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Jay-Z on The Oprah Winfrey Show (video)

Fri, Sep 25

Jay-Z made his appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show. Much of the interview came out via O Magazine but here is the in-studio conversation. Below is also some commentary from one of my favorite blogs The Awl. Dave was not too amused by the little set up. I am skeptical as well given Oprahs disdain for hip-hop as a culture (remember Ludacris?).

Did you watch Jay-Z on Oprah yesterday? No, because you have a job. It wa pretty lame. Jay’s always been a notoriously challenging interview subject—cool and measured, and terse, and more comfortable with silence than anyone he’s talking to. Oprah did her nerdball chummy shtick, and he played along nicely, over-employing the same forced chuckle he humored David Letterman with two weeks ago. The highlight was probably when he tried to teach her to rap. Jay wrote a tight little rhyme, actually, seemingly off the top of his head. (”Little boy from Brooklyn/Made it out the Stuy/Little girl from down south/Made it to the Chi…”) But Oprah didn’t even give it an honest effort, choosing instead to ham it up in her role as the rhythmless square. The whole thing felt very un-hip-hop, whatever that means in 2009.

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Jay-Z sits down with Oprah Winfrey for an in-person interview on The Oprah Winfrey Show.