Jay-Z Kanye West

O2, Dublin Tonight (sold out)/Tomorrow 8pm €69.50 0818-719300

Take two of the most successful hip-hop artists around, put them onstage together and position them inside beams of green light on top of giant cubes that rise 20 feet from the floor. The result is the showdown of all showdowns.

Of course, even separately Jay-Z and Kanye West could easily sell out venues bigger than the 02, but this combo package is tied in with plugging last year’s collaborative record, Watch the Throne, which means a rake of tunes from that album (including That’s My Bitch, Otis, Gotta Have It and No Church in the Wild). What it also means, however, is that fans of the pair will be treated to a respective greatest hits run through.

Pick your own favourites, we say – they’ll probably be all up for inclusion in a show guaranteed to pack a punch to the solar plexus for the guts of two hours.

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