The New York Yankees have invited Jay-Z and Alicia Keys to perform “Empire State of Mind” for Game One of the World Series this Wednesday at Yankee Stadium. The performance will be part of the Pre-Game events on the field before the Yankees and Phillies battle it out.

“Thank the good Lord for making me a Yankee,” an excited Jay-Z said of the pending performance in an interview on Monday.

Hopefully this doesn’t mean Jay-Z is going to try and buy ownership of the Yankees and move them to Brooklyn as well. The Yankees have been using “Empire State of Mind” as their theme song throughout the playoffs. Unfortunatley 98% of Yankees fans who can afford to go to the World Series have no idea who Jay-Z is.

The good folks of EA Sports and WoooHa are teaming up for a giveaway of NBA Live 10 on Xbox 360. We are going to keep this short and simple. All you need to do is the following:

1) Leave a comment on this entry stating your favorite basketball team
2) Enter your valid e-mail address in the “E-Mail” form. We promise not to spam you or send you thousands of links to Solja Boy’s next mixtape.
3) We will randomly pick one winner this week on Friday and will be notified via e-mail. What team you enter as your favorite will not affect your chances of winning. That includes you Knicks fans. U.S. residents only. Good luck!

In the meantime make sure to download the NBA Live 10 mixtape at the official site and of course you can always directly purchase the game through EA at their online game store. Good luck!

Wish I got this pic earlier so I could post with the story that DJ Hero sales projections are being cut in half. Don’t mean to be a downer though. Here is Jay himself promoting DJ Hero in New York at the Plaza Hotel earlier today. More pics after the jump…Via: Rap-Up

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Not even Jay-Z and Eminem might be able to save this one. Although Activision’s DJ Hero is EVERYWHERE these days as it hits stores tomorrow, it looks like Wall Street analysts aren’t buying it…and neither will consumers. Analysts Cowen & Company have dropped their projections for DJ Hero in half due to lack of interest from a recent retailer survey.

“On DJ Hero, despite some recent positive comments from company management about pre-orders, we remain very cautious about the title’s prospects at launch,” he noted. “A survey of online retailers indicates a demand profile that is well below what we would have expected to see just a few days before launch for a title that was destined to be a big (or even modest) hit. As a result, we are reducing our estimate for DJ Hero Q4 US unit sales from 1.6 million to 600,000, and we are reducing our first year estimate from 2.5 million to 950,000.”

There are a lot of factors that go into this…for many it’s the fact that consumers don’t want another fake plastic instrument crowding up the family room…for others…scratching on turntables just doesn’t have the appeal of rocking out on a guitar. We’ll just have to see how sales go tomorrow. Now if only Dr. Dre was involved. Via: Kotaku

Michael Jackson x This Is It. This new film clip really shows off the dance choreography that we would all come to expect from a Michael Jackson tour. Makes us want to see this even more…

Yea we posted this trailer for Takers starring T.I. and Chris Brown as big time bank robbers back in September but now Sony has released the full HD version. You might notice on our site that Sony Screen Gems has already been aggressively marketing Takers online even though it still doesn’t hit theaters until February 26th, 2010. Expect more updates directly from Screen Gems to us here at WoooHa.

Michael Jackson x This Is It. While MJ’s This Is It is projected to have one of the biggest opening weekends in film history, not all Michael Jackson will be showing up to support it. In fact, an entire anti-This Is It campaign and website has been launched by MJ fans claiming that the pressures and grueling demands of the planned “This Is It” concert tour where what ultimately led to his death and AEG, the promoters of the tour and producers of the film, didn’t care what happened as long as they made their money.

The official campaign has been labeled This Is NOT It…the video pretty much explains it all or you can go to their official site for more details. I’m sure Sony Pictures isn’t worried about this though…just more free publicity for them.

50 Cent x Dead Man Running. 50 Cent’s new film Dead Man Running hits theaters this coming Friday but you won’t be able to see it here in the U.S. The indie low-budget film will only be playing in limited theaters in the U.K. and select parts of Europe. Luckily for you WoooHa readers, the film production company, Revolver Entertainment, was nice enough to send us pics of their official movie poster where 50 Cent is clearly the main marketing hook. Check the newer trailer after the jump….

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