June 30, 2008
Jay-Z Making History at Glastonbury
Glastonbury 2008 Festival has witnessed the amazing performance of Jay-Z, the first hip hop artist ever attending the World’s most famous festival. According to the BBC, providing full coverage of the event, Jay-Z literally made Glastonbury bounce on June 28th 2008, day in which he inscribed his name in history as the greatest rapper alive.
Glastonbury or popularly nicknamed as “Glasto,” is an annual festival in South England that presents the best of the performing arts worldwide. From June 27 to June 29th, Jay-Z headlined Glastonbury with an impressive Pyramid stage set.
The night before Glastonbury, Jay-Z was rapping at The Marquee Cork a gig where only “good-natured” gentleman use to appear onstage and making the crowd sings “I hear the rebel boyz in the house tonight,” as soon as he arrived to that place.
People indeed heard one of the rebel boyz, the American rapper that is now part of Glastonbury’s history. Jay-Z was born Shawn Corey Carter on December 4, 1969, another date to put into history. Considered as one of the most financially successful hip hop artists and entrepreneurs, Jay-Z as rapper has sold 50 million units worldwide and 26 million copies in the United States alone.
Despite all the criticism before his performance Jay-Z sold out Glastonbury on Saturday Night and his performance entering the stage with Oasis’ “WonderWall” song and “stealing” the show with “99 problems” was broadcast live by BBC Three? in what it is considered as the most talked about headlining performance in history of the Glastonbury festival.
