Hip-hop is generally the story of the underdog triumphing - at Glastonbury, Jay-Z proved that's still the case. Granted, as one of the world's wealthiest entertainers, married to one of the world's most highly-regarded stars, Jay-Z makes a pretty unlikely sort of underdog. But his virtuoso mixture of hardcore hip-hop and naked crowd-pleasing at this event made the pre-festival media grumbling of Noel Gallagher and every other quipster manqué seem pretty silly, and badly intentioned. So it is that Jay-Z continues his welcome, if temporary UK residence. Really, you imagine this is now simply about new challenges: having succeeded, retired, come back and made records with the biggest hitters in most musical disciplines, perhaps a UK audience is simply the next obstacle to be surmounted.
Surely, it has to be said that it'll be no problem - but the urge to say "I told you so" must be overpowering.
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