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Jay-Z Convinced a British Cathedral to Debut His Album Cover

Specifically, Salisbury Cathedral, where one of four remaining copies of — yes, of course — the Magna Carta is on display. There they are together, up above (the Magna Carta is the document with all the confusing Old English words; the album cover is the one that says “Jay-Zâ€). And here the cover is with a fancy column:

Jay’s Magna Carta Holy Grail cover art will be on display there through the end of July; it will also have an exhibit in the tiny underground pyramid crypt at the Louvre, right next to Mary Magdalene’s bones.

Jay-Z Got a Cathedral to Debut His Album Art