Jay-Z & Kanye West

Jay-Z & Kanye West, At last count, Jay-Z and Kanye West performed their hit single “N—-s In Paris” 11 times during one of the final stops on their Watch the Throne tour, and months later the video has finally premiered. The dark, apocalyptic clip features live concert footage, spliced with some dynamic imagery and even a slightly reworked beat.

Filmed in part during the run of Throne shows at the Staples Center in Los Angeles – additional footage, one can assume, was shot during a casted performance, unless the Staples crowd was 85 percent female models – the clip captures both the loose jocularity of ‘Ye and Jay and the electric energy that coursed through the venue when “Paris” leapt from the speakers (many, many times). West fills the video with eye-catching kaleidoscopic effects, creating dizzying visuals that fold the audience, the stage and everything else in upon themselves, making fractals upon fractals. No wonder the clip is preceded by an epilepsy warning.

Given the size and scope of both the song and the artists performing it, the “Paris” video is also loaded with lasers, prowling panthers, pop-up-book cityscapes and the aforementioned models. Shoot, even producer Hit-Boy makes a one-second cameo. It’s a head-spinning, pulse-quickening mixture of imagery and movement, of sight and sound – an experience unlike any other live clip.

Jay-Z Carnegie Hall

Jay-Z Carnegie Hall, Jay-Z has seen it all and done it all — or so we thought. Just when it looked like there was no new ground for Hov to cover, the multiplatinum rap superstar announced he would be performing a pair of shows at New York’s famed Carnegie Hall.

For the first time ever, Jay will hit the Carnegie Hall stage on Monday night (February 6), followed by a second show on Tuesday, and it’s all for a good cause. Proceeds from the privately sold premium-priced tickets will go to Jigga’s Shawn Carter Scholarship Foundation and the United Way in an effort to put low-income New York City students in a position to attend college.

When Hov first announced the concert dates back in December, he told MTV News that he wasn’t sure what the night would bring, but Jay-Z fans know the rap mogul often has a trick or two up his Maison Martin Margiela sleeves. Here are some things we hope to see:

“Glory” featuring B.I.C.
Two days after wife Beyoncé gave birth to the couple’s daughter, Blue Ivy Carter, Big Poppa Jay dropped “Glory,” a dedication track to daddy’s little girl. The Pharrell-produced track featured the “Streets Is Watching” rapper like we’ve never seen him as he rhymed about the joys of fatherhood. Hopefully, Jay will perform the track … and maybe even roll out Baby Blue in a stroller for her first public appearance? It would be an incredible, if highly unlikely moment.

Beyoncé
“Crazy in Love,” “Déjà Vu,” “Upgrade U,” Jay and Queen B have no shortage of hit records to perform. Granted, Beyoncé is probably on some type of musical maternity leave (and deservedly so). But it sure would be nice to see B make her first post-birth appearance onstage and hand-in-hand with hubby Hov.

“N—as in Paris” — Multiple Times
People love Paris. While out on the Watch the Throne Tour, Jay-Z and Kanye West would perform their fan-favorite “N—as in Paris” multiple times each night. On the final stop in Vancouver, the duo rocked the song a record-breaking 11 times. So how many times will he rock the song at Carnegie Hall? “We have to do a rendition of ‘N—as in Paris’ in Carnegie Hall; it just has to go down,” Jay laughed back in December. “I ain’t think about that. That’ll be great.”