Review Of Jay-Z’s Glastonbury Performance (Full Performance Video)
Just finished watching the Jay-z performance, well about an hour ago. Been looking forward to his performance the whole day and he killed it! There were just over 300,000 people in the field so I really couldn’t get any video but I managed to get the billi freestyle but the sound makes it not worth listening to. He came out with a guitar mocking oasis because of their comments about him performing. This was my second time going to Glastonbury and from all the performances there have been this has to be in the top 3 of all time. For a hip-hop artist to come out to a white dominated event and rock/indie dominated event to be one of the only hip-hop acts (not forgetting Lupe) they both did their thing. Especially to do the his act on his own, well apart from memphis bleek who was there for a couple of songs. And Beyonce was there in the background and I’m guessing like most of the other people there thought she would come out and do a song.
And although this has nothing to do with the Jay-z performance there might be a video of Amy Winehouse punching a fan coming on to the internet soon, so you might want to keep an eye out for that. And I’m not to sure if you have seen the video of Lupe and his comments “Fuck Bush, Fuck Robert Mugabe” and I ain’t to sure about what’s going to happen to him since the Dixi Chicks and their comments, so that might be something to look out for. Well, anyway the Jay-z performance was deffinetly the best of this years Glastonbury and I’m still surprised it did not sell out.-Tarisai Makotore
Side-note the crackhead Amy Winehouse took a shot at Kanye West:
“amy-winehouse also told the audience to get ready for jay-z and be grateful they weren’t gettying kanye-west as he is a cunt” - bee
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First hoes …… wtf is this jay lol way to rep The BK
roc city stand up
1st niggas! hov still doing his thing. cant no one knock his hustle
it actually did sell out right before the event started. People hate, but seriously..who could have represented Hip Hop better then Jigga? LEGEND STATUS
Lol .Look At Tha Jigga Man Singin ..Damn I Thought You Were Going To Post The Whole Performance..Not Just a Small Clip.
thats what the fuck im talkin bout…Man us as black people gotta start listening to all kinds of music..H0VA is the truth….even th0 he kinda j0ckin my boy wayne with the guitar L0L
they lucked out..and they was tryin to tell him he couldnt do it
HAHAHA,WHERE YOU @ WEEZY FANS?300,000 IN ATTENDANCE TO SEE HOV,HOW MANY NIGGAS CAME OUT TO SEE LIL FLEAZY?NONE,SINCE HE WAS NEVER THERE,AHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
ROCKAFELLA=DOMINATED GLASTONBURY
WHO’S NEXT TO DOMINATE?G-UNIT,COME JULY 1ST,ALL YOU SNITCHES AND YOU PUNK ASS TIGHT JEANS WEARING SQUID BRAINS WILL BE SINGING “WO WO WO WO WO WO”!
@ #5 Dj
Oasis singer, Noel Gallagher said that Jay-Z shouldn’t be performing at the festival, so Jay-Z had the guitar to mock him. That’s why he was singing Oasis’ song Wonderwall in the video.
yo u guys check this out
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7479330.stm
amy-winehouse also told the audience to get ready for jay-z and be grateful they weren’t gettying kanye-west as he is a cunt
Thanks for explaining Undercovermc…U can tell Dj didnt read the article…reading is good for you Dj…
Not even an legend anymore,more like an ICON!!!
do yall just realize he rocked a michael jackson type crowd?300,000 people screaming for you as a rapper proves you just landed as 1 of the best ICONS of all time!
Did ya’ll hear the screams? They were LOVING how he mocked that dude! LMAO! I know I thought that shit was funny, but Hov, don’t EVER sing again on your life! Leave that to the Misses, please!
Number 5 and 7 get off of Lil Wayne’s dick you faggot excuse my french but your an ungrateful Cunt.Wayne has nothing to do with this now go to bed
I mean weezy my nigga
but im a little tired of people saying shit about him
thats what the fuck im talkin bout…Man us as black people gotta start listening to all kinds of music..
