Blinged-up wellies for Glastonbury arrive at Jay-Z's hotel

lection of blinged-up wellies has been ferried to Jay-Z’s London hotel, as the 38-year-old Hip-Hop rap star prepares for his controversial headline appearance at Glastonbury on Saturday night.

Boardrooms and boutiques, rather than dairy fields, are the natural milieu for the rapper who has sold 50 million records. Born Shawn Carter, he is expected to bring his new wife, Beyoncé Knowles, to Somerset. Despite feuds with hip-hop rivals, it was Jay-Z’s mic skills and innovative beats that pushed the Brooklyn rapper ahead of “gangsta” rivals. He established a music, club and fashionwear empire, signed a $130 million live concert deal and is said to be interested in buying a stake in Arsenal.

As for the Glasto row, he says: “We have to respect each other’s genre of Hip Hop music and move forward.”