Marking his first headlining set in six years, Jay-Z transformed The Roots Picnic into a celebration of hip-hop history, Black music, and cultural legacy.

When Jaÿ-Z headlines Roots Picnic Saturday night, with the Roots as his backing band, it will be his second Philly concert in as many nights. Jaÿ-Z — the rapper and entertainment mogul who now takes ...

For a while, it was fair to wonder whether Philadelphia’s biggest Fourth of July party would make it to the finish line. The One Philly Unity Concert for America arrived on Benjamin Franklin Parkway ...

As it turned out, Jay-Z had been quietly setting the stage over the past few months for what we could expect during his headlining show at the Roots Picnic in Philadelphia. On streaming, he’d changed ...