Billboard’s 1996 Review of Debut
When Jay-Z announced a run of shows at Yankee Stadium in New York to celebrate the anniversaries of 1996’s Reasonable Doubt and 2001’s The Blueprint, tickets — to paraphrase “Can’t Knock the Hustle” — moved faster than a rabbit gets… well, let’s just say the July 10 and 11 shows sold out in hours. (A July 12 concert











