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Artist Marina Abramović Feels Used By Jay Z

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Jay Z has some serious explaining to do. 

Artist Marina Abramović has a bone to pick with Jay Z.

After appearing in Jay Z’s 2013 “Picasso Baby” video, she claims that Jay Z didn’t hold up his end of the bargain when she agreed to allow him to adapt her work called “The Artist is Present.

She told The Guardian,

“The day before, he came to my office and I gave him an entire PowerPoint presentation and said: OK, you can help me, because I really need help to build this thing. Then he just completely used me. And that wasn’t fair. This is very different from Lady Gaga, for example, who has done great work for me. Just by having 45 million followers, she brought all these young kids into my public.”

Wow.

This is disappointing.

Hopefully, Jay Z will make this situation right.

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