It’s hard to move in New York right now without hearing Jay-Z’s latest anthem but not everyone agrees with his assessment that he made the Yankees hat more famous than the Yankees can. Those outside the USA are forgiven for not knowing that the Yankees, the most successful team in baseball, are currently challenging for the World Series (a best-of-7-games series which will determine baseball’s champion), and that their players are the highest paid sportsmen not just in America, but probably in the world. Not that this justifies the use of the word ‘World’ for a series which takes place in just one of its 195 nations.

Still, you have to admire the chutzpah of the man from Brooklyn who performed the song, line unchanged, at the Yankees home in the Bronx last night ahead of game two of the series, in front of its stars like Alex Rodriguez (A-Rod), who takes home a cool $28 million a season, and Derek Jeter, perhaps unheard of outside of the USA, who signed a measly $189 million 10-year deal earlier this year. I’d love to see Dizzee Rascal singing “I made the West Ham shirt more famous than a Hammer can” at Upton Park one day, but somehow I doubt it’s gonna happen.

Click here for the story in The New York Times.