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
weak
pretty sad that is all he has got
he is not the best anything
It would be nice if Jay Z quit making public appearances…he sucks and he's really hard to look at.
First of all, if you are going to do a cover of a song you should definitely make sure you know ALL of the words. That was pretty bad. He could have done WAY better. Definitely not worth all the hype.
yeah, and you say amy's bad?! jay-z doesn't hit one f*cking note!
Steven Tyler does not look like an idiot. He is old as hell. The British kill me. They want to be accepted by the U.S, but say our artist suck. If you don't value our opinions don't come here. Do we really need you, or is it the other way around.
He rocked. To all of the idiots it was a diss. (Diss-to put one down) Are you all so dumb that you don't get the meaning of a word that was created in the 90's.
Amy Winehouse suck's, becuase of her drug problem. I still think that she is talented. Give the man credit. He is on his way to becoming a billionare. How many of you are on the same path.
While I'm not on his level, I'm trying to be and not talking about how he sucked.
Putting other's down SUCK'S. Creating money does not.
I think Jay Z was sort of mocking Oasis…it is fun to do afterall…While I may not like 99 problems (video depicts pitbulls fighting and Jay z sucks for that) I do think for the most part it was a good performance.
i love rap. i LOVE jay z.
but this performance was L-A-M-E. actually, i've never seen a good live rap performance. rap absolutely sucks live. why?? why must it suck? what are they doing wrong? get it together boys and girls. rap need not suck this bad.
it sucked big time
he doesn't know how to play the guitar and sing yet…….but with more practice I'm sure Mr. Beyonce can be way better.
This SUCKED! What a douchebag!
People stop being so ignorant if you can't tell he was joking something is truly wrong with you. Oh my God he killed the Oasis song wah wah wah when if you look at the video you can tell he wasn't even trying. Also to those hating on him his nose and he ghetto and whatever remember Jay-z can buy and sell your ass so your hating on perez hilton really ain't phasin him. Let me remind you that man said he got 99 problems but bitches aren't one of them so get over it…
Dear Lord, could he be anymore tone deaf?
How thick are you lot? It was a piss take it wasn't supposed to be good.
stick to rappin hov,
his 99 luft balloons/99 problems mix is WAY better than this.
JAYZ fucking Killed IT!!! He delivered like always.
LOVED IT! Hov has still got it
Jay Z has come so far!
weak…
SICK! that was incredible. worth it for Glastonbury
How is he getting revenge by covering an Oasis song and then follow it by ripping off an AC/DC song?? I can't wait to hear Noel comment on that!
Ya he delivered!! when does he not?
not the best singer, but never afraid to try something new.
Talented as f*ck and an incredible performer.
HOVA HOVA HOVA!
That was the worst thing to ever happen to music. If he really wanted to show the critics that he belonged at Glastonbury, he should have been a professional and did the song some justice (considering that Wonderwall has been celebrated as one of the greatest songs ever written).
Jay-Z is a cunt and a talentless hack. This performance was total shite.
He was awesome! He rocked.
I don't get why JayZ is even a celebrity????? He's so ugly and talentless. Why would Beyonce want to marry him?? She could do so much better. He needs to stay behind the scenes,a nd stay OUT of the public eye!
He needs to loop more Wonderwall
Gay-Z really was trying to be smart singing a classic Oasis number to an English crowd. Too bad his band is wack, he is irrelevant, and wear heavy clothes in hot English weather. What a turd. A singing turd. He secretly likes trannies like Eddie Murphy. That's why he married the closet thing to one-Beyonce.
Um, the wonderwall thing was a joke because Oasis was pissed he was invited to perform. It was funny. a joke. haha. why would you be asking people to rate his whole set on that?
people, of course he can't sing! he's a rapper! plus, he had evidently taken something so his singing can't have been good anyways.
it was still good, in the rap part.
WTF??? That was painful to watch. If he wasn't going to do that amazing song justice he should have kept his trap shut or strictly stuck to his own shitty songs. His performance really angers me and it makes me sad to know that people knew he was going to deface such an awesome song and let him do it. Shame, shame, shame.
