Jay-Z Final Headliner for O2 Wireless Festival 2008

Jay-Z has been announced as the final headliner for this year's O2 Wireless Festival. Hip-Hop supremo, former CEO of Def-Jam and Roc-A-Fella Records, 7 Grammy award winning, 25 Grammy Nominated, a star of film, owner of Roc-A-Wear, JAY-Z is the biggest, the best, the baddest and he is here on the Main Stage for what will undoubtedly be one of the performances of the year.

Jay-Z has been centre stage this week as, back on Monday, Michael Eavis confirmed that Jay-Z will still play Glastonbury and blamed slow ticket sales on many years of mud. Regardless, Jay-Z will be headlining O2 Wireless Festival.

JAY Z. aka Shawn Corey Carter, has been at the heart of US hip-hop since the mid 90's. With his debut, self-financed release, JAY-Z demonstrated the business acumen that would become a hallmark of his incredible rise to fame but it was 1998's 'Volume 2 - Hard Knock Life' that took the US success of platinum albums and Top 5 chart placings global.

Selling over 8 million copies worldwide, 'Hard Knock Life' the single was a huge global smash. Roc-A-Fella Records expanded from here, taking on a stable of artists and leading them to similar success whilst the man himself dropped 2001's 'The Blueprint' an secured himself ever lasting fame with an album that is widely regarded as one of the classics of the hip hop canon.
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