Jay-Z gifts Beyoncé fan $400 champagne at Toronto concert
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A Beyoncé fan said rap icon Jay-Z gifted her a bottle of champagne worth more than $400 at a concert in Toronto over the weekend.
A self-described “ultra Beyoncé fan” said rap icon Jay-Z gifted her a bottle of champagne worth more than $400 at a concert in Toronto over the weekend.
Alisha Digba was dancing on the floor of the Rogers Centre as Beyoncé kicked off the North American leg of her Renaissance world tour on Saturday night when she noticed Jay-Z step into view.
Digba weaved her way through fans on the floor to get closer to the hip hop legend, who stood behind a barricade watching his wife perform, and began dancing her own choreography to Queen B’s lyrics.
“I swear Jay-Z was watching,” Digba said in a raspy voice on Monday, still strained from screaming lyrics at the concert two days earlier.
“He was in the barricade area, he was about to leave … so I was like, ‘hey can I take a picture?’ and instead he goes down, picks up a bottle of champagne, and goes to me, 'good job',” she said.
Jay-Z then handed Digba the vintage bottle, an Armand de Brignac Ace of Spades Brut Gold Champagne, worth $406 at Ontario liquor stores.
Digba said she has been a Beyoncé fan for as long as she can remember. “I was extremely bullied for being a Black woman in elementary school,” she said. In university, she was bullied again as the only Black person in her residence at Wilfrid Laurier University, Digba recalled.
