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Synopsis: An intimate look at hip-hop artist Shawn Carter, Jay-Z, revealing the multiple Grammy Award winning artist as never before, from his background and rise to fame to the recording of his last album. The film chronicles the legendary concert of Jay-Z's performance at Madison Square Garden in November 2003. In an unprecedented event, a hip-hop artist sold out an arena in only two hours. Nearly one year later, fans and artists alike still reflect on this monumental musical night. The event was a spectacular culmination of Jay-Z's recording career prior to his self-proclaimed retirement from solo performing. Yet this one night also defined a musical generation, showcasing the evolution and reach of the world's most popular music genre. Guest performers included Jay-Z's closest friends and music industry colleagues: Beyoncé, Mary J. Blige, Missy Elliott, R. Kelly, Foxy Brown, Pharrell, and Questlove and The Illadelphonics along with appearances by hip hop icons Damon Dash, Rick Rubin, Slick R
Genre: Documentary
Production: Wilshire Court Productions
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.9
Metacritic:
59
R
Year:
2004
109 min
291 Views


undisputed, undefeated

heavyweight champion

of the world of hip-hop.

He is Jay-Z!

Put your motherfucking hands up!

Put your motherfucking hands up!

Ho v-I, baby!

What more can I say, New York?

I done said it all.

Done it all.

I'm gonna keep

my motherfucking jacket on.

Hey, I put together a special

evening for y'all tonight.

I brought y'all

some different sh*t.

I want y'all to see how far we

can take it as hip-hop artists.

I'm opening back up

this Madison Square Garden

for hip-hop.

Tonight is a charity night.

We still gonna have

a lot of fun, though.

Y'all leave this motherf***er

do your job.

I'm gonna do my job.

Tonight I brought you

with myself? uestlo ve

and the Illadelphonics.

Me myself.

I go by a couple names.

Sometimes they call me Jigga.

Sometimes they call me

Jigga Man.

Sometime they call me Ho v.

The One.

But tonight I'll be...

One more time for them.

One more time.

Sounds so beautiful.

Don't you agree?

I'm glad everybody

could be here with me tonight.

Y'all could have been anywhere

in the world.

But y'all at the Garden.

Let's get it popping.

Two, three, four!

Like I said, when you're making

your last album,

you want everything

to be perfect.

In order for everything

to be perfect,

everybody has to be focused.

You don't know how hard it is

to get everybody on

the same page at the same time

for one thing.

You had a meeting in the studio?

You stopped the music?

Don't ever stop the music.

Take that sh*t to the hallway,

to the office.

Anywhere.

Don't ever stop the music.

That's what pay the bills.

You can't stop the music.

We have nothing to meet about

if we don't have the music.

Don't ever stop the music.

Didn't know I was interfering

with the music.

Yeah, this nigga's

already crazy,

unfocused, video-gamed out.

Wake up the morning,

I see this nigga on the rap.

Trucks with four video games

in it.

He's going around

looking for old Atari games.

That's how he spends his day.

No, that was just set up

for the shoot.

Nigga, I seen all the ones

you had.

You had Coleco Vision.

All that sh*t.

But I bought that.

That wasn't for the shoot.

You been at that sh*t.

And the things you say

out your mouth.

"Yo, I just motherfucking

make beats

to support my video-game habit."

I was like, "Carline, get this

nigga on the phone right now."

I thought about that statement

for a minute.

And I looked at the date,

and it was the 15,

and we ain't make

one record together.

He's gonna play dirty.

He's not gonna do sh*t

until he done with everybody.

If it's done and it's hot,

he just ain't gonna make it.

He knows that.

You know that, right?

I'm on my last album.

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