Jay-Z tonight

[eastlondonseagull]

200 apparently. Not bad out of 140,000. Especially when you think the next biggest festival in only 70,000.

Totally, it's still an amazing festival. It'll probably be better for the slight crowd reduction, anyway.

I think Massive Attack are on atm, too, so no doubt there'll be a big crowd there. You're right, re: Macca, he was really really pants. But I would normally expect the crowd to be a little more excited.

Personally, my most memorable Glasto performance was Underworld in 1999, in the middle of the afternoon, on the Pyramid. Blew me away.

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[Braders]

see i'm a massive Jay-Z fan but this is quite frankly EMBRASSASING

he's done a few of his decent tracks okish and now ripping apart other peoples tracks and making them utter,utter turd!

i can't watch this , yet can't turn off!

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

to be honest i can't see why anyone would bother standing in a crowd just to boo someone

if you don't like his music, then fine, go and watch someone else (i think massive attack are on at the same time?) but why bother standing there just to abuse?!

 

[eastlondonseagull]

to be fair they did only call him the greatest hip-hop artist ALIVE

Aye, and that's bollocks, too. Christ, there are hundreds of better rappers. Chuck D and Big Daddy Kane are still alive aren't they?!

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[turienzo's lovechild]

Aye, and that's bollocks, too. Christ, there are hundreds of better rappers. Chuck D and Big Daddy Kane are still alive aren't they?!

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yep, i wasn't saying i agree with that statement

as for chuck d, can't really see PE headlining at glasto can you?! as awesome as they are/were

 

[eastlondonseagull]

see i'm a massive Jay-Z fan but this is quite frankly EMBRASSASING

he's done a few of his decent tracks okish and now ripping apart other peoples tracks and making them utter,utter turd!

i can't watch this , yet can't turn off!

That's the main reason I hate Jay-Z (and much of this commercial hip hop / 'r&b' these days) - it's the lazy stealing of other people's tracks. It's not clever sampling.

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[turienzo's lovechild]

That's the main reason I hate Jay-Z (and much of this commercial hip hop / 'r&b' these days) - it's the lazy stealing of other people's tracks. It's not clever sampling.

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jay-z is bad for that aye, worse however, is kanye west! he's a proper sample whore

 

[eastlondonseagull]

yep, i wasn't saying i agree with that statement

as for chuck d, can't really see PE headlining at glasto can you?! as awesome as they are/were

Sorry, I knew you weren't! PE at Glasto would be AMAZING, though!

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[eastlondonseagull]

jay-z is bad for that aye, worse however, is kanye west! he's a proper sample whore

Yup. Kanye's sample Satan

Was it him who did that terrible track based on Bruce Hornsby & The Range?! So lazy!

Here's Jay-Z's wholesale theft of Sunday Bloody Sunday, now

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[turienzo's lovechild]

Sorry, I knew you weren't! PE at Glasto would be AMAZING, though!

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true that! some renditions of a few 'it takes a nation of millions to hold us back' classics would literally leave me jizzing in my pants

 

[Gully]

Watched a bit of Glasto earlier, saw the Black Kids, Wombats and Manu Chao...all pretty good, Jay-Z ain't my thing so I am giving him a miss.

 

[eastlondonseagull]

true that! some renditions of a few 'it takes a nation of millions to hold us back' classics would literally leave me jizzing in my pants

Absolutely. I never had the guts to see PE live when I was a kid - thought about getting tickets to see them at Brixton Academy in '88, I think, but none of my mates were into hip-hop, and there was no way I was going on my tod

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[Braders]

That's the main reason I hate Jay-Z (and much of this commercial hip hop / 'r&b' these days) - it's the lazy stealing of other people's tracks. It's not clever sampling.

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it's not even that , thats now part of the game it seems in hip hop/ r&b , but it's just lazy swapping a few words around for a fair few tracks off different artists including the likes of Kayne , Rhianna etc... who like you said just basically sample other peoples work

it's MADNESS i tells you , MADNESS...

 

[eastlondonseagull]

Zane Lowe kissing ass

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[CHAPPERS]

I think you'll find the reason that he did a lot of covers was that most people there will only have heard a few of his more recent tracks. He was there to entertain the crowd and he succeeded in a very big way. The guy is probably the most all round entertaining hip hop mc in the world, though he's definitely not the most talented. Why so much hate? He smashed it up.

 

[Basil Fawlty]

Yesterday performance wasn't his best, some of his own tracks sounded good. But taking apart the other songs espically Oasis. It was absolutely shit.

 

[Raphael Meade]

jay-z totally pulled it off.
the intro and all the set i managed to catch were f***ing great... massive crowd out there for him too. everyone i spoke to loved it.

 

[n1 gull]

Jay-Z totally rocked it. I loved every second of it.

 

[eastlondonseagull]

Why so much hate?

Good question - I dunno the answer. It's probably an irrational hatred all in all, but he just totally winds me up, you know how some people really make you go f***ing nuts? He's one of them. Something about his arrogance - if he had talent, then I could understand him being arrogant (although I wouldn't like it), but imo he's a lousy, commercial artist, who's got an amazing marketing team and somehow sells a few records.

Each to his own, though - N1 Gull and Raphael Meade loved the gig, I thought it was gash, apart from that Punjabi MC track.

I do think he shot himself in the foot with his Oasis piss take, though. The crowd clearly LOVED 'Wonderwall', singing along to it, the noisiest they were all night. He tried to stick the finger up at Gallagher, but the crowd actually gave him the bird.

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[Cheeky Monkey]

Forget Jay-Z, Dizzee Rascal with Calvin Harris yesterday was absolutely amazing, as was the rapper with Hot Chip.