COACHELLA 2010 FRIDAY: Jay-Z & Beyoncé, Coachella's New Power Couple
Posted Sat Apr 17, 2010 4:19am PDT by Lyndsey Parker in Maximum Performance

Only at Coachella--a diverse California desert festival where Kanye West once opened for Sigur Ros--would Noel Gallagher-infuriating rapper Jay-Z headline the first night; namecheck indie bands Grizzly Bear, Passion Pit, and Yeasayer in his onstage thank-you's; and perform a song that samples Alphaville's '80s prom ballad "Forever Young" with the chorus crooned by none other than his famous diva wife, Beyoncé


Jay-Z's set, despite starting a half-hour late, was unsurprisingly the best-received gig of Coachella Friday---and that was before his better half sashayed out in her Daisy Dukes.

However, not everyone was so thrilled about Jay-Z's appearance. John Lydon's recently reunited legendary post-punk combo, Public Image Limited, were playing on the neighboring second stage at the exact time Hova was rocking the main stage, and while it may seem hard to imagine that a famously cantankerous punk grump like the artist formerly known as Johnny Rotten could ever be drowned out or upstaged, that was in fact the case, as Jay-Z's set (with full live band) was eardrum-splittingly loud. And Jigga didn't just provide stiff competition in the decibel-level department, but it also seemed like 75 percent of the entire Coachella audience was crammed onto the left side of field to see Jay-Z, with sadly only a modest-sized crowd wandering over to the right to see Public Image Limited.

Happily, this great injustice only seemed to fuel Lydon's filthy fury, and he hit the stage in fine form, snarling, "If you need an aspirin for Jay-Z, better take a PiL!" PiL's set was indeed one of the other major highlights of Friday, with Lydon all bug-eyes and bad attitude and rolled R's, spouting one-liners like "This is the mood we're in tonight: nice and accurate and deadly" between classic cuts like "This Is Not A Love Song," "Warrior," "Flowers Of Romance," and "Religion"...the last of which (in true Lydon fashion) was punctuated with the nasty declaration, "Lock up your children, the priests are coming!"
And then, at the end of it all, just as PiL were tearing into their signature song, "Public Image," Beyoncé joined Jay-Z onstage across the field, and a fireworks display filled the desert sky. And if you were standing at one particular spot on the field between the two competing stages, you were treated to an unexpected and most likely unintentional, pyro-augmented "Public Image"/"Forever Young" mashup that even Coachella DJ Z-Trip couldn't have ever conjured.

Not all rapper's sets were as successful, however: Earlier in the day, the main stage's opening act, Nigerian-American hip-hop newcomer Wale, started playing nearly 40 minutes late, which effectively truncated his set to a 10-minute mini-show. But Wale was in good spirits and made the best use of his brief time in the Coachella sun.

Nice

That was almost some chemistry on that stage! I still can't see him pulling her weave and spanking that ass though.

boring as hell honey aint nothing hot about this

There has been internet buzz about how Jay Z is into the occult/illuminati. Some of his suggestive lyrics played forward & backwards giving hint to this.
Roc-e-fella = Rockefeller family illuminati dynasty
Diamond sign = All seeing eye pyramid
Beyonce came out to the Grammies last year to perform with full riot martial law police backing her up. (had nothing to do with the song BTW)
Finally, Beyonce proudly wearing the huge Baphomet ring at this Coachella 2010 performance does it for me.
repent all devil worshippers!