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Jay-Z Seemingly Takes Dig at Drake, Kanye West and Nicki Minaj with Roots Picnic Freestyle
The hour-and-a-half set featured Philly guests and a four-minute acapella freestyle ahead of three sold-out Yankee Stadium shows.
- Jay-Z headlined the Roots Picnic in Philadelphia on Saturday, marking his first solo show since at least 2019, while debuting a new Afro that reinforced his status as a preeminent emcee of his generation.
- Backed by the Roots, Jay-Z reunited with the Philadelphia band 25 years after their 2001 MTV Unplugged collaboration for a career retrospective that blended New York and Philly culture across his catalog.
- Philly guests Meek Mill, Jazmine Sullivan, and State Property featured prominently; Sullivan performed "Need U Bad," while State Property reunited to perform "Roc the Mic" with their labelhead.
- A four-minute acapella freestyle delivered after "Hovi Baby" drove much of the performance's social takeaway, with Jay-Z appearing to address detractors via lyrics including "The jig is up, I."
- The performance precedes three sold-out shows at Yankee Stadium in July, two honoring the 25th and 30th anniversaries of his albums "The Blueprint" and "Reasonable Doubt.
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Night one of the 2026 Roots Picnic was definitely one for the history books! Jay-Z let his afro swing and the chopper sing with with a fierce freestyle fans think relentlessly roasted rap rivals like Drake, Kanye West, Nicki Minaj, Dame Dash, and Tory Lanez. Whew, nobody was marked safe! Source: Dimitrios Kambouris / Getty On Saturday, May 30, Jay-Z took the Roots Picnic stage with his co-headliners The Roots crew, and although they performed hi…
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Jay-Z disses Kanye West, Drake, Nicki Minaj, and more in new freestyle
Jay-Z came back with a vengeance, and a new Afro, at the Roots Picnic over the weekend. During his headlining set at the Roots Picnic in Philadelphia on Saturday, May 30, the rap icon used a fiery freestyle to take aim at several...
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