Just another mash-up

Jay-Z and Coldplay teamed up for the Terry Urban/Mick Boogie mixtape cleverly titled, Viva La Hova.

Hova is not new to the mixtape mash-ups. DJ Danger Mouse's The Grey Album - a combination of Jay-Z's vocals from The Black Album and rearranged instrumentals from The Beatles' White Album - was welcomed with critical acclaim from The New Yorker, The Boston Globe, and The Village Voice.

But this mixtape is less innovative, and includes some of Jay's most popular flows on top of mostly unaltered Coldplay instrumentals.

And on top of it all, it looks like the cover's creator spent all of about 10 minutes on it.

But check their MySpace page HERE to form your own opinion.

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.

Jay-Z and Mary J. Blige on Letterman

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I want that jacket.

Old Jay

This was recorded when Jay-Z was still charming.