Travels Jay-Z with personal toilet roll

Members of rock band Kasabian have revealed that rapper Jay-Z when he travels carries his own toilet roll.
At the T in the Park the 99 Problems hitmaker stunned fellow performers Scottish music festival when they spotted him backstage with his own luxury items including personal toilet paper, reports contactmusic.com.
"I noticed at T that he had a huge circus around him, his own toilet and his own toilet paper... That's what we're aiming for next. Our own loo roll," said Kasabian singer Tom Meighan.

Personal Toilet Jay Z

'Jay-Z takes his own toilet roll to festivals' rockers Kasabian were amazed to learn.
Jay-Z takes his own toilet roll everywhere with him.
The '99 Problems' hitmaker stunned fellow T in the Park performers Kasabian at the Scottish festival currently when they spotted him backstage, and the 'Fire' rockers now claim they will only feel famous when they get to the same level of access to luxury items.
Kasabian singer Tom Meighan revealed: "The reason Kasabian aren't as big as Jay-Z yet? We need to have our own festival toilet paper
"I noticed at T that he had a huge circus around him, his own toilet and his own toilet paper.
"That's what we're aiming for next. Our own loo roll and then we'll know we're massive."
Jay-Z - who caused controversy when he became the first hip hop artist to headline the world famous Glastonbury festival in 2008 has previously admitted he finds performing at multi artist shows a "challenge."
He said: "At festivals, some people are there to see you, some people are there to see the act before you, some people have no idea who you are. So how do you take that audience of all those different people and make them focus on one point? That's the challenge."

Jay Z: Jay-Z to launch JLS in the US?

Jay-Z is planning to launch JLS in the States, according to reports.The rapper and music mogul is said to have vowed to take them to the US after hearing their new single 'The Club Is Alive' at Dublin's Oxygen festival, The Mirror reports. A source told the newspaper: "He was heard telling pals how much he digs JLS's sound and how it reminded him of a modern day Boys II Men and Jodeci. JLS's song was playing backstage a lot over the weekend and he got excited about them."He knows good talent when he hears it, and is not beating around the bush on getting things kick started with them Stateside."It was currently reported that Jay-Z had signed UK rapper Tinchy Stryder to his Roc Nation label.

Jay-Z, Wireless Festival, Hyde Park, London

Jay-Z is not a humble man, nor should he be. A colossus of modern urban music, he has achieved a level of popularity in the industry and with all walks of the public unrivalled by his contemporaries. What was clear from his performance at London's Wireless festival was that he didn't scale these heights through charm alone.
The rapper was a distant paragon, with an on stage demeanour that remained cool and aloof, and left a previously clamouring crowd slightly disinterested. There was nothing tangible to be annoyed with, however, with a comprehensive setlist that spanned Jay-Z's impressive back catalogue and incorporated a nice 15 years of high-calibre hip-pop.
Opening with current hit "Run This Town", Jay-Z launched into a set that was, of course, biased toward his latest album and which started about ten minutes late. In the annals of megastar divadom this is no big deal, but the 10-minute countdown which flashed up seemed to put people's backs up – a reaction that Jay-Z likely wasn't expecting. Wireless isn't actually the venue for nerve-tautening pyrotechnics or flashiness; people just wanted to sing along.
When an artist's back catalogue encompasses so many immediately recognisable numbers, you don't expect to stand through many indulgent moments, but Jay-Z remained impassive behind sunglasses throughout, and played quickly through curtailed versions of "99 Problems" and "Izzo" while lingering on more esoteric album tracks from the currently released The Blueprint 3. It seemed the perfect set up for a gig aimed at die hard fans, but less well suited to the rather more diffuse crowd at a city festival.
That said, Jay-Z's performative bravado and righteous hubris are integral to his status, as is the coterie of artists that he has nurtured into superstardom – protégés Memphis Bleek and J Cole joined him on stage in Hyde Park, and added a sense of occasion previously lacking. From the opening strains of "Empire State of Mind" all was forgiven, though Jay-Z still didn't much look like he had warmed to us. Maybe he was homesick for his own "concrete jungle"; there was certainly none of the pro-London patter that American artists usually like to shower Brit crowds with – which, patronising though it may be, makes for a certain entente cordiale.

Will There Be Beef? Spike Lee and Jay-Z

The New York Times tries to start a little trouble today with a piece in the "Sports" section titled “Jay-Z vs Spike Lee.” It’s all about the brewing competition between the Knicks and Nets to sign about to be free agent LeBron James. Though Jay-Z and Spike Lee have worked together in the past and are not in a competition of any kind — Jay-Z owns a small part of the Nets; Spike just owns a courtside seat to the Knicks — it sure is catchy to pretend they are! Thus, the Times quotes a brand consultant as saying, “This actually highlights the old blood new blood disparity between both teams. You have new ownership with the Nets, and a vibrant contemporary urban personality like Jay-Z. With the Knicks, you have the Dolans and Spike who, God love him, has been around a bit, and is showing some gray in that beard.” Damn, Spike! Jay-Z just called you old! Oh, wait, that wasn’t really him. Can we get a dis track anyway?