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Speak for yourself punkass. Many of us black folks like all kinds of music. Stop being ignorant¨with stupid generalizing comments like that.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Y4VNmTDZYrw
Video of Amy WhineHouse throwing punch at fan LMAO GOTTA LOVE THIS BITCH
man that right there was history in the making ,like you have to understand. this is a rock festival.a tridition in london and for him to sale out the place and be the best performer/highlight of that night ,A rapper,JAY-Z ,for him to get up there BY HIMSELF NO SPEACIAL GUEST JUST HIM & BLEEK ,NO COLD PLAY,NO AMY,JUST HIM! and take over that whole show the way he did with all those people and do what he did man how could you compare these new rappers to him HOW CAN YOU? ,HOW? they have not done that but because of this dude right here..now they probly can another door that he opened
all that stuff yall giving props to that these new dude is doing is great and stuff but they can’t compare to what jay is doing/just did so why even put them in same category and act like they on the same level..all I can say is I’m proud to witness this & dats real talk A big move for hiphop
icon for sure if not more..
man that right there was history in the making ,like you have to understand. this is a rock festival.a tridition in london and for him to sale out the place and be the best performer/highlight of that night ,A rapper,JAY-Z ,for him to get up there BY HIMSELF NO SPEACIAL GUEST JUST HIM & BLEEK ,NO COLD PLAY,NO AMY,JUST HIM! and take over that whole show the way he did with all those people and do what he did man how could you compare these new rappers to him HOW CAN YOU? ,HOW? they have not done that but because of this dude right here..now they probly can another door that he opened
all that stuff yall giving props to that these new dude is doing is great and stuff but they can’t compare to what jay is doing/just did so why even put them in same category and act like they on the same level..all I can say is I’m proud to witness this & dats real talk A big move for hiphop
icon for sure if not more..
LOL he’s making fun of Noel cause of what he said about Jay performing at that festival so he came out singing Oasis biggest hit “Wonderwall”. LOL you gotta love Jay. He’s doing his thing. Good stuff lol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDDxYMFVz48
Interview b4 the show: http://vodpod.com/watch/759955-jay-z-speaks-on-the-uk-and-glastonbury
Niggas dont understand that Jay has that STAR Quality and the Body of Work to work any kind of audience. Any age, any race. Him & Beyonce can rock a show for damn near any audience with their live performances.
@so get like me
Y’all need to calm down with all that history in the making. WTF? This turned out to be big because of the negative feedback from some rockartist about why Jay headline a rockfestival. It’s the rockbands that sold out that festival NOT Jay. You give him too much credit. Jay did well though and he proved himself being a great live artist.
Anyway, There have been several hiphop artists doing great shows on festivals like this. Wu Tang Clan, Eminem, The Roots, DMX and the list goes on and on. The best I’ve ever seen is Outcast. they destroy everybody LIVE.
was he really gonna cry?
#Whoa
True plenty of rappers have been on rockfestivals but Jay-z is the fist one to headline a rockfestival. That never happened before and that’s why all the criticism. I do agree with you though that the public was there to watch the rock/Indie groups. Jay-z did his thing though and I’m sure he surprised alot of those people who don’t really listen to hiphop music. I also like Outcast they are simply amazing and DMX was off the hook at Woodstock back in 1999.
Check this out:
DMX at Woodstock Stop being greedy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKsx36qM468
@ whoa, yea the rock bands may have sold out the festival..
but the shit that I was kicking is that
first off my nig with the hate that was tossed at jigga them mother fuckers could’ve left before his set a nobody was threaten them to say there that’s my point about the sold out crowd hell the fuck yea them rock bands is the sole purpose of that shit selling out ..but again (THEY COULD’VE DIPPED THE FUCK OUT!)..which is point in me bringing it up in MY post
and 2 . they could’ve boo’ed his ass the fuck off the staged or pull the shit they did to fif and so on and threw some shit at that nigga’s noggin! true talk..BUT THEY DIDN’T they was all into that shit like they was from bk
that was the point and it is history in the making showing people hiphop is not some lower class of music if you can’t respect that then fuck you doing on this site?
and at the end of the day the most important part of this is neither my review..the news stations…other artist basically nobody can changed the (FACT!) that he rocked that crowd something serious & that’s all the matters
@ whoa, yea the rock bands may have sold out the festival..
but the shit that I was kicking is that
first off my nig with the hate that was tossed at jigga them mother fuckers could’ve left before his set a nobody was threaten them to say there that’s my point about the sold out crowd hell the fuck yea them rock bands is the sole purpose of that shit selling out ..but again (THEY COULD’VE DIPPED THE FUCK OUT!)..which is point in me bringing it up in MY post
and 2 . they could’ve boo’ed his ass the fuck off the staged or pull the shit they did to fif and so on and threw some shit at that nigga’s noggin! true talk..BUT THEY DIDN’T they was all into that shit like they was from bk
that was the point and it is history in the making showing people hiphop is not some lower class of music if you can’t respect that then fuck you doing on this site?
and at the end of the day the most important part of this is neither my review..the news stations…other artist basically nobody can changed the (FACT!) that he rocked that crowd something serious & that’s all the matters
“So get like me” - stop posting things twice.
typo.
nobody threatenED them to stay there
so kanye isnt a cunt?
