Jay-Z Playing Champaign, Illinois, in November

By Annie Zaleski on Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 7:02 pm

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Jay-Z's forthcoming album, The Blueprint 3, will be released on Friday, September 11 -- and to celebrate, today he announced an arena/college tour for the fall. The closest date so far is a November 12 one at Assembly Hall at the University of Illinois-Champaign. (Hey, that's a 3-hour drive or so; totally doable.) If a St. Louis date materializes, we'll let you know. Here's Hova covering the Beastie Boys at All Points West