While in New York City raising campaign funds in January, President Barack Obama was asked at a restaurant what at first seemed like a simple question by The Atlantic magazine: “Kanye or Jay-Z?”
“Jay-Z … although I do like Kanye. He’s a Chicago guy, smart. He’s very talented.”
“Even though you called him a jackass?” the writer, David Samuels, asked referring to Obamas opinion of Kanye after his behaivor at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, in which he bum-rushed the stage while Taylor Swift accepted the award for Best Female Video.
“He is a jackass,” Obama says. “But he’s talented.”
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