Jack White has said that he’s “finally made it” after he had a coffee with ‘Weird Al’ Yankovich.
The Third Man Records Instagram account posted a photo of the pair in a diner yesterday (February 5) with the accompanying message: “Looks like Jack White finally made it”.
Jack White was asked during an interview on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart recently when he knew he’d “made it”, and he said he hadn’t yet. “When I have coffee with ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic one day, that’s when I’ll know. People say ‘I know I’ve made it when ‘Weird Al’ covers your song.’ That’s not true — you have to have coffee with him,” he said.
Yesterday, White shared an audio recording of his Madison Square Garden concert in New York. The show was the singer’s first at the venue since he performed there with The White Stripes in 2007. He played a 23-song set that included work from his two solo records, as well as songs from The White Stripes and The Raconteurs.
During the encore, White invited A Tribe Called Quest’s Q-Tip to the stage for a performance of ‘That Black Bat Licorice’, taken from his latest album ‘Lazaretto’. The pair also played a rendition of A Tribe Called Quest’s classic track ‘Excursions’.