Glastonbury Festival 2008 on to their money. The event did eventually sell out, although the final tickets were sold on the opening Friday. It was announced on 1 February 2008 that Jay-Z would headline Glastonbury Festival in 2008, becoming the first major hip-hop artist to headline the British festival. His selection 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 An outspoken critic of his selection was Noel Gallagher of Oasis fame. In response to Gallagher's
The Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival installation of the acclaimed Festival – a week of lectures, workshops, exhibitions screenings and the world-famous concert. 2018 marks the 20th anniversary of the release of 'Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star' (Yasiin Bey & Talib Kweli), the only album released by the two legends as Black Star. Organizers are ecstatic about the headliners of the finale concert as well as the expanded programming of the Hip-Hop Institute. In a world where Hip-Hop headlines festivals all over the world, dominate the Grammys, leads the new streaming economy, the Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival (BHF) is proud to be one of