Wonderwall was absolutely crap!
BORING. As much as I hate Oasis I agree with them. He shouldn't have been on the bill at that festival. Keep him in LA
jay-z rocked it as usual!!!! Oh and he did that by performing wonderfall/it's a laugh at the hater(leader of Oasis) that siad hip hop acts shouldn't be performing there! Go HOV!!!!
you people who say his singing sucked are dipshits. you totally missed his point. he wasn't trying to pull the best performance of wonderwall. he was totally deflating their song and then making it his bitch with "99 problems". What does oasis do then? come out like a tool with wonderwall. he showed oasis for what they truly are: irrelevant nostalgia
To all the people that have said Jay-Z murdered Wonderwall you are all
RE-TAR-DED! Seriously!? Are you people that slow. Before I read peoples comments explaining that he was taking a dig at Noel Gallager, it was obvious to anyone with even half a brain that he was joking! Hello! What kind of performer that has any kind of pride in what they do would seriously perform like that? I mean, besides Amy Whinehouse and the Gallager boys. You people make England which is supposed to be so civilized and better than us raunchy, rowdy Americans sound like a place that is more racist and elitist than Southern rednecks and Nazis. Again look at some of your own country's exports that come to "perform" and they're too high and/or belligerent to actually put on a show. *coughs* Whinehouse/Oasis. Take your tea drinking butts off your high horse and come back down to reality cuz I see you're not all that smart and civilized as you pretend to be. I mean he didn't even sing into the mic half the time and was smiling trying not to laugh the entire time for goodness sake! And when I read he was dressing up like Noel it all made sense. Oasis made one great record like ten years ago and you people act like they're God. Please! Get over yourselves. I like Amy more than them. If she could stay sober for a good period she's already better than them. Lighten up people.
Oh please!
Anyone can "talk" Wonderwall. Jay-Z better stick to rapping and leave the singing to those who can!
Jay was AMAZING. I watched the whole broadcast, and he got me into it like never before. I was skeptical but he truly blew other performances out of the water. At Wonderwall thing was a JOKE people, so all this 'OMG WTF HE CAN EVEN PLAY GUITAR.SING' just shows how stupid you people are.
Brilliant performance in my opinion.
MIND BLOWING.
Re: ace – how can you defend this tasteless act? You must be a black person trying to justify that you all are not a bunch of out of control classless garbage.
people know it is a joke, and they don't think it's funny.
I don't care how much money this monkey has…he will never have class. Nevaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
dude…he CANNOT sing…i couldn't watch more than 10 seconds, it was PAINFUL. Stick to rappin Mr Beyonce!
He sang the fucking song b/c the lead singer of the oasis was talking shit about him earlyer in the day. So he sang it like that for a reason. J killed it
that was stupid and pointless. Just awkward to even watch. He must be profoundly full of himself to act and sound like such a jackass, butchering one of the most loved songs of all time- with an "i don't give a fuck" attitude. Some class would be nice. Way to go Jay-Z! You need to be on your knees sucking Lil' Wayne's pee pee.
he just wanted to appease critics and the audience by playing a 'rock'? song by a uk band first before easing into his shit.
Re: shard – Wow shard are you 212 or are have you managed to still think in such closed minded ways bc you really believe that you are superior to a African American. you are pretty fucking lame.
having rap, hip hop or any form of r&b is rock music giving honor to their roots from the blues and basically every black musician who ever graced the stage.
I am so sick of white people biting the african american culture and swag and then criticizing us!
Singing wonderwall was a joke–not an attempt to break into the singing industry. more importantly as an artist, jay z can do whatever the fuck he wants. dumbass!
get off black peoples dicks so tough and maybe he wouldn't have even been at the festival!
