Jay-Z’s third and most hotly anticipated concert at Yankee Stadium on Sunday night was plagued by a nearly four-hour delay, apparently due to fans rushing the venue’s gates, starting four hours after the scheduled set time.
“I appreciate your patience. We gonna have a good time. I got some shit for you, I promise you,” Jay said when he finally took the stage after midnight.
“The band is still onstage and they’re just playing Ice Cube and Tupac songs over the sound system,” Variety‘s reported texted at 12:01 a.m. ET.
Reps for Jay-Z and Live Nation, the concert’s promoter, did not immediately respond to Variety’s requests for comment.
According to a report on New York’s ABC7, citing an unidentified police source, and multiple social media posts, a large number of fans rushed at least two of the stadium’s gates and got past security without being screened. A full lockdown of the stadium ensued, with fans neither being allowed out of the venue nor inside for an extended period of time.
