Did He Deliver???
Filed under: Anglophilia > Jay-ZPicking Jay-Z to be one of the headliners of the U.K.'s Glastonbury was highly controversial and heavily criticized.
So…
The music festival came and went this past weekend.
How did Hov do???
CLICK HERE to check out his cover of Oasis's Wonderwall paired with his own 99 Problems (above).
Thoughts????
Posted: June 29, 2008 at 7:35 pm
I love Jay Zee Zee!! and the performance was fire!!
KILLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLED it~ !!!!
WTG JayZ
Wow. that really SUCKED! he totally ruined Wonderwall.
the singing was shit…
but I liked that they included the back in black near the end
umm hello? how daft are you people?
he wasn't trying to credibly cover wonderwall– he was singing it in order to mock noel gallagher, who made comments about how jay-z should not be playing glastonbury. so the fact that this was paired with 99 problems (and a bitch ain't one, duh!) was HILARIOUS. i think he did an amazing job and to open with the oasis song was a satisfying eff you to noel gallagher.
ITS HOVA ALL DAY BABYy
U DOUCHEFUCKS, HE WAS DISSING NOAH BY PLAYING WONDERWALL…HE WASN'T TRYING TO PAY HOMAGE. WONDERWALL IS ONE OF MY FAVES AND IM NOT BEING A WHINY BITCH ABOUT HIM "BUTCHERING IT"
HE KILLLLLLLLLLLLED IT. HATERS SIT DOWN!!! EAT A DICKK WHILE YOU'RE DOWN THEREE
excellent!!!!!!!!!!
I HEART Jay-Z! He is so talanted. By, the way dumbass people, he was singing the song as intro and was playing around with it. He has never claimed to be a singer. Idiots!
Hov is the best rapper out there. Anyone who says otherwise is more loca than Perezito.
Jay NEVER meant to know the words or sing it properly.. He was just giving a big FU to the lead singer of Oasis.. Like you didn't want me here but i'm here and i'm doing your song, and i know i cant sing so suck it…and WHAT!
You people who thought he was REALLY trying to sing and make it sound proper are idiots!
Are you guys fucking stupid or something? Jay-Z KNOWS HE CANT SING, if you dont understand that you truly are retarded. It was just meant as a jab at Liam, perfect to continue with 99 problems where the bitch obviously is Liam.
some of you must be def, because this was absolutely awful, no matter what kind of music you like. from every angle this was really bad. i think my son could have done a better jab and he's 5 years old!
Nice nod to British culture but stick to rapping. 99 problems was great-totally creative layering it on Back in Black.
err…. do people seriously not get that he was taking the piss.
Noel said only guitar music should be at Glast… so he came out with one just to take the piss and he said himself he cannot sing- which is why he let the crowd sing…
and you wonder why the world thinks americans are dumb
Just goes to show. Noel Gallagher was right to criticize the organizers for headlining with Jay Z. His appalling rendition of wonderwall just shows that it takes real talent to perform rock.. let do what he's good at, and that's not rock.
i heart j-hova!!!!! not much of a singing voice, but who else would tackle wonderwall strumming a guitar in the UK?
Dear Lord that was terrible!!!! He RUINED Wonderwall. I could sing it better, and I make people's ears bleed when I sing!!!!!! What a freakin waste! Best rapper my arse!
isntglastonbury always a mudpit of cowpies?
Re: Moman – isn't glastonbury always a muddy pit full of cow-pies?
Jesus guys, Wonderwall wasnt supposed to sound good! Hee was taking the piss.
I was at this show and it was incredible. Best festival headliner ive ever seen!
He was awful! And you give Winehous a bad time at least she has an excuse for sounding drunk… she is.
he freakin sucked im an oasis fan but i didn't hold that agianst him
hes tone deaf!
i can sing 10x better than that and im not even good .
I though it was a pretty hysterical diss after what Noel Gallagher said…and then to follow it up with "99 problems but a bitch/Gallagher ain't one". Brilliant!
