Jay-Z answered his critics on Saturday, notably Oasis’s Noel Gallagher, with a performance at Britain’s famous Glastonbury music festival that was received to rapturous cheers Saturday.

Oasis songwriter Noel Gallagher had called hip hop at Glastonbury “wrong” and traditionalists in Internet chatrooms had said they would have preferred a band like Radiohead, while critics also blamed the rapper for slow ticket sales.

In a nod to Gallagher, Jay-Z took to the stage to the strains of the Mancunian band’s hit “Wonderwall”, before running through a collection of his own hits, including “Hard Knock Life”.

“They say you don’t want me here, Glastonbury,” queried the rapper. “Now tell me, where is the love?”

That question was answered by huge cheers from the crowd, whose only disappointment was that Beyonce did not make an appearance.

“That was a real triumph to bring hip-hop from the streets of New York to Glastonbury,” Eavis told the BBC on Sunday.

“All that doom and gloom about ticket sales, but we were completely sold out by Thursday and we had such a younger audience.”

Prior to Jay-Z’s appearance, soul singer Amy Winehouse played an hour-long set after receiving treatment for a lung condition which her father said was caused by smoking crack cocaine.