Please Welcome the Return of the Famous Jay-Z Gas Face


Let no one say Shawn Carter is not reliable. For two decades now, through rap thick and rap thin, hip-hop's most prickly superstar has had the looking-disgusted game on lock. Oh, you're Benny the Bull, the Chicago Bulls mascot, and you're seized with the desire to do the "Single Ladies" dance mere inches away from Jay-Z during an All-Star game time-out? That's cool. Go ahead, start the video 40 seconds in. Just know that you're going to get this face:

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​Every time you or anyone else does anything like this at any kind of a sporting event, you are going to get this face:

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​Even you Beyonce, Tyra Banks, and Kimora Lee Simmons:

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​Bodyguards will not protect you:

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​A luxurious, honey-colored blazer will not blunt the pain:

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​Rest assured, though. There is a nuclear option here and you will be spared it. That level of scorn is reserved for only one man, and your name is not Robin Thicke:

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​If that mascot had been dancing to "Meiple," he'd be lying in a pool of fur and blood right now.



See also:
Jay-Z and Diddy Are Not Amused by Mascot's 'Single Ladies' Dance [Vulture]

Oh, and Chris Martin--you're not immune either pal:

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​Yup--that's Jay-Z and Ricky Gervais at a Coldplay concert. You really thought "Clocks" would save you?

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