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HipHopDX: While Hip Hop has permeated the fabric of popular culture, the presence of Rap music has not particularly been felt in the realm of concert grosses. This year, however, Jay-Z has continued to conquer the Hip Hop genre in tour grossing, and has kept up with some Rock ‘n Roll acts notable for their concert success.

Billboard Magazine recently tallied the top 35 grossing shows since January. Hov’s Blueprint 3 tour made the list eight times, with his highest-selling concert landing at No. 10, grossing $1,322,831 (Australian rock band AC/DC grossed the highest with over $27 million for three concerts at one venue).

Jay’s 360-deal with promoting-giant Live Nation has assisted him in his success on the road, starting with 2008’s jaunt with Mary J. Blige, which grossed $34.5 million. “With everything else going on in his career, maybe he hadn’t focused on tours as much as he could have,” VP of touring for Live Nation, Faisel Durani told Billboard. “But we always knew he was an amazing live artist and the kind of artist we could work with to get to where we needed to be on the live side.”

Jay-Z is scheduled to headline Coachella on Apr. 16 before making his way to Europe and Japan for other tour dates

The opening act for the BP3 tour explains how its going down. Better get some tickets to this tour, it sounds like its going to be hot.

Jay-Z’s Blueprint 3 album has received its biggest endorsement via President Barack Obama. In a recent interview with BBC One, disclosed that the President loved the LP and was playing it during their recent phone conversation.

“Barack loves Hip-Hop, when I called him he was playing Blueprint in the gym,” he explained. “I’ve been invited to the White House a couple of times. Hopefully we’ll keep him in for 8 years so I’ll have time to get there.”

Obama has been a self-admitted Hip-Hop fan for years, and first met Jay-Z in 2008 as part of his goal to help emcees use their art to spark critical thinking and bridge generational rifts.

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It would probably be a cliché to state that Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter is the opposite of the all-beef persona he proffers in song and video, but he is soft-spoken and polite. As he finishes his lunch at the Brooklyn studio where we did the photo shoot for this story, he asks for something to drink. “Snapple, I guess,” he says. “Bring me something red with that excess verbiage on the label. Although,” he laughs. “I guess that could be any of ’em.” He pays the kind of attention that’s reflected in his lyric choices.

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Trey Songz had a banner 2009 and he’s continuing his reign in 2010 by touring with one of the biggest names in music, Jay-Z.

The R&B singer has joined the second leg of the rapper’s Blueprint 3 tour. He will be one of the opening acts when it kicks off in arenas across the U.S. starting February 20 at the Bank Atlantic Center in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. He is currently scheduled to perform on all 23 dates, wrapping March 27 at The Pearl Concert Theater in Las Vegas.

Young Jeezy was previously announced as a supporting act. Tour dates, including stops at New York City’s Madison Square Garden and Los Angeles’ Staples Center, can be found here.

Jay-Z’s latest album The Blueprint 3 was released in September on Atlantic Records, home to Songz.

Peep the end of the video, I believe this is going to dub as a Jaquar commercial