@ “true nigga” its outkast not outcast…smh u lost
@so get like me
I’ve been to many different festivals and They rarely boo artists. They usually give the artist a shot to do their thing and if it suck then they boo regardless of genre.
Most of the crowd didn’t hate on Jay-z. This stuff got a lot of publicity because Noel made some remarks about Jay. Media made this much bigger than what it really was. Of course there were some fans who were worried that having Jay as the headline could be a big risk not to attract as many people as possible. You gotta understand their concern. Imagine if a rockband would headline summerjam? There would be some fans who wouldn’t think that would be such a good idea. But at the end of the day festivals like this have TONS of loyal fans and they know that their favorite bands are going to be there so it doesn’t matter that Jay did headline that festival.
My point is what you need to understand is that many rappers have been at festivals like this and rocked the crowed like crazy plenty of times in the past. This is nothing new, but you seem to think Jay did something no other rapper has ever done before on that stage. Hiphop music IS respected and been respected for many years..you need to get out more.
He overcame the odds..that’s what makes this special. His performance defined Hip-hop and also himself..seriously other people have done things, but not to this magnitude. From all the reviews..hands down he had the BEST performance. He just solidified hip-hop and himself in the history of Glastonbury! HOVA the GOD
smh amy whinehouse is the last person that should be callin people names
Sure amy is a good singer but she’s also a fucking crackhead. She needs to worry about herself before talking about other people.
MOTHERFUCKER.MOTHER FUCKING FUCKER.NOW WE’VE GOT CRACKHEADS CALLING REAL NIGGAS CUNTS?THIS NOODLE BODIED BITCH CALLED A SUCCESSFUL BLACK MAN A CUNT?FUCK THAT SKA MUSIC,AND FUCK AMY WINEHOUSE
I SAW THE HOLD SHOW JAYZ KILL THE SHIT HE’S THE BEST HOV
Kanye is a cunt.
what else did you expect??!!! ROC bitches
LOL.
Cocaine’s a hell of a drug.
JAY IS THAT DUDE YA’LL ALREADY KNOW WAT IT IS HE DID HIS THING MAN IT THE ROC
Jay showed that “MC” side to him. and to Whoa, yeah other rappers have performed and did well at rock concerts but this is epic for hip hop as a culture. The Roots, DMX and so on were who they are as artists, but jay is a torch holder, A self-proclaimed King of NY mc, it’s like Nas getting dissed and getting back at dude from Oasis with this bias he put out. Jay did that with swagger and cleverness and plus the song make sense if you listen to it. It’s a soft jab back to Noel Gallagher. that’s where the cleverness is inherited from MC to MC. yall gotta love it. ain’t no overrating this shit. Whoa, if you don’t get it, then you’ll never get it. It’s our culture.
i am from the Uk and i doubt the authenticity of this ‘report’
First of all Glastonbury attendance is not 300 000, infact its half that,
This year 150 000, so i don’t know how, ‘300 000′ could have been watching jay z.
for evidence of the numbers read here:
http://festivalinfo.net/?uid=149
‘Glastonbury Festival attracts about 150 000 visitors.’
or here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/06/29/bmglasto129.xml
Jay z did his thing but still the crowd was thinner than for any headliner in recent years.
just over 300,000 eh? wow.
in fact when you consider there were 180,000 on site including staff, only 130,000 of which are actual punters, and that several other stages also had crowds (of course not as large..) then 300, 000 IS amazing.
they better get higher fences next year coz having 0ver 150, 000 managing to climb a 10 ft high fence is quite a breach…
Jay Z jus gettin started people. He aint goin no where. He still doin his thing. He’s transended hip hop as a whole. Look, I respect what Lil Wayne, TI, Kanye West, Lupe Fiasco, Young Jeezy and what all of todays rappers are doing but Jay Z is just that dude. He’s the best alive right now. Aint no one messin with him. Only Jay could pull off somthin like this. Ya’ll need to give this man his credit when it’s due.
