Jay-Z opened his Yankee Stadium run Friday night with Beyoncé cutting his hair on video, with some fans saying that may mean a new album is to come from the rapper
Jay-Z kicked off three nights at Yankee Stadium on Friday, and before he rapped a single bar, Beyoncé cut his hair.
The show opened with a video on the ballpark’s scoreboard showing the couple sitting in the empty stands while Beyoncé sheared off the afro her husband had been wearing since the Roots Picnic in Philadelphia in June.
When the 56-year-old walked out moments later, Roc-A-Fella diamond raised over his head and the low Caesar cut from his ‘Reasonable Doubt’ days was back. The news follows Blue Ivy Carter’s Hollywood ambitions being revealed.
Fans took it as more than just a haircut.
“Coincidentally he takes off the dreads and cut off his hair in 2026. Oh okay,” one user wrote on X.
Another penned, “JayZ always cut his hair when a new album is on the way dumb a**”
“I’m sorry but Nicki better be in the studio because JayZ is coming. He cut his hair and Bey onnat stage with him . Oop,” a third added.
Jay-Z has long told audiences that a haircut was the surest sign a new album was on the way.
He grew his hair out between projects and cut it when he went back to work. His last solo record was 4:44 in 2017, and within minutes of Friday’s video, social media was full of people declaring a new album a done deal.
The weekend residency, billed as “Jay-Z 30,” marks 30 years since Reasonable Doubt, his 1996 debut, and 25 since The Blueprint.
Beyoncé did more than handle the clippers. She joined her husband onstage for the opener, Can’t Knock the Hustle, singing the hook that Mary J. Blige recorded on the original.
Blige could not make it to the Bronx because she was performing her own residency show Friday night.
Nas came out for Dead Presidents. And Blue Ivy Carter, the duo’s 14-year-old daughter, played piano on ‘Feelin’ It’ while her father wiped away tears.
Jay-Z has said nothing about an album, and the video could just as easily have been staging for a show built on looking backward. But a crowd that has waited nearly a decade for a follow-up to ‘4:44’ was happy to read into it, and by the time Beyoncé’s vocals hit on the first song, the stadium had its answer for the night, if not for the year.
The residency continues through Sunday.
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