JAY-Z TO TOUR BEHIND 'GANGSTER': Def Jam pres to launch five-day outing in November.

Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter will launch a five-city tour to promote his new album "American Gangster," recorded as a lyrical companion piece to the upcoming Denzel Washington film of the same name.


"American Gangster Live" is scheduled to kick off at the House of Blues in Los Angeles on Nov. 6, the same day the "American Gangster" CD is released and four days after the film arrives in theaters.


The brief tour will then move to Chicago on Nov. 7th, Baltimore on the 9th, New York on the 11th and Philadelphia on Nov. 12th.


The film stars Washington as real life 1970s Harlem drug kingpin Frank Lucas The cast also includes Russell Crowe, Cuba Gooding Jr., Common, the RZA and jailed rapper T.I.