What is the subject of the benefit concert given by Jay Z in New York City?”
Jay-Z to give Sept. 11 benefit concert in NYC The charity concert, billed “Answer the Call,” will benefit families of New York City police and firefighters killed on 9/11. It will be held on Sept. 11 at Madison Square Garden. (AP) – Jay-Z will hold a Sept. 11 benefit concert in New York City. The rapper made the announcement Monday at Madison Square Garden. He was joined by Gov. David Paterson, Fire Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta and Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer. The charity concert, billed “Answer the Call,” will benefit families of New York City police and firefighters killed on 9/11. It will be held on Sept. 11 at Madison Square Garden. All proceeds from ticket and concert merchandise sales will go to the New York Police and Fire Widows’ and Children’s Benefit Fund. Jay-Z is the former president of Def Jam Recordings. ©Copyright 2009 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
NEW YORK — A benefit concert that rapper Jay-Z is planning for Sept. 11 is a step in the direction that his career – and life – is heading in, he said Monday. The 39-year-old is set to release his 11th studio CD, “The Blueprint 3,” the same day of the charity concert, which has been billed as “Answer the Call.” The performance will be at New York’s Madison Square Garden and air live on Fuse TV. “The first ‘Blueprint’ was a return to my roots, like those soul samples my mom and pop listened to, and now on this one we’re becoming those guys we looked up to on all those records,” he said. “It’s my evolution and it’s me now in the forefront, not as the performer who looked back … but me taking the initiative being the one, and being the icon, or being the philanthropist,” he said in an interview after a news conference Monday. Jay-Z was joined by his wife, singer Beyonce Knowles; Gov. David Paterson; Fire Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta and Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer. Jay
