Jay-Z and Kanye Reroute 'Watch the Throne' Tour

Jay-Z and Kanye West

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The itinerary of Kanye West and Jay-Z's tour in support of Watch the Throne, their debut album as the duo the Throne, has been significantly altered since they were announced last week. The tour has been re-routed entirely, with most of the dates pushed back from September and October into November and December.

When reached for comment as to why the dates have been pushed back, a representative from Roc Nation, Jay-Z's management company, simply sent a press release announcing that some dates were added to the tour due to "overwhelming demand."

Here are the new tour dates for the Watch the Throne tour:

October 29 Atlanta, GA - Philips Arena
October 30 Greensboro, NC - Greensboro Coliseum
November 1 Baltimore, MD - 1st Mariner Arena
November 2 Philadelphia, PA - Wells Fargo Center
November 3 Washington, D.C. - Verizon Center
November 5 East Rutherford, NJ - Izod Center
November 6 East Rutherford, NJ - Izod Center
November 21 Boston, MA - TD Garden
November 21 Toronto, ON - Air Canada Centre
November 23 Detroit, MI - Palace of Auburn Hills
December 1 Chicago, IL - United Center
December 5 Houston, TX - Toyota Center
December 6 Dallas, TX - American Airlines Center
December 9 Las Vegas, NV - MGM Grand Garden
December 10 San Jose, CA - HP Pavilion
December 12 Los Angeles, CA - Staples Center
December 18 Vancouver, BC - Rogers Arena

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Billy Joel | 1973

Billy Joel’s first hit, “Piano Man,” was – ironically – an autobiographical lament about how his first album wasn’t a hit. When Cold Spring Harbor didn’t take off, Joel briefly became a lounge pianist in Los Angeles, and this song, about that experience, expressed his frustrations and fears at the time: “And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar/And say, ‘Man, what are you doing here?’” “It was all right,” Joel said later, about the gig. “I got free drinks and union scale, which was the first steady money I’d made in a long time.”

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