Rap star, hip hop mogul Jay Z gave a Big Middle Finger to the Oasis front man, Noel Gallagher, by starting his show with a cover of the Oasis hit "Wonderwall".
So after all the media furore surrounding Jay headlining Glastonbury, it’s a wrap. Jay Z came, saw and conquered the festival. After the Oasis front man publicly slated him and Glasto for having Jay headline, S Dot Carter gave the middle finger to Noel Gallagher by starting his show with a cover of the Oasis hit ‘Wonderwall’. Jay even came out playing a guitar, albeit unconvincingly. He then cleverly told the capacity crowd “I got one thing to say”, moving swiftly into “I got 99 problems but a bitch ain’t one”. The bitches and player haters like Noel Gallagher were truly silenced.
Jay rolled through hits like “Izzo”, “Big Pimpin” and “Hard Knock Life” which were all well received. If it were solely a Jay Z concert joints like “Jigga What, Jigga Who” would have understandably got a much better reception but the crowd weren’t as familiar with his more ’specialist’ tracks.
Regardless, with the exception of a live band who backed him throughout and some support from Memphis Bleek, Jay’s biggest trick was the omission of any guest artists on stage with him at all. At any moment you felt he could bring on Beyonce, Bono or Chris Martin but no, he convincingly held the entire set down off his own steam crushing his haters in the process. He made some concessions, the whole show incorporated rock elements more than likely prompted on by the nature of the event. He never usually blends AC/DC’s “Back In Black” into “99 Problems” at his shows and the Linkin Park version of his finale “Encore” demonstrated some much needed versatility to his critics, as if it were needed.
If Jay was going to call any show his last, this could have been it, you were witnessing a man at the very top of his game and truly stadium status. Of course it was never going to top classic Glasto performances by the likes of Radiohead or The White Stripes but who else could bring rap music to one of the world’s biggest live music events on the headline stage but Jay Z? Cue Kanye for 2009 but hip-hop truly arrived at Glastonbury in 2008.
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