Re: nappi – you are a dumb bitch!
are you kidding??? this sucks ass!!!! whateva….the crits were right. solid.
jay "singin" wonderwalls was an obvious diss to oasis for talking about him being a headliner, i dont know why people arent catching on to that,of course hes not gonna sing it well, but his own song was hot
lol Bitch muthafucka, trying to clown Noel by playing a wank ass version of Wonderwall….lol, backfired on his ass, you can hear the lot of festival goers SINGING EVERY FUCKIN WORD to that song, an OASIS song,…dumb ass later on forgets his own words to 99problems and you can hear the crickets jumping throught the Glasto mud fields…. Thanks J-Z for givin Oasis more media attention and making yourself look lamer than what we already see you are. Mr. Beyonece, however the fuck you spell her name, needs to get some vocal lesson on top of all that.
MAD FER IT!!!
Stick to what he knows.
I had high hopes though- he could've done a decent cover if he tried.
Re: nappi –
What an appropriate name for such a simple-minded person. For your information I'm actually of Irish and German descent and I know that's too difficult for someone as retarded as you to figure out so let me tell you in simple terms: I'm white. Unfortunately, you probably are too. I cringe when I think that I belong to the same general racial group as an ignorant, KKK subscribing, waste of human life like you. I really do think we should be divided into two groups: classy, intelligent, educated people like me and trailor trash, ignorant racists like you.
It's sad because most people that are racist like you, are that way just because they're jealous someone that isn't white has more money, intelligence and talent than you, which I'm sure isn't difficult to achieve. And half the time even if they are white, they're still jealous. If you would get off your lazy hate-filled butt, you too could have a descent life for yourself but you'd rather live your pathetic existence and hate others to make yourself feel like a member of the human race instead of the monkey that you are.
And by the way, you clearly can't read and/or have no sense of perception because if you did you would see that the vast majority of people that didn't like Jay-Z's perofrmance said it was because he messed up Wonderwall which they wouldn't have said if they knew it was a joke. The ones that knew it was a joke either liked or disliked the joke but still enjoyed his rap performance.
I love Jay Z. Now I'm a die hard rap fan. I can't stand Oasis …so its agood thing he took a mean shit on the "Wonderland" and then let them know the real " 99 Problems"…
White people need to stop being so scared of black people and music. I mean without black music…there wouldn't be any music worth hearing..
Think I'm joking….how come white people have no rhythm? Beats me everytime.
i think the whole oasis cover was merely a lousy attempt to be brit and indie enough for glastonbury, cause he really isn't.
and i like how the audience was happier with just singing along by them selves to wonderwall karaoke, than with the actual performance.
Jay, you should stick to rounging beyoncé.
I am sorry that was a joke.
stick to rap, my god he didnt even know the song. A shitty version of karaoke, the guitar was ridiculous
i don't know.. i mean, i absolutely love oasis and wonderwall is one of my favorite songs. but we can barely hear jay-z singing sooo even if he was doing this out of mockery, he didn't do such a good job. then again, he did get the crowd going! 99 problems was pretty cool.. i'm not a fan of rap, but i appreciate the music nonetheless and i think that jay-z has a lot of talent in this area.
peace
i think he doesn't sound bad while singing, but you should probably learn the lyrics!! if you're going to "sing" then you need to sing it all, i feel like he only sang certain words that made it look like he was singing the words he only knew…..99 prblems was BAD ASS though!!!!
Re: Ja – And judging by his performance of Wonderwall, it didn't work. He just showed everyone who saw it why this fest should be strictly for rock acts. In rap there is no melody, and that audience mostly expressed displeasure at having to see Jay Z headline. I like him though but neither he nor should any other rapper ever sing cuz 99% of them sound horrendously shitty and it's such a turnoff.
Bloody brilliant!
I love when artists cover songs from different genres, but in the case of Jay-z….shits weak! He could have atleast learned the song, and not had the audience sing it for you him. His effort was just plan RUDE!
okay, since i'm a huge fan of oasis, i was really hoping that he wouldnt just kill this song.
but as soon as he got some of the words wrong it ruined it for me.
not that i wouldve liked it anyways.
oh, and his his singing sucked.
He ruined the song…
IT WAS A JOKE. The lead singer from Oasis talked a lot of shit about Jayz in papers and said he was the reason the concert wasn't selling tickets.
