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 BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Hip-hop 'wrong' for Glastonbury
Noel Gallagher has criticised the decision to have a hip-hop act headlining the Glastonbury Festival. The Oasis guitarist said having rapper Jay-Z at the festival was the reason tickets had not sold out this year. He said it was "wrong" to have a hip-hop headliner and added that organisers had changed things too much. But Hattie Collins, editor of urban music magazine RWD, called Gallagher's ... [link]

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Hip-hop 'wrong' for Glastonbury
Published 4/14/2008 at OH NO!!
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Cuban Linx 4-14-08
Published 4/14/2008 by Rizoh at The Rap Up
=> Comedy Central: The Real’s “Soulja Boyz II Men” mashup [mp3, The Real] => Frank Meyer and his G4TV crew, who’ve blessed us with freestyle after freestyle over the years, have been nominated for a Webby in the Best Music series category. Go vote for them. They truly deserve it [Webby Awards] => More bitchfests over Jay-Z inclusion on the Glastonbury bill [BBC] => Clyde points out that there’s more to that Allido/Interscope marriage that gave birth to ...

NEGRO PLEASE: Noel Gallagher = Jay-Z’s Wonderwall
Published 6/30/2008 by Ron Mexico at XXL
... has a tradition of guitar music and even when they throw the odd curve ball in on a Sunday night you go ‘Kylie Minogue ?’ I don’t know about it. But I’m not having hip-hop at Glastonbury. It’s wrong.” - Noel Gallagher [of Oasis ], BBC News [Blogger’s Note: At some point every week I find myself singing ...

Jay-Z Covers “Wonderwall” and “Rehab” at Glastonbury 2008
Published 6/30/2008 at HYPEFUL
Jay-Z Glastonbury 2008 Wonderwall Oasis cover 99 Problems Jay-Z’s top-billing at Glastonbury 2008 notoriously upset Noel Gallagher of Oasis, who implied having hip-hop at the festival was “ wrong “. Over the weekend, Jay-Z finally got the chance to respond to the criticism by kicking off his setlist wearing a Gallagher-esque parka and covering “Wonderwall.” Later in his set, HOVA broke out a cover of Amy Winehouse’s “Rehab.” Check out both below! MP3s: ...

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Hip hop 'wrong' for Glastonbury

Noel Gallagher says it is "wrong" for a hip hop act to be headlining the Glastonbury Festival.
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