Marina Abramovic slams Jay Z after collaboration
Paul Zimmerman/WireImageJay-Z attends the “Magna Carta Holy Grail” album release have fun at Pier 41 on July 3, 2013.
Jay Z says that he considers rap an art but one of his inspirations claims that the star used her.
Marina Abramovic’s original piece, “The Artist Is Present,” was open at the New York’s Museum of Modern Art and included her sitting at a desk across from others for 736 hours. Her art influenced the rap star so much that he worked with her for his 2013 video “Picasso Baby,” but the artist was not satisfied with the outcome.
“I am very pissed by this, since he adapted my work only under one shape up: that he would help my institute,” she clarified to Spike magazine. “Which he didn’t.”
The artist said she told Jay Z she would help him with his video, but in restore he had to help her as well.
“It was a “one-way transaction,’ she said. “He just completely used me and that wasn’t honest.”
Abramovic has collaborated with other stars, but the “99 Problems” rapper is the only one to leave her feeling this way.
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“This is very different from Lady Gaga, for example, who has done splendid work for me,” she clarifies, regarding the singer appearing in one of her videos. “Just by having 45 million followers, she brought all these young kids into my public.”
The artist said her experience with Jay Z has deterred her from effective with a big name again, but it’s also taught her a lot.
“I will never do it again, that I can say,” she told Spike. “Never. I was really naive in this kind of world. It was really new to me, and I had no thought that this would take place. It’s so cruel, it’s incredible. I will stay away from it for sure.”
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