As a response, to give A MIDDLE FINGER FUCK YOU to Oasis, without just coming out as using words, Jay'z SHIT on their song and immediately followed it with 99 problems but a BITCH (lead singer of oasis) aint one
It is sad that that has to be explained and you people think he was actually trying to sing.
EW WTF HE TOTALLY KILLED SUCH A CLASSIC!! UGHHH STICK TO RAP MUSIC PLEASE…….. IM TIRED OF ALL THESE RAPPERS THINKING THEYRE SOOO INTO ROCK MUSIC! AFTER GUITAR HEROE & THAT SONG PARTY LIKE A ROCK STAR ALL THESE BLACK PEOPLE DO IS CLAIM THEIR LOVE FOR ROCK SO MUCH!! EWWW GIVE ME A BREAK … STICK TO WHAT UR GOOD AT!
I think you should explain Jay-Z did this cover of Wonderwall after lead singer of Oasis complained about him being a headliner– saying Glastonbury is a guitar festival..
I think Jay-Z is hilarious and this was a great way to say F-off to him… He is my new hero!
ok, he has recorded several albums, so he obviously knows that he needs to SING INTO THE MICROPHONE! why did he forget that rule of thumb during this performance? you can't even fucking hear him half the time. you people that say he was awesome must be a little touched in the head.
fucking crap. just proves that only losers are into no talent hip hop singers, and i use that term singer very loosely. any no talent can make millions ,hell my dog could rap and you all would think it was great. she has the same amount of "talent" as people like jay z. what the hell has happened to real music. and if i shut my eyes and pray really, really hard will all this crap go away.
If that song didnt suck before sure does now!
that was bad.
I LOVE HIM!!!!
He really needs to stick to rapping..
He obviously wouldnt be the best singer coz he is a rapper! he did 'wonderwall' because he was heavily crtitisized by noel gallagher and this was just a way to say "im here bitches"!!! the rest of his performance was awesome!
Sucked. Jay Z has no talent. He can't play guitar either.
It doesn't matter that he cant sing, it wasnt meant to be good it was meant to be a fuck you to noel gallagher because he said Jay Z shouldnt be headlining because he doesnt do guitar music. He did guitar music n it sucked!
Stick to rapping you hack. You don't have any talent. You're just a hustler. It's a shame the U.S. doesn't have any younger artists with talent. U.S. needs another British invasion.
Re: JAY Z –
Your ignorant, retarded self must be related to Dan "potatoe" Quayle cuz you clearly didn't make it very far in school not knowing how to spell an elementary word like hero as opposed to heroe. Get the @*#! outta here with your illiterate self.
P.S. I'm sure you're too stupid to understand what I'm referencing, so google it you idiot. And while you're at it, learn how to write complete and readable sentences. You should also learn your music history before you accuse anyone of stealing anything, you reject. Rock is derived from the blues and jazz. If you don't want to end up like this ignorant jerk, STAY in school kids, stay in school.
He killed the song no wait he butchered it for sure.
He doesnt know the song
He let the track do all the "singing" for him
Its too slow for him
For shit cant play a guitar it probably wasnt even hooked up to an amp
Fucking tone deaf
I thought he retired he fucking should stay that way
Killing other peoples masterpiece
dumb ass camel
FIRST OF ALL! Jay-Z could of never sung that shit if he didn't get permission from that band! Second, we all know Jay-Z is not fucken singer, so give him a break for incorporating it in the 99 problems.
You guys are idiots. JZ was playing wonderwall shitty on purpose. Apparently you are not aware of his fued going on with Noel. Oasis are complete assholes and what JZ did was HILARIOUS.
He's the BEST!!!!!
He's the BEST!!!!!
HAS THE THOUGHT THAT HE MAYBE DID BUTCHER WONDERWALL ON PURPOSE CROSSED YOUR THICK MIND? tHE IDEA THAT NOEL GALLAGHER BUTCHERED THE FACT THAT JAY WAS GONNA DO GLASTONBURY? HE WAS MAKING A POINT THERE YOU MORONS. AND HE ROCKED.
