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In July, Lil Uzi Vert scored his third chart-topping album, and his fourth in the top 5, when “Pink Tape” debuted at No. 1. That paved the road for a 23-date tour in October, with some of those shows — including one at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco — selling out. Roc Nation’s partnership with the NFL yielded another attention-getting Super Bowl performance, again shining the spotlight on one of its own artists: Rihanna, whose show led the world to discover that the artist, actor and entrepreneur was expecting her second child. The singer’s first live performance in more than five years earned five Emmy nominations and drew more than 121 million viewers, breaking the Super Bowl Halftime Show record set in 2015 by Katy Perry. The company honored founder Jay-Z and the 50th anniversary of hip-hop this summer with “The Book of Hov,” a 40,000-square-foot exhibit at the Brooklyn Public Library (and available to the masses online).
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