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BY BOB HOLT

NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM

Rappers Jay-Z and Eminem are bringing their joint "Home and Home" tour to Yankee Stadium Monday and Tuesday and the best tickets are going for up to $13,000.

It's the first concert since the new stadium opened last year and the second leg of their two-city tour that started in Detroit's Comerica Park earlier in the month. Fans say the gig is especially memorable because the South Bronx is considered the birthplace of rap.

Eminem was staying quiet about his plans for the shows. "I don't want to get into it too much," Eminem told Billboard.com. "I don't want to give anything away. But ... I think it'll be good."

He did, however, allow that his song selection "will probably be all over the place" rather than concentrating on "Recovery," his double-platinum latest album that's still sitting atop the Billboard 200.

According to NorthJersey.com, Eminem wouldn't guarantee he and Jay-Z would perform together — which they briefly did in Detroit and on David Letterman's show — but he promised there wouldn't be any kind of battle attitude between them.

Eminem is also looking toward his next recording project. Though he says there are 25-30 tracks he completed in addition to the 17 that made "Recovery," Eminem said he is also in the studio probably about five days a week.

Plans for other shows and even a tour, however, remain up in the air. "I'm taking everything as it comes ... a step at a time and seeing what the next thing's going to be," Eminem said.

He also says he would "definitely like to get back into" acting eight years after his star turn in "8 Mile," and though producers of the new ABC police drama "Detroit 1-8-7" have made some public overtures toward him, there are no commitments to anything yet.

Jay-Z's connection to the Yankees has always been strong. He's rarely spotted without wearing a Yankees fitted cap. In his hit song, "Empire State of Mind," he proclaimed, "I made the Yankee hat more famous than a Yankee can."

"I've always hoped that hip-hop could play any stadium," Jay-Z, whose real name is Shawn Carter, told the New York Daily News. "How perfect is it that Eminem and I get to play our hometowns?"

Prices on StubHub.com ranged from $200 to sit in the upper deck to $13,000 to sit in front of the stage in center field.

Meanwhile, Eminem performed at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards last night, but he wasn't all that thrilled about it.

When he was nominated for eight awards in August, he told the New York Daily News, "Apparently, MTV doesn't care that I have two massive stadium shows on the other side of the country the day after the VMAs. F me, right?!?!" I mean, I'll be there, but don't expect me to be nice about it."