It was controversially announced earlier this history making(Obama wins the presidency) year on February 2, 2008 that Jay-Z would headline Glastonbury Festival in 2008, becoming the first major hip-hop artist to headline the British festival.He was blamed by some for relatively slow ticket sales for the festival,although a more likely cause is the preceding run of terrible weather and flooding that in 2007 made life at the festival very difficult.One of the more outspoken critics of his selection was Noel Gallagher of Oasis fame. In response to Gallagher's criticism, Jay-Z opened his Glastonbury set with a tongue-in-cheek cover of Oasis's iconic song Wonderwall.His Glastonbury performance was heralded as a successful response to pre-festival criticism.He also headlined many other summer festivals in 2008, including Roskilde Festival in Denmark, Hove Festival in Norway and O2 Wireless Festival in London.
Jay-Z also stated that after he finishing touring he's going to start another album.Timbaland has previously stated that he will be producing the entire album. Recently, however, Jay-Z went on record to say that it is not guaranteed to be a full Timbaland production.
During Kanye West's August 6 concert at Madison Square Garden, Jay-Z came out to perform a new song and he and Kanye proclaimed that it was to be on The Blueprint and more recently Jay-Z and hiphop rapper/producer Kanye West pen a song called "History" which refernences our new president elect Obama,Jay Z speaks about Barack Obama’s victory a couple nights ago with Angie Martinez from Hot 97fm online is where you can listen and download this interveiw hiphop is not dead not by a longshot its about to go 2-DA-NEXT-LEEVEL on a very positive note and we all can thank our universal creator the Great "Iam That Iam" for the change thats come to pass for us all.