OH MY FUCKIN GOD. THIS WAS HORRIBLE.. And I mean HORRIBLE. J should stick to promoting shit and STOP what that crap was. DAMN
UGH That was atrocious. I just do not like this guy.
way to slaughter oasis…the audience sang it better.
stick to rapping jayz.
99 problems was awesome,, but wonderwall hurt my ears
Its much better than Kanye at bonnaroo
woah, not a big hip hop fan but he hit it out of the park! that was pretty much awesome! (k maybe he butchered wonderwall but it was still pretty cheeky lol)
horrible
they should have bottled him londoners c'mon you got amy and pete you are tougher then this monkee
He was absolutley amazing
His performance was amazing…give props for a crossover performance!!
it sounded like bad kareoke
haha, some ppl comments crack me up:)
gotta love jay z for what he does, rap.
the whole singing part…lets just agree to never hear that again.
I like how he made fun of Oasis.
And the crowd seemed to be into him - even knowing the words to his song.
I give him 2 thumbs up.
the wonderwall intro was soo weird, it was almost like jay z was doing a karaoke night drunk and high. awfull!!
Re: notal – racist
this is absolutely terrible
wow…I can't believe so many people think he was actually trying to 'cover' wonderwall. idiots.
One of the gallagher brothers from oasis, no idea which one, was bitching about hip hop being at glastonbury. so in turn, Jay-Z opens his song which says 'i got 99 problems but a bitch ain't one' with the only hit song oasis ever had here. get it?
ive seen college kids at a keg party sing wonderwall better than that. and even they were focusing most of their attention on their beer pong skills
seriously why did he even do that?
jay z is a cocky ass, but oasis is a bunch of whiney fucks. wonderwall is not a classic song. the only time it's remotely listenable is when ryan adams cover it. those brothers are ridiculous. blur was so much better.
Wonderwall was WOEFUL.
Rap just doesn't translate to concerts. That was a perfect example right there. He looked like stupid w/ that guitar not even getting close to getting it right.
COMPLETELY DISGUSTING. he fucked up the words!!! best rapper alive, my ASS. he ruined the song. TERRIBLE!!!!
i love the fact that kid up there…Ja is it? says "the lead singer of oasis" as if you dont even know his name, dont comment if youre an ignorant cunt. waste of space. Jazy-z was as good as he was going to get, there was too much hype - there was so many rumours flying round england yesterday that he'd got Linkin Park to do some collision course shiz and Beyonce was apparently going to show up - so for him to have no guests was a bit of a let down, but apart from that what else was he supposed to do? He hasnt got a clue what we and our festivals are all about - completely agree that he didnt deserve to headline- the only reason he did headline was because hes such a major star in the us - plus Eavis couldnt secure Coldplay and whoever else he wanted - diversity didnt play in his favour this year and the ticket sales reflect it. Jazy -z tried and he provided a luke warm set. No fairer than that. peace out
Horrid…. he totally ruined Wonderwall– he should avoid singing at all costs
Re: me he – Maybe Americans aren't into celebrity gossip as much as we are Me He, so therefore were unaware of Noel's remarks.
Lame! He prob ruined it on purpose to get back at Noel for dissing him as a headliner. Noel Rox.
not good at all. it sounded horrible and was def. lacking entertainment in it. he didn't know the lyrics, wasn't at the mic, and didn't even work the stage all that much. spent more time hugging the guitarist. if they wanted to deliver an act that wasn't typical to what they have had over the past years, they should of gotten someone with high energy that would of delivered like Kanye.
Re: demmi –
that comment has been made but you managed to spectacularly add a new spin of "shit head" on it. well done. prick
THIS WAS HARD TO SIT THROUGH. IT WAS TERRIBLE! AN ABOMINATION TO OASIS FANS ACROSS THE GLOBE. HE DIDNT KNOW THE LYRICS, HE COULDNT SING, THE GUITAR WAS JUST RIDICULOUS HANGING AROUND HIS NECK LIKE AN OVERSIZED CHAIN…. BAD, JUST SO BAD!!!! STICK TO RAPPING Z, CAUSE THAT SUCKED ASS!
