The lobby of the Mercer Hotel was crowded with industry types on Thursday night (July 7): various members of the press, music journalists, bloggers, magazine reps and then two teen boys, who sat with their parents conspicuously.
The miniature mob, at the behest of a publicist, crowded into an elevator -- thick with the smell of marijuana smoke -- in two tightly packed shifts. Everyone in attendance was there to listen to Jay-Z's most recent collaboration with Kanye West -- the hotly anticipated and oft pushed-back dual album 'Watch the Throne.'
The previously mentioned teenagers were the first two to pre-order the album, thus receiving an invite to the exclusive listening party. The boys as well as the crowd filed into Hova's hotel room in neat single file to find him sitting alone on a chair and, in the most literal sense of the phrase, "straight chillin'."
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