Watch newly unearthed footage from Jay-Z’s 2001 Hot 97 Summer Jam performance
Jay-Z‘s performance at the June 2001 edition of Hot 97 Summer Jam at Nassau Coliseum in New York, over two decades after it took place.The legendary set saw the rapper bring out Michael Jackson and Missy Elliott and, infamously, debut his Nas and Mobb Deep diss track ‘Takeover’ ahead of its inclusion on the album ‘The Blueprint’ a few months later.While performing the song during his Summer Jam set, Jay projected onto huge screens a photo of Mobb Deep member Prodigy taking part in a dance class as a child. Jay went on to reference the moment on the studio version of the track, rapping, “Don’t be the next contestant on that Summer Jam screen“.Though audio of the set has long been available, video has not been easily accessible until this week, when YouTube channel HipHopVCR uploaded all 57 minutes of the performance in full, as Stereogum points out.