SWAGG REPORT: US President Barack Obama Loves Hip Hop & Listens To Jay-Z While Working Out.
Friday, February 19th, 2010
Hip-Hop artist Jay-Z has revealed that US President Barack Obama enjoys listening to expletive-laden songs while exercising in the gym. Buzz up!In fact, Obama had his Blueprint 3 album playing during a recent telephonic conversation, Jay-Z said. He said: “Barack loves hip hop, when I called him he was playing Blueprint in the gym.” The Telegraph reported, it was during an interview for Jonathan Ross’s Friday night show on BBC One that Jay-Z made the claims, according to The Mirror. He added: “I’ve been invited to the White House a couple of times. “Hopefully we’ll keep him in for eight years so I’ll have time to get there.”
The ’99 Problems’ rapper has revealed the political leader is a big hip-hop fan and uses his expletive-riddled tracks to inspire him during his work-outs.
“I’ve been invited to the White House a couple of times. Hopefully, we’ll keep him for eight years so I’ll have time to get there.”
Jay-Z – who is married to Beyonce Knowles – recently threw a lavish 40th birthday party in the Dominican Republic and admits the best thing about the bash was outdoing his friend P. Diddy, who is famed for his extravagant celebrations.
He added to UK TV talk show host Jonathan Ross: “Puff throws the best parties ever but I got him this time. He practically MC’d my party.”
The music mogul – who has his own Roc Nation music company and was previously president of Def Jam records – recently advised record companies to become “smarter” in order to survive.
He said: “People have to be smarter about how they A+R, and what they put out, record companies need to catch up to that, someone needs to send them the memo.
“I remember the first year I was at Def Jam we put out 56 artists. There isn’t 56 great artists in the world, and this is one company. One company operating for around 80 artists in a year. That’s just too many.”
