- by Jason Gregory
- Tuesday, April 15, 2008
- Photo by: WENN
- filed in: Festivals Hip Hop
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Glastonbury organiser Emily Eavis has defended the festivals decision to employ US rapper Jay-Z as one of its headline acts.
Writing in the Independent, Eavis said that she was “delighted” to “have the greatest living hip-hop artist on at Glastonbury.”
Eavis rejected claims from critics who had said that Jay-Z was the first hip-hop artist to perform at the festival.
She also denied that he had been asked to perform so that the festival could reach a new audience.
“That is just not the case,” Eavis wrote. “It is much simpler than that: we respect Jay-Z as an amazing artist and so, obviously, we want to see him at the festival.”
Jay-Z will headline this year’s festival, which takes place from June 27th-29th, alongside The Verve and Kings of Leon.
Tickets for the festival are still available for fans who have pre-registered via the Glastonbury website.
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- “have the greatest living hip-hop artist on at Glastonbury”
What a load of shite!!!! So, the Sugar Hill Gang never existed then??!!
Jay-Z??!! Hahahahahhahahahhaa what a fuckin pleb!
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- Emily, u’ll never get in Jay’s pants, coz that’s the only reason u could have ignored ure fanbase sooo badly... and Beyonce would open a can of bootyshake all over u if u did.
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