Jay-Z at the Glastonbury Festival, 2008
No rapper had ever headlined a night at Glastonbury, and Jay-Z's booking was subject to open opposition. Mocking the haters, he opened his set with covers of Oasis and Amy Winehouse songs. Jay-Z proved the festival wasn't just about "the tradition of guitar music" as the crowd of 150,000 chanted along with the entire set and established that hip hop wasn't a sidebar to anything.
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These recordings can be found at the Rock Hall's Library and Archives, but you can also click the links to see if they are available at a library near you!
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