in the rolling stone magazine he said “im just gonna be a 1 man rolling stone and do things that hip hop has never seen or imagined”.hes doing it people
Jay-Z killed it, I had a feeling after what Noell said he would do somethink when he came and he never dissapointed to do what he did at a white/rock event was great and like Lupe said Hip Hop is here to stay. I dunno why people are so uptight on Amy Winehouse’s comments yes she does Crack and whatever but you can’t saying what she said about Kanye West is incorrect ?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/glastonbury/2008/artists/lupefiasco/ I don’t know if you’ll outside the UK can see it but here’s the link to Lupe’s performance
HOV is definitely a living legend hands down nobody will ever do it like he doing it he the the one like neo in the matrix the king of this rap shit an Icon and of course the best rapper alive 300,000 and be the best performance at the festival in 08… he started this shit in 96 yall motherefuckers cant be serious pay respect he opened the doors for your favorite rapper plus he about to be a billionaire and he started from rap
OMG did you hear that mix? That shit was bananas!!! I don’t understand how in this day and age people can still count out the an artist of such magnitude! Jay is not a Souldja Boy or Lil Wayne, this man is hip-hop in the flesh and proof that this is not just music for “niggas”. It’s universal! Mad love for Jay even though I’m gettin tight at him for some of his choices. This definitely was a great choice and a historic moment!
WE LOVE YOU JAY… NOW 4 THE HATERS HE ALWAYS SHOW UP & SHOW OUT!!!!!!! HE JUST ACCUMULATED ANOTHER 100,000 FANS BEHIND THIS ONE. I WANT THE HATERS TO REMEMBER WHEN IT’S SOMETHING GOOD… A FRIEND ALWAYS TELL ANOTHER FRIEND! NEXT TIME WHEN HIS NAME IS MENTIONED THERE WILL BE A MILLI, OR A BILLI, A BILLI
Jay’s full set at Glastonbury
http://www.bbc.co.uk/glastonbury/2008/artists/jayz/
Jay-Z was rubbish at Glastonbury, haha no one has heard any of his songs. In UK the guy means shit. Terrible.
CHECK OUT THE PERFORMANCES HE THE OBAMA OF THE MUSIC INDUSTRY BREAKING DOWN BARRIERS!!!
@ #5 DJ apparently so do White people
Gay-Z
He was not rubbish at all. He was actually very good and he did put on a good performance. He was not the best act but jay z proved the media cricts wrong.
F..k Lupe if he really said f**k Robert Mugabe. Dont speak on what u dont know about!! If u dont see what these imperialists are trying to do in Zimbabwe then u not as smart or conscious as you try to seem. Open ur eyes u dumb f**k
WTF? Do you support Mugabe? Anyone with some sense doesn’t support Mugabe.
@ #50 - No, fuck you. Mugabe likened himself to Hitler and destroyed Zimbabwe economically. You’re in favour of him because he’s against the white people in Zimbabwe, but what you don’t know is that he’s fucking up the whole country and is only concerned with power.
I Juss Got Done Watchin Jay’s Whole Performance At The Glastonbury Festival .And Yeah That Shit Was Live, He Killed it . Lol Even Had Me Rappin The Lyrics Along With Him .And Then He Ended it Perfectly, With Encore Feat Linkin Park..And Give Props To My Nigga Lupe Too, He Also Held It Down And Did His Thing On The Real, He Had The Crowd Rockin The Whole Time He Was Stage, And You Can Tell He Put All His Energy In His Performance, The Way He Was Runnin Across The Stage, He Was Out Of Breath By The Thrid Song.By The End Of His Performance He Had The Whole Crowd Screamin His Name. So Give Props To Lupe Also Because He Definitely Did His Thing.
this nigga would get bottles tossed at em coming out with a guitar. shit looked wack
if u wanna see jay z whole performance go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer
Jiggggggga killled it,, bein from the UK we been hearin bout the beef wit him and that oasis dude, but when he came out signing one of his tunes hes killlled it,,, i wonder who gona replace him for next yr as the organiser said it was getting boring with all rock bands…
link to watch the full performance in 10 minute youtube clips….
http://colonisedminds.wordpress.com/2008/06/29/jay-z-glastonbury-performance-full/
I WONDER WHAT KIND OF PANTIES AMY WINEHOUSE BE WEARING
6 millon fucking dollars for bread and empty shops WTF ? & people getting rapped even babies and some idiot supporting Mugabe ? Crazy @ 50 fuck you
all those hating on Mugabe are doing so cos u saw some Sh.t on tv but u dont know the history and the real facts of the situation. Its like someone saying all blacks in US are drug dealers and ho’s cos thats how the media potrays them.
U saying people getting raped and all that cos someone on tv told u that right? Even the people in zim are shocked at what everyone else is saying is going on. Blatant lies! why? cos Mugabe is a black man they failed to controll and they trying to make an example of him so u other black africans stay in ur place as their puppet. Working to enrich them and theirs while u have sh*t.
true the economy is bad right now but thats mainly cos of sanctions any counrty would suffer economically under those kind of sanctions.
