Jay-Z Joins Linkin Park On Stage for Encore Jam

After headlining a show at the Apple Store, Linkin Park broke out the big guns for their encore at last night's sold-out performance at Madison Square Garden. After a brief psych-out where the band announced "Goodnight, New York," Jay-Z stormed the stage to throw down with his collaborators from 2004's Collision Course EP. They performed two songs: "Numb" and a mash-up of LP's "Faint" with Jigga's "Jigga What, Jigga Who." Rock Daily was there with its trusty video camera to capture the latter, so check out the clip above.

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Song Stories

“1999”

Prince | 1982

“I don’t consider myself a great poet,” Prince told Rolling Stone. “I just know I’m here to say what’s on my mind.” In the case of the apocalyptic party anthem “1999,” he was worried about then-president Ronald Reagan’s foreign policies. The song’s melody is based on a riff borrowed from the Mamas and Papas’ “Monday, Monday,” and Prince originally envisioned the first verse with three-part harmony but later split the vocals between himself and members of the Revolution. Because Warner Bros., with whom Prince was locked in a contractual battle, owned the original’s masters, Prince rerecorded the song and appropriately released that version in 1999.

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