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ICE CUBE: Jay-Z announces Philly festival that will rival Live Aid
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ICE CUBE: Jay-Z announces Philly festival that will rival Live Aid
When the announcement went out on Friday that Jay-Z would hook up with the Mayor of Philadelphia on the steps of the Art Museum, a few things rang through my mind:
1) Hova wanted to continue his Watch the Throne collaboration tour with Kanye West but West was too busy with Kim Kardashian. Rapping Michael Nutter would therefore be Kanye’s replacement
2) That he and Beyonce really liked our Museum and, with Blue’s birthday coming up fast, needed a present
3) He really really likes our Sixers more than his Nets
4) Z’s buddy Geoff Gordon from Live Nation won a bet
5) He had a free Monday, that’s all
Instead, Jay was coming here to — as announced first in the New York Times on Sunday – give up the deets on the Budweiser Made in America festival in Fairmount Park, Sept. 1 and Sept. 2, with tickets going on sale May 23 through LiveNation.com and Ticketmaster.com with a portion of proceeds are to benefit the United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern NJ.
Named after one of Watch the Throne’s tunes (maybe Kayne will get involved?), the festival will have Z as its curator and headliner (what else) with a broadly eclectic group of acts as his openers. That’s what we knew before Monday morning.
With the rain holding to a spritz, Z and Nutter — standing in from of the Art Museum and a large United States flag, and joined by Philly’s own Freeway — they reiterated the same info, adding that some 30 acts would be scheduled. Maybe Beyonce will make her second area appearance after Revel’s opening weekend with her husband. Stay tuned for the bookings, though Ahmir “?uestlove” Thompson — The Roots’ blabbingest drummer — posted on Okay Player that he knows the bulk of the lineup and compares the Labor Weekend fest to Live Aid ’85. “If I name the other 30 acts scheduled to appear I will have officially become Hov’s 100th problemo and Nutter will Osage Ave up my momma’s home,” writes ?uest.
Speaking of, the ever-ubiquitous ?uestlove — whose Roots Picnic is also a two-fer, with De La Soul and Major Lazer on the first weekend in June — will appear on the finale episode of Morgan Spurlock’s Hulu show, A Day In The Life, talking about all Jimmy Fallon, Philly and fried chicken. Girl Talk, Joel McHale and Richard Branson have been previous guests, so the company’s good. Watch it starting today, May 14.
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