WAKE UP PEOPLE!!!
KEEP MY NAME OUT OF YOUR MOUTHS,SNITCHESSS
Never been a fan of jays music, but massive respect to him, he’s changed hip hop, and when noel tried to start a beef, jay was above it and responded in the best way to get the glasto crowd on his side. Brits love a p*ss taker!
Anyone who still reckons rock and hip hop dont mix, look at the Clash in NY in the late 70s/early 80s, they loved your sh*t!
48
jay was not the best performer. That Glastonbury report did not come from some journalist. That report is from a jay-z fan who was there and wrote that on his blog.
Tarisai Makotore
http://en.netlog.com/tarisma4000
@ 66 We all see the beating the scares we hear the stories and its all lies ? Right course it is, people in the country can’t even buy bread, the shelves are empty. They are bein dragged from their families for having the nerve to vote against Mugabe in March. Mugabe made sure he won this time at all cost, Fuck Mugabe and all his supporters
THE GUITAR AND THAT SONG WAS PRICELESS…IT WASN’T MEANT TO BE ENTERTAINING HE WAS MAKING A STATEMENT…..THE PEOPLE WHO SING THE SONG ARE A ROCK BAND AND WERE PISSED THAT JAY WAS HEADING THE SHOW, THEY HAVE COMPLAINED AND PETITIONED HIM FOR MANY MONTHS! SO HE CAME OUT AND DID THEIR SHIT! THE 300,000.00 STRONG ALL WHITE AUDIENCE LOVED IT! PLEASE TELL ME THAT U LOVED PSA! WOW…HOV MADE THEM BELIEVERS!
h.o.v.
@yea
You need to wake up. Mugabe is an evil person and any black African leader will tell you that. Do You think Nelson Mandela likes Mugabe’s politics?
from glastonbury critics:
The reception Jay-Z received makes the pre-show controversy about whether a rap star should headline the festival look faintly quaint and ridiculous.
He carried most of the crowd with him for the full show, with the Pyramid Stage field a sea of waving hands during his hit Hard Knock Life near the end.
It was by far the best reception of the day.
And it was much more exciting than just another Coldplay or Radiohead slot would have been.
Glastometer: 10/10
ha
I was there. Manu Chao was the man as always but Jay-Z did a great show there’s no question about that.
There appeared to be a smaller crowd for Jay-Z, but he was greeted by chants and cheers.
The New York hip-hop star fired up the crowd with an introduction that included a BBC interview in which Oasis star Noel Gallagher said hip-hop was “wrong” for Glastonbury.
Jay-Z then took the stage to the strains of the Oasis hit Wonderwall.
“So they say you guys didn’t want me here to be here tonight,” he said.
“They said you guys weren’t into hip-hop.” The crowd responded by chanting his name to show their support.
Thanks for all the love here tonight,” the star added, saying Glastonbury had “embraced my culture”.
“This is a beautiful moment, I’m glad to share it with each and every one of you,” he said.
The crowd went wild for the star’s hits including 99 Problems, Hard Knock Life and Encore.
He seemed to succeed in winning over the many festival-goers who were unsure about his appearance.
Indie fan James Lucas, 26, wearing a Charlatans T-shirt, said: “It wasn’t my bag – but yes, he was very, very good
“When you see people at the top of their game, it’s worth it.”
Tom O’Shea, 27, from Neath, said it marked “a new era” for the festival.
“It breaks down boundaries and he was amazing in what he did,” he said. “He’s the best rapper in the world.”
Jay-Z’s set sampled songs by U2, Estelle, Rihanna, Amy Winehouse and the Jackson Five.
But one disappointment was the lack of any surprise guests.
His wife Beyonce, Coldplay star Chris Martin, NERD’s Pharrell Williams, LinkinPark, Rihanna and Winehouse had all been rumoured to be joining him on stage.
“I don’t understand the controversy about Jay-Z,” singer Lily Allen said
Silly fans dissing Jay
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44787000/jpg/_44787820_placard_bbc226b.jpg
jay is the MAN. He showed those narrowminded fools that hiphop is the truth.
I was there and I must admit…….I am now a jay-z fan! He was remarkable….the energy was unbelievable!!!!!
What a true talent…..
LONDON EMBRACES HOV!!!!!!!
I don’t know about ya’ll but he killed it, point blank period!!!!
And not to mention that hawt ass freestyle on Estelle’s “American Boy” song. Queen Bey is currently gaurding his family jewels. HA HA! That nigga stupid! Only HOVI BABY!!!
hahaha my man! go Obama..holla!