Jay-Z simply gaga over Magna Carta really?

No, the famous American rapper Jay-Z isn’t leaving Beyoncé to go after a bimbo named Mag-C. It is, in fact, the venerable 13th-century British bill of citizens’ rights, Magna Carta, that the rapper stood in awe of last week during his UK tour. He opted for a low-profile visit so that it may not be construed as a publicity stunt for his new album, ingloriously titled Magna Carta…Holy Grail. The best way to do that, he ingeniously worked out, was to casually pull up in his swanky Aston Martin outside the ancient precincts of the 750-year-old Salisbury Cathedral, where one of the best-kept original copies is housed. The shameless juxtaposition of ageless beauty and modern-day consumerism is dwarfed in mindlessness only by the rapper’s shocking pretence of his visit not being a marketing gimmick.

The “low-profile” visit was covered by major news websites around the world and left social media abuzz. We shudder to think what would have ensued had it been a “high-profile” stopover. He was “genuinely touched” to see the artwork for his new album placed beside the original copy of the 800-year-old charter. We wonder, then, what his reaction was to the news that his new album had topped the Billboard chart, selling 5, 28, 000 copies in the first week. Amen, perhaps, was the one word that did not roll off his tongue.