Jay-Z was at Wimbledon today, watching British hero Andy Murray take on world #2 Rafael Nadal in a quarterfinal match.
Fresh off his fairly-awesome, Oasis-baiting performance at Glastonbury (see video below), Jigga was caught by ESPN cameras chowing down on some french fries (or "chips", I guess), bringing to mind another hungry New Yorker captured on tape eating whilst attending at a Grand Slam event.
Jay-Z wasn't that messy; but that's probably because he didn't want to ruin the Sherlock Holmes smoking jacket he had on. This is not Jay's first foray into the racquet sport; he released a mix-tape track entitled "Tennis" a few years back on a lame Reebok-sponsored CD. And I was pretty sure he once dropped a rhyme about Boris Becker in a song, but I couldn't find anything about it on Google.
Wednesday, July 02, 2008
Jigga Man Gets His Costanza On
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I saw this as well and was hoping that somebody got the picture or video or something.
The best part was the guy to his right, with the sunglasses, who didn't move or change expression the entire time the camera was on Jay-Z. Not once.
man that Glastonbury clip is pretty much the best thing ever. at first I was waiting to see what he'd do to stick it to whichever Gallagher brother called him out, but then it occurred to me that all the shots of the hundreds of thousands of cheering fans was probably better than anything he could have come up with.
I kept trying to think of someone to compare the guy in the sunglasses to, but all I could come up with was Andy Warhol after one too many quaaludes.
Oasis-baiting? I think I may have a response to that overweight piece of shit.
First, I've been to then 40/40 Club and its sucks. It's really awful. You can buy a bottle of Sky Vodka for $250 and immediately have 25 people you've never seen before acting like they're you're best friend. Probably the worst club I've ever been to, actually easily the worst. Except for the 4 minutes that they played Wonderwal.
Second, there are 100,000+ people at Glastonbury singing along to Wonderwall in that video. When Jay-Z started "singing" whatever song he perform after there were probably 4,000 people who knew the words. Glastonbury is not a rap festival - which proves Noel's point.
Third, Put a band on stage with guitars, even Coldplay, and everyone is in to it. But, Jay-z played Wonderwall and the crowd loved it, why you ask? Not because some random douche (yes Jay-Z is a douche) strolled onto stage with a guitar, but because Wonderwall is to a brit as the Star-spangled banner is to an American. It's anthemic, he played the crowd's song for them. Have you read anything about the performance after that? No, the show started and ended with the studio version of Wonderwall. The only reason he wasn't ignored was because Noel made people may attention.
Jay-Z did nothing to make fun of Oasis, he would have been booed off stage as he did. Credit him for using it to his advantage. But calling it Oasis-bating is silly. He exploited it for all it was worth. His thank-you card to Noel should be in the mail. If he had done anything disparaging, he would have been run out of the country. You don't mess with the national band.
He knew that and bowed down and found what he thought was an appropriate tribute. Of course he personally sold it as a sophisticated response, but if you believe that, you're an idiot.
Glastonbury will never have a rap headliner ever again...
I quote:
"See me at the US Open, advantage Jigga/ Serve like Sampras, play fake rappers like a campus."
From Can't Knock the Hustle
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