HAS THE THOUGHT THAT HE MAYBE DID BUTCHER WONDERWALL ON PURPOSE CROSSED YOUR THICK MIND? tHE IDEA THAT NOEL GALLAGHER BUTCHERED THE FACT THAT JAY WAS GONNA DO GLASTONBURY? HE WAS MAKING A POINT THERE YOU MORONS. AND HE ROCKED.
The reason he sang wonderwall is because Oasis were like the people who said that he should not perform at glastonbury && btw he is an awesome performer
This is pitiful.
Really - who does he think he is? What an arrogant ass. I've always hated him, and the fact that he dared to make a mockery of Oasis just because of their opinions makes me despise him.
Why do rappers always have to make "beef"? What a baby.
Everyone should know he can't sing. Just listen to "Beautiful" when he sings "I wish I never met her at all". It's f-ckin terrible.
This shows how stupid the majority of people that read this site are. Can you not see that he is taking the piss out of Oasis?!
His set was amazing, the crowd loved it. He is a pioneer for Hip Hop music taking it to a festival that did not want him there and leaving as a hero!
i was there, had to go early though! he was good, but there were more people for amy winehouse, which is odd seeing as he was the headliner! kindof proved that people would have preferred oasis by making every1 sing wonderwall at the beginning though!!
he can't sing. overrated
Fucking shithouse….
the greatest rapper living today - my ass
Re: daz – YES YES YES TO THE COUP DAZ! JAY-Z IS SOCCER MOM RAP.
if you can't even do a good job mocking neil gallagher, you need to leave the stage.
Dunca, agreed. Morons! Jay-Z only sang Wonderwall because Noel Gallagher slagged him off for being the Glasto headliner. It was funny, in fact, kind of a British thing to do.
I was there and he was amazing! His set was so polished and professional, without doubt better than that shambles before him that was Amy Winhouse!
that sucked big time!omg:(!
OH GOD! NOEL GALLAGHER WAS RIGHT! "IF IT AIN'T BROKE, DON'T FIX IT" WHY JAY WAS PERFORMING THIS YEAR IS BEYOND ME, TICKETS DIDN'T SELL AS THEY DID IN THE PAST, IT WAS JUST PLAIN WRONG. I JUST HOPE THEY DON'T REPEAT THE SAME MISTAKE AGAIN.
HAHA THAT SURE BACKFIRED! HE WAS GOING TO DISS NOEL GALLAGHER BUT THE WHOLE AUDIENCE STARTED SINGING WONDERWALL.
)) NOTE TO JAY Z: HONEY, YOU CAN'T DISS OASIS, ESPECIALLY NOT IN EUROPE! JEEZ, YOU'VE GOT A LOT TO LEARN! ALSO, THE LAST THING YOU NEED JAY, IS GALLAGHER AS AN 'ENEMY', SIMPLY BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE GOING TO SIDE (MORE) WITH HIM. CHECK YOURSELF, MAN!
Re: BEIGN – Tru Dat! Jay-Z IS soccer mom rap! Thanks for putting it so succinctly.
Sweet and short: HE DID NOT DELIVER! I'm sorry to say……..
Re: Shann –
DO YOU HONESTLY THINK NOEL GALLAGHER WOULD GIVE JAY PERMISSION TO BUTCHER HIS SONG?!? HONESTLY, DUD, WHAT THE F? JAY Z MAY WIN BATTLES IN HIS OWN GAME–RAP, BUT HE CAN NOT, I REPEAT–HE CAN NOT SAY ANYTHING AGAINST GALLAGHER AND EXPECT PEOPLE TO AGREE. IF ANYTHING THEY'LL THINK HE'S MORE OF A DOUCHE. I KNOW I DO.
this fucker raps because he CANT sing as do all rappers
NOEL GALLAGHER AND OASIS LIVE FOREVER!
Sexy as fuck what more can I say!!!!
HE SUCKS