Jay-Z Shuts Down Beyonce/Sean Paul Set
 

Reports have surfaced about an alleged rift between Jay-Z and Sean Paul, citing that Jay-Z barred the popular dancehall artist from taking the stage with Beyonce at last week's MTV Video Music Awards.

"We were told through the president of Atlantic Records, Craig Kallman, that Jay-Z wanted to be the only guest artist to perform with Beyonce at the awards show. Jay-Z did not want Sean Paul on stage with her and he made it clear," Jeremy Harding, Paul's manager told the Jamaica Observer.

At the VMA's, Beyonce began her two-song set by performing "Baby Boy," Dangerously In Love's second single featuring Paul. While Paul was in attendance as a performer and presenter, viewers were disappointed to notice his absence while his vocals played through the speakers. On the other hand, Hov ran on stage to spit his '16' for "Crazy In Love."

According to Harding, Beyonce's management team repeatedly eluded him to avoid setting up a potential performance. Roc-A-Fella records wouldn't comment on the matter and Beyonce couldn't be reached for comment. "I don't know whether it was jealousy or a professional threat," Harding told the Observer. "But it is a form of hypocrisy as hip-hop views dancehall as the poor little cousin and now it feels threatened because it is right up there in their league. Paul has sold some three-million copies internationally, two in the US and the rest in other parts of the world. Now all of a sudden there is a clamp down," Harding expressed.

According to Harding, the hypocrisy recently extended to the "Baby Boy" video shoot in which the two artists barely had any scenes together. Harding also claims that Beyonce attempted to apologize to him at the VMA's. Ironically, the tables turned when both artists were set to perform at a New York concert the next night. "Sean Paul did his own set but told Beyonce when she asked to do the song that his throat was not feeling well," Harding told the Observer.

thats Jay-z's ego.

he doesn't want to seem like another featured artist, but a special guest. what a dick

who cares sean paul is gay anyways...there are way better dancehall artists than him he is stupid and gay......jay-z is ok but he needs to loosen up on the ego

^Your gay lol.. so is this thread... stolen str8 from sohh.com news lmao

Lol @ Jay-Z...His Ego Is As Big As My Dick, If Not Bigger. (Very Rare.)

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By your Net thugness Im guessin that Richard Simmons Straightness Is bigger than your Dick.................. Jay Z jus doesnt Want anyone bigger than him, he wants to be the biggest , baddest rapper, and he wants B all to himself .... Or I could be completely wrong whateva ... I jus dont give a fuuuucckkkkk :)

what a flaming homosexual..........lmao....this thread is for shit

jay-z= wack
Sean Paul=wacker

neither of them should be doin a show let alone draggin hip hop into the mainstream with beyonce collabs the fuckin fags.....

^I believe that by your comments you haven't really listened to The Blueprint or to Reasonable Doubt that well.
Jay-Z is a dick, but hell the performance wasn't that great anyway. Beyonce's hair was fucked up.

damn jay-z is gunna beat the fuck outta sean paul.. sean pauls a bitch so thatd be tight if he got his ass beat

rap is to much drama for me...why dont they just put out good albuilms and shut the fuck up

^^WRONG i got the blue print and i give it to my girl coz i fuckin hate it, the only good songs are the collabs and jay-z get destroyed by EM on renegade, he has my vote as the most boring soundin mc on the planet, RZA has the drowsy style but this guy has the BORING style, tight lyrics, but awful irritating voic and wack beats

um...whack beats? boring style? he MADE that laid back style that all these new cats are trying to do...and RZA? drowzy? are you sure you got your mc's str8??? its hard to put a word on his style but drowzy aint even close...

and as for beyonce...i would do the same thing for that pussy...bootylicous

the RZA is quoted as saying his style is drowsy you herb, thats why i said it, its YOU who needs to get their MC's straight

i wasnt attacking you but now that i think of it...you ARE a faggot

That's some pretty wack shit...i was wonderin why he didnt perform with her.

crazy in love he is...

jay-z does seem like a dick. thats pretty immature move on his part when you think about it. but this cat sayin jay-z is wack hahaha, try coppin one of his cds before you say that you uneducated muthafucka.

i cop ALL his CD's you fucking idiot, and every one is WACK, FACT

yo i gotta say that sean paul is from london right, then how the fukk he gone get spotlight for bein 1 of tha biggest reggae dancehall artists? shit makes me laugh, n i think jay-z was just bein a boyfriend cuz if beyonce was wit me i wouldnt want s-p windin up on her eitha...

nuff said...

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mega..

^i'm with you on this, he even recycles what lyrics hes got
jay Z shoulda bust his whack ass

none of his cd's are wack, reasonable is a classic, blueprint is a classic, and the rest are just as good, deez niggas hatin on jay and for what ( shakes head at those who doesn't know real music)

anyway i dont agree wit what he did but thats his girl and if he got that kinda pull then he can do what he wants and get away wit it

I bet that Jay-Z probably got mad when Beyonce kissed that guy in the Fighting Temptation movie......

^^^lol...probably...but anywayz...In My Lifetime and Reasonable Doubt are classics...Blueprint is not...not yet anyway...but shit...Beyonce just looks like a hoe and Sean Paul pulls hoe'z so if I was Jay-Z I wouldn't trust it either...Sean Paul and Beyonce are probably already fuckin' as it is...Jigga just needs to break a fuckin' bottle over that niggaz head until he starts cryin' like a little bitch then stab him once and cut all his fingerz off one by one...after that he needz to give Sean Paul a nice lil' Buck 50 for everyone to remember him by...and he can go around tellin' everyone that Jay-Z sliced him from chin to ear...see how much hoein' Beyonce will be doin' then...

if i were wean paul id run out there and make out with her on the floor.

jay-z is too fuckin cocky! sean paul, hes a gay bastard.(period)

LOL*I'm clownin'!!!
....Half y'all nigz in here talkin' about how Sean Paul is gay was probably the same ones talking about how "Gimme The Light" was the tightest song when it 1st came out. Anywayz, the issue is that whether this is true, Jay-Z is Beyonce's man and if she wanted to please him by not letting Sean Paul come out on stage or be close to her in the video then that's on them. Either way, Sean Paul got paid for his services at the end of the day. Beyonce' won't allow Jay to be around Blu Cantrell so I guess they about even anyway. I guess all the money in the world won't stop u from being insecure.

you obviously dont understand rap or music for that. go listen to your white rappers. you are prolly the same guy that says 36 chambers is wack

^wtf?.. whoever thinks wu's 1st lp was wack should be spoon raped n sodimized yo..lol.. as for jay-z.. in my lifetime vol.1(ill ass album)reasonable doubt( classic) anything else i heard from jigga didnt even have half of the reply value that those 2 albums i mentioned earlier... and retarded ass s.paul.. well shaggy sounds more authentic then he does..lol.not 2 mention hes a supercat clone.. bit his style, voice, and delivery.
anyhow.. i dont think jay stopped s.p from performing with beyonce cos he wanted to be the only artist on stage with her or cos he didnt wanna be outshined.. 1st of all.. after nas made it clear 2 every1 that eminem outshined the piss outta him i dont think he'd do shit that would seem THAT obvious that hes afraid of being outshined again (i hope im makin sense,lol)
personally.. i dont no if it was jay's insecurity flamin up or if he just dislikes s.paul 4 his own reasons but i do think it was alot deeper then him just wantin 2 be the only guest performer in beyonce's performance.

am i the only one who thinks jayz looks like a monkey??
he just chealous