to Variety. “I’m truly atrocious for the inconvenience but I had to marque definite everybody’s OK.”

Variety said the amusement ended astatine 3 a.m.

Sunday’s amusement followed 2 earlier Yankee Stadium gigs successful which Jay-Z brought retired Beyoncé and their daughter, Blue Ivy Carter, arsenic good arsenic Nas, Eminem, Memphis Bleek, Jaz-O and Slick Rick.

In September, Jay-Z is scheduled to execute stadium concerts successful London and Paris up of an Oct. 23 day astatine Inglewood’s SoFi Stadium.