Large-scale Cork show proves triumph for rap legend

Jay Z album sales increased five-fold in HMV this week after he rocked the boat at Glastonbury.

The Brooklyn rapper will now play two Irish dates in June.

Given his self-promoted position as the saviour of hip-hop, Afro American culture and the third world’s water supply, you’d have thought that Jay Z would...

Jay Z’s retirement proves to be short-lived with the hip-hop superstar lining up a visit to the Dublin Point.

It’s an unlikely enough combination, yet somehow this improbable mash-up seems to work.

If this album really does mark the fading to black of one of hip-hop’s true heavyweights then at least we can take some consolation in the fact that the...

Good and instantly accessible hip-hop

This album is a good solid groove and confirms Jay’s position in hip-hop’s premiership.