Okay, so singing isn 't his forte, but … Jay-Z is still the man!!!!!!!!!!!
i thought that was childish of jay-z. it's noel gallagher for chrissakes, who CARES what he says??
Man, why are people SO fucking stupid? Jay-Z is insulting Noel Gallagher by performing "Wonderwall" followed by "99 Problems" since Gallagher said that Jay-Z and Hip-Hop didn't belong in the festival. Get your heads out of your fucking asses, you daft twats!
Well I think we've learned something today. And that is - rappers cannot sing.
At all.
I don't consider it talent when the best part of your performance was created by AC/DC.
FUCK YEAHHHH!!!! THAT WAS AWESOME. love that guitared out version on 99problems… dude might be married to a creole tranny but he can fucking bring it!
okay so please stop all the hating !!!!!!!! i'm not even one to use curse words but get off the dude's dick !! he did his shit he rocked it and worked his ass odd and if you even bother to listen to his albums you mother&^%as would see he's a genius he Incorparates different styles of musix he overcame so many odds to get were he's at !! and what does his nose have to do with anything ??? he still rich bitch so just cause he's not elton john dont mean you gotta hate he's a black man making half yall piss in yah pants!!
Mario, I'm glad you took my suggestion and followed up on what went on with Jay-Z at Glastonbury. I think he was poking fun and it worked for me.
That fucking douche fucking blew!
ehhh i don't get his hype…he's a total hasbeen…a dude nearing middle age in sagging jeans, a hoodie and trendy scarf? are you kidding me? i liken the need to see this guy to that burning desire most of you idiots have to watch herpes hilton, nicole, lindsay, britney and the lot of other total wretched losers who do nothing more than infect our air supply.
wow i just lost so much respect for jay z.. i dont even like rap but the only rap artists i like are jay z and eminem.. however, why did he even attempt to sing?? That was beyond horrible.. it sounded like the bad, yet hilarious American Idol auditions.
First of all, he looked DAMN GOOD. He can't sing, he knows this. The crowd held that one together, which was beautiful. But 99 Problems? Over the AC/DC track? That was the sickness. Those are two of my fave songs of all time. Thanks for sharing P-Nastay.
ok first off I like jay z but best living rapper of all time, I dont know about that. Anyhoo, I dont think that him "singing" oasis wasnt meant in anyway to be taken seriously. He was just having a bit of fun and knew that everyone in the U.K. would obviously know that song. I thought it was funny! But from the little bit that I did hear, Hova really shouldnt sing! Lol!
Stick the rap, maybe the worse vocal track I have heard
Perfect! Just perfect! Give him a REAL song with REAL instruments and he makes your ears bleed. Let him yell words that rhyme like an angry third grader, and he's KING. Bwaaaahhh Haaaaaa Haaaa! BURGER KING!
DUUUHHH!!! u asses he was basically mocking them being that they were so against him headlining the concert… As u can see he wasn't even really trying to sing the song..
You KNOW He did this because Noel Gallagher said he had no business being at Glasto. Noel Gallagher started a huge frickin' press-war with Jay-Z and pitched a bitch fit, saying he would ruin the festival and only rock bands should show up and that rap sucks and isn't real music, so this was to get back at him. Way to fuck up the song J, you suck BIG time.
Out of tune singing. He could have done alot with that song.
So he's basically telling those whitey's to suck it??
He killed it baby!
OASIS ARE HASBEENS!
He sounds like crap in the first song. Thank goodness the other rapper was there for the second song, so JayZ could be supported vocally, as well as energetically. He's a horrible performer who is all about ego, and not about even thanking his fans for being there. He's a pig!
it was great that he did wonderwall as a slap in the face to oasis who said he should be there… then sang 99 problems but a bitch aint 1 right after it as a big fu to noel! JAyz owned it
JAY-Z WAS AMAZINGGG , I JUST HOPE THE NEXT HIP HOP BAND LIVES UP TO HIS EXPECTATIONS , WELL DONE HOV U ROCKEDD ITT
X
So is Rap taking over England now?
Re: Real – It was a joke idoit! poking fun at that cry baby Liam!!!
i don't think anyone gets this…….
