New Delhi, July 13 -- NEW YORK - Three hours after Jay-Z was supposed to take the stage, the audience inside Yankee Stadium still didn't know when the show would start. Outside, roughly 10,000 people were pressing against the entry gates. Nothing had gone wrong yet. Jay-Z's calculation was that starting the music would change that.

"There's 10,000 people outside; I don't want to start the music and people get trampled," he told the crowd when he finally walked out. "I'm really sorry for the inconvenience, but I had to make sure everyone was OK."

The final night of the Blueprint 25th anniversary Yankee Stadium run had been designed as a capstone, the third date added after the first two sold out, the bookend to a three-night homecoming t...