Mariah Carey Returns to the Garden: Emancipation of MimiTour Hits New York

Mimi made her return to New York in front of a packed crowd in the world famous Madison Square Garden. Mariah had been through tough times the last few years but her career came surging back with the release of, "The Emancipation of Mimi." The album's opening week sales were the highest first week sales of her entire career. It went on to be the highest selling album for 2005 and went six times platinum!!! Mariah is now back on her, "A," game and selling millions of records. 

The opening act for the show was Reggae superstar, "Sean Paul". Although he was performing in front of fans more concerned with seeing Mariah, he was able to keep the crowd hype, playing some of his greatest hits. He performed songs ranging from his first big hit, "Gimmie the Light," to his latest hit, "Give it All to Me." Sean Paul and his dancers did a good job of keeping a non Reggae crowd entertained and dancing. After Sean Paul came an intermission, everyone was getting excited. I was getting nervous because the seat I was in wasn't even mine LOL. I was in the 9th row, and the row of seats in the section started out empty. But after intermission its was down to only 2 seats in the row! I got lucky and no one came for the seat, I always get away with it. 

So then the big moment came and Mariah made her first appearance for the night. The show started off with a bang. Da Brat came out doing her verse for, "Heartbreaker," and then Mariah came out singing. Of course all you could here was cheers from all over the Garden. Then came one of the loudest moments of the night, non other then Jay-Z came out doing his verse from the Heartbreaker remix. I, along with the entire audience, was in complete shock and the crowd went crazy, it was complete pandemonium. My video footage of it was very shaky due to everyone going crazy, it just caught everyone off guard. Unfortunately he didn't stay long and made his exist after his verse.