''They Try To Keep This Thing Segmented''
8:30PM ET November 9th, 2011
Contributor :Stephen Willis
A Rocky Williform Company

Jay-Z reflected on the Glastonbury Festival in 2008 and the controversy from the show and also acknowledged the various 'checkpoints' that he believes hip hop has had to continuously knock down over the years.

“It was just another one of those checkpoints. It felt like the DMX ‘Hard Knock Life’ conversation all over again, to have that conversation of, ‘No, rappers, we can tour together. We don’t have to have an outside R&B act or anything like that.’ Done,” he said. “People listen to music differently now. That was the old guard holding onto something they thought was dear. ‘We can’t let any other type of music infiltrate this rock festival.’ But people don’t listen to music like that no more. Globally, anywhere. Everyone’s iPod is a list of all eclectic things. You have some rock, some blues, some jazz - all types of things, whatever you like. They try to keep this thing segmented.”

“It’s like a misconception of anything," he said. "I can have a misconception of anything I hear one or two words from. If you hear buzz words coming from Hip Hop or anything like that, you say that’s what it’s all about. It’s very difficult to fairly analyze something in a 30-second blip. If I analyze even a Maya Angelou in a 30-second blip, I can misjudge who she is as a person and she happens to be the most incredible poet of our time.”