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Oasis’ Noel Gallagher publicly questioned Glastonbury organizers’ decision to have Jay-Z as the festivals headlining act, sparking off what now appears to be a bitter feud between the two stars.

In April Noel told the NME:

“If it ain’t broke don’t fix it. If you start to break it then people aren’t going to go. I’m sorry, but Jay-Z? No chance. Glastonbury has a tradition of guitar music and even when they throw the odd curve ball in on a Sunday night you go ‘Kylie Minogue?’ I don’t know about it. But I’m not having hip-hop at Glastonbury. It’s wrong.” 

Noel has never been known to keep his opinions to himself, and it’s often been said that you’ve not truly made it in the music biz until he’s slagged you off.  Jay-Z, however, seems to have taken it as a diss on him and on hip-hop in general.  He first struck back by opening at Glastonbury on June 28 by doing a cover of Oasis’ “Wonderwall”.

During a show at Madison Square Garden on Wednesday night this week (Aug. 6), Jay-Z rapped back another retort: 

“That bloke from Oasis said I couldn’t play guitar/Somebody should have told him I’m a fuckin’ rock star”.

Adding further to the so-called insult, he reprised a line from Oasis’ 1995 hit song Wonderwall, rapping,  ”Today is gonna be the day that I’m gonna throw it back to you”. (See video above)

Noel downplayed their public feud in this week’s edition of the NME, stating:

“I wasn’t saying I was better than Jay-Z as a person or rock was greater than hip-hop. I said what I said, and it was wrong, or it was taken wrong, and now all this [media furore].”  In the interview Noel also claimed that Jay-Z liked “Wonderwall”, despite the mock version, and said that its always the last song of the night at Jay-Z’s NYC restaurant.  He concluded by saying,  “I’ll have a beer with him one day and it will be fine.”