Making waves

Jay-Z headlined the Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, though many people were not down with the choice of Hova as a headline act.

The festival, which takes place every year at a farm in Southwest England, started in 1970, and has traditionally booked indie/folk/guitar-driven acts, but the move to go with Jay-Z was met with much criticism, particularly by Oasis lead singer, Noel Gallagher.

"If it ain't broke don't fix it," Gallagher told the BBC. "I'm sorry, but Jay-Z? No chance. Glastonbury has a tradition of guitar music. I'm not having hip-hop at Glastonbury. It's wrong."

So Jay opened his show (guitar in hand), covering Oasis' big hit, "Wonderwall," just to spite Gallagher's remarks, and he K-I-L-L-E-D it.



Fuck you, Noel Gallagher. You got smacked by a foreigner in your own country. Just because you didn't play the biggest festival in the world this year doesn't give you an excuse to be a hater. Jay-Z is an ambassador of hip hop, and hip hop is one of the most contemporary performing arts on the planet. Not only was it a good idea to book Jay-Z, it was necessary, because otherwise Glastonbury would have had to take the "contemporary" out of its title.