Jay Z did it cause Noel said that hop hop
at Glastonbury was just wrong, that it
was just "guitar music". so what did Jay do?
stuck it to the fucking man.
Although his vocals for wonderwall were pretty bad, I loved the fact that he tried to incorporate guitars into his performance ’cause that's what Noel Gallagher was complaining about. Jay-Z kicked his assss.
LAME!!!!
hmmm. The Oasis intro was kinda awkward….strange choice. Wonder how that came about. The rest was great…but the enthusiastic crowd helped a lot with that
As always…Jay-Z knocked it out!
that is the gayest, lamest thing i have ever seen.
fuckin awesome.
you white idiots!!!!! he is dissing Noel
so wouldn't you sing the song horrible if you dissed someone wouldn't you
you bitches are just jealous
Jay-z killed it
FUCKIN AMAZING
He did Wonderwall for the crowd and let them sing a lot of it, which they did. He ROCKED his own stuff and the crowd got into that too. I would declare it a success. TEAM HOV!
you mean, people still care about him?
people still care about rap music?
that's surprising.
i thought all rappers were dead.
seeing as they love killing people so much.
This is what drunk people do at partys, get trashed and sing songs without trying. Horrible. He was horrible. Who told him this sounded good?
love love LOVE him .. not the best but completely wicket how he changed it up
Ouch!
what the fuck what that about?!
uuuummmmmm…….not so much lol
he was amazing! I love the back in black mix in 99 problems…as always he suprises me and is an amazing peformer! HOVA!
And black people wonder why they "don't get no respect"
Maybe if "all of ya all" start acting like human beings, you will get treated like human beings. Learn how to speak proper English. Learn how to demonstrate class and diplomacy when someone criticizes you.
Jay Z is setting a bad example for all the black kids in the ghettos that want to grow up to be like him. Loser.
How many times habe I tole y'all…??? I'se tole ya, I'se tole ya, and I'se tole ya.
Real singers don't rap.
Example : John Legend. Prince. Ray Charles. Smokey Robinson. Michael Jackson. Usher.
And rappers (note omission of "real", which would be used incorrectly describing what is slang) don't sing. They can't. Or they would.
Example : List too long. (Snoop dawg, Kanye, Akon….that says enough right there. Y'all fill in the resteses.)
Now. THAT is a WRAP…!!! Uuuummmuuummmhhhuuummmm. Hhmmpphh.
I love Jay-z and all but the whole Wonderwall part confuses me. If you're going to cover someone else's song, at least know all the words first. His voice wasn't made for that song at all! He always nails his own music, though.
Jay-Z is amazing. What other rapper could do that? He came out playing electric guitar and singing (albeit not well) "Wonderwall" and then went into "99 Problems" while the band played ACDC's "Back to Black." That is AMAZING! That is why he is one of the best entertainers of his time.
Am I getting old (yes) or have I just noticed the following about this post?
1. Anyone Noel Gallagher disses usually end up with more attention and success than before, cases in point (Blur, Radiohead, Robbie Williams, etc, etc) They should all be sending Noel a f'king thank you card any time he mentions their name.
2. Why is it that the last three or four shows (including the JAY-Z) clips and many other artists I see live today have pre-recorded backing tracks on their songs? Oasis has NEVER had a pre-recorded track when performing live, even when Liam lost his voice mid show Noel finished every song out on lead guitar AND vocals. NOBODY does this or can do this. Name one artist.
3. Both acts have sold over 50 million records worldwide, no question there. Has JAY-Z had 8 #1 songs in the US like Oasis have in the UK? No he hasn't.
I just can't respect acts who have to lipsync. If you can't do 100 shows per tour and sound better live than you do in the studio I say get into a different business.
HE DOESNT EVEN KNOW THE LYRICS TO WONDERWALL. Its so disrespectful that he sang the song when NOEL GALLAGHER was the one who criticized him for being at glastonbury. this was a horrible performance and he didnt belong at glastonbury at all
"JAY-Z, TELL ME HOW MY ASS TASTE?!?" - OASIS
hell no, very sore attempt to patch up the whole Gallagher situation.