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DJ Hero Video Game TV Commercial Featuring Jay-Z and Eminem

Written by Denise on Thursday, October 29th, 2009 in Videos, Jay-Z, Eminem, Hip Hop, Gaming.

Check out Jay-Z and Eminem in the TV commercial for the music video game DJ Hero which released in stores on October 27, 2009. DJ Hero is developed by FreeStyleGames and published by Activision as a rhythm game similar to Guitar Hero which utilizes a turntable to simulate DJ’ing.

Picture of Jay-Z and Alicia Keys performing
Jay-Z and Alicia Keys performance date for the World Series is still on, but has been pushed up one day. This follows after rumors sparked that Alicia Keys and Jay-Z would not be performing for the Game 1 World Series after it was stated that President Barack Obama’s wife, first lady Michelle Obama, would be appearing for the first game.
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Photo of Alicia Keys and Jay-Z at VMAs
Rapper Jay-Z and singer Alicia Keys are set to take on the Yankee Stadium come October 28. The two will be performing their collaboration track “Empire State of Mind” before the Game 1 World Series. “Empire State of Mind” is the same track they performed during the VMA’s which resulted in them being invaded by female rapper Lil Mama.
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Photo of rapper Jay-Z performing on stage
Rapper Jay-Z has reportedly dominated the charts for the 11th time with his album, “The Blueprint 3″ based off preliminary sales numbers from Nielsen SoundScan. The album has pushed Jay-Z ahead of Rock-N-Roll legend Elvis Presley with an estimated 476,000 copies for his album sold since being released on Friday.
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Photo of rapper Wale
Rapper Jay-Z has found himself a supporting act and for his upcoming tour — and it’s Wale. The news of Wale being appointed as the supporting act for Jay-Z came from Rap-Up TV on September 13 during the MTV Video Music Awards.
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Photo of Beyonce Knowles and Jay-Z
Did Kanye West incident cause hip hop couple Jay-Z and Beyonce to get into a spat? Reportedly, Kanye West caused a little spat between Jay-Z and Beyonce after causing an uproar at MTV VMA’s on Sunday.
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Watch video of Jay-Z, Rihanna And Kanye West performing the song ‘Run This Town’ in a live performance on Jay Leno The Tonight Show.

Photo of Lil Mama Crashing Stage of Jay-Z, Alicia Keys Performance at MTV VMA 2009.
Lil Mama claims she mean’t no “disrespect” towards Jay-Z or Alicia Keys when she crashed on stage during their performance at the MTV Video Music Awards (VMA’s).
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Photo of Lil Mama Crashing Stage of Jay-Z, Alicia Keys Performance at MTV VMA 2009.
Lil’ Mama, one of the judges on MTV’s America’s Best Dance Crew, pulls one of Kanye West’s stage crashing moves as she crashes a performance by rapper Jay-Z and singer Alicia Keys.
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Photo of T-Pain and Jay-Z on stage
It took the ‘Big Ass Chain‘ wearing T-Pain a minute to respond to Jay-Z after the release of his song ‘D.O.A. (Death of Autotune)’ which makes mention of T-Pain’s name and takes a jab at artists and other music producers who rely on the musical pitch correcting plug-in (Auto-Tune) by Antares Audio Technologies which helped catapult T-Pain’s career which started a trend of hundreds and possibly thousands to follow in his footstep utilizing the plug-in in Hip-Hop music.
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