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Jay-Z concert starts hours late after police say fans without tickets rushed entrances 87%
7/14/2026, 1:03:18 AM
BS Summary: This video contains 7 faulty reasoning types, including Hindsight Bias, Appeal to Emotion, and Fundamental Attribution Error, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 14.8% saturation with 99 hits. Analysis detected 377 faulty-reasoning hits from 669 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 81% and a BS Rank of 87% (2,087 of 15,517 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 86.60% of the video peer group.
Outside Yankee Stadium, it was sheer chaos.
>> The hottest mess.
>> Hundreds of Jay-Z fans with no tickets mixed among thousands who purchased them, storming the gates at the iconic venue, according to police. [music]
>> And since I made [singing] it here, delaying the rappers high-profile extra innings concert Sunday for more than 4 hours on the third and final night, prompting Jay-Z to issue this apology to fans after midnight.
>> Really sorry for the inconvenience, but I had to make sure everybody was okay.
Ariel Barrow was looking forward to this night for months.
>> First of all, it was hard to get tickets to the show, right?
>> She managed to get inside around 8:45, but was separated from her friends for hours.
>> People were trying to shove and push and the security kind of jumped over people to get the doors locked and and um in place. So, it seemed that there was a little bit of a bum rush to get inside.
>> The frustration felt by many stranded outside.
>> We are in line for the Jay-Z concert.
>> They bum rush.
>> Bum rush the game.
>> They shut it down. The Grammy-winning artist eventually taking the stage after 12 and trying to offer comfort and context.
>> There's 10,000 people outside. I don't want to stop music and people get trampled. Appreciate your patience.
>> Jen Bug attended the concert on Friday and Saturday and had tickets for Sunday, but never made it inside.
>> It wasn't even fathomable to even make it to the door. That's how dense the crowd was.
>> How would you describe the level of frustration among fans that were waiting to get inside? devastating. Um, we saw every range of emotion.
>> In a joint statement, the New York Yankees, Rock Nation, and Live Nation said that hundreds of people in large groups who did not have tickets to the show quote, stormed over peaceful ticket holders and in some cases breached security at various entrances.
As a result, gates at all entryways were closed for an extended period of time.
Bug does not blame Jay-Z. Overall, safety is the main priority.
>> And eventually, the show did go on with one of New York's most beloved artists delivering a home run performance that wrapped up [music] just before 3:00 a.m.
>> All right, Sam Brock joins us now. Sam, there were tens of thousands of people there. And what we're hearing is that there were no arrests or injuries, which is pretty incredible.
>> It's incredible. 40,000 people were on record as being at this event, Tom. No arrests, no injuries. You know, we did anecdotally speak with some folks who said there was some dehydration issues, heat related issues, but nothing that rose to the level of significant.
It seems like the inflection point in all this 2021 Astroorld, that tragedy, Travis Scott concert, 10 people were killed, hundreds were injured, organizers had really been incredibly safe and safety oriented ever since that point in time.
This was another example where if it meant gates were closed for hours, people were let in slowly and cautiously. That's an exchange that they were willing to make. And again, no one injured, thousands of people standing outside waiting around for hours.
>> Seems it seems like it took him a little bit by surprise, but you're right.
>> Yes. That was also kind of odd that the security wasn't prepared for that level of volume. It's not clear if that was an NYPD issue, a Yankee security issue. It seems like they all sort of acknowledge this is not how we wanted it to go.
>> Sam Brock, we thank you.
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