Jay-Z Discusses Longevity Within the HipHop Game | Friday Night With Jonathan Ross

Jay-Z joins Jonathan on the couch and they talk record-breaking album sales, Jay's friendship with Obama & stealing routines from Beyonce.
Original Broadcast Date: 19 February 2010
Series 18, Episode 6
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[@mikedeakin3280]

jonathan’s relationships with rappers is unmatched

[@johnwright4015]

He does seem to get on well with them.

[@johnwright4015]

"Obama -you"

[@jigzonyt517]

He's like the Tim Westwood of rap interviews 🤣

[@paulpaid]

After Arsenio.

[@jigzonyt517]

Johnathon has a way of making any person very relaxed in an interview and that's a talent.

[@drewstar8611]

Jay-Z got a sarcastic sense of humour like a Brit.

[@jefvarnadore2267]

Damn Jay is over 50 years old now that’s crazy

[@sorandom6178]

I love watching jay z interviews

[@jigzonyt517]

Jay has got the be the most approachable rapper than can be put into any interview and he still so calm and real.

[@pamelabonaparte9383]

Dam Jay-Z is one funny guy…..that postal comment and ignoring it was hilarious….and the Puffy stuff 😂🤣❤️

[@Ayo.Ajisafe]

Hilarious.

[@tannaha7999]

I'm convinced Jonathan Ross was a rapper in his past life. At the very least, he managed a rapper 😂

[@muzza2096]

The is the most awkward interaction ever caught on camera I LOVE IT🤣🤣

[@birdinio1111]

They are pretending to be awkward

[@maximisatwat]

Apparently BBC don't provide Cocaine in the Green Room anymore.

[@PrettybuoyJones1992]

Shout out to all my Trinidadian people!

[@racheldick3056]

🇹🇹

[@jackiesmith3684]

Jay z is a brilliant rapper and the song New York with Alicia keys is fricking brilliant they're both great artists in there own right and Beyonce is a beautiful woman and a wonderfull wife and mother big up guys xx

[@illbback8156]

Didnt know him and eminem had 11 number 1 albums

[@lloyddeunk8142]

Jay has 13 now

[@illbback8156]

14 actually

[@Jaunty_jules]

How much em got?

[@jigzonyt517]

@@Jaunty_jules erm...

[@jwalls1223]

JAY-Z HAS THE MOST NUMBER ONE ALBUMS IN ALL OF MUSIC..

[@nriab23]

Sometimes I had this negative opinion of rappers because a lot of the time the records would be harsh dis raps or the people who liked rap I usually imagined to be gangsters. Yet when I've listened to some of the rappers talk. They talk very talk very eloquently and have a good sense of humour and I feel ashamed at having a prejudice agaisnt rappers.

[@nriab23]

@Great White Cat I was talking about rappers not african americans. Please show me where I mentioned black people in my comment? There are plenty of white rappers.

[@madhausen]

True, you have to split their music from who they really are. A lot of modern rappers do act up a lot, but for most it's all about the music and the art for them. A lot of people don't understand that and assume rappers do everything they make music about. Of course things do get ugly a lot, in rivalries and such but the murders only seem to happen when gangs get involved. Most rappers just want to make art.

[@Ayo.Ajisafe]

But peoples ideas and misconception about rap and rappers are in all likelihood linked to the demographic. That might be harder to admit but so many criticisms of rap have racial undertones. Jay-Z is a genius quite obviously. Lyrically and in business. He went from a street hustler to being a billionaire. But there is alot of genius in rap that goes unrecgnized like I said because of the demographic. Just avoid mainstream. Raps appeal means that its almost impossible that no one you know is rap fan. Ask for a playlist. :)

[@nriab23]

@@Ayo.Ajisafe well in my case it wasn't that way. take that however you wish.

[@Ayo.Ajisafe]

@@nriab23 Hey now don't take it personally. I'm not attacking you. The things I'm speaking about affect us at very subconscious level. Why do you think you are immune to the same forces that effect us all? Remember no one is attacking you its just that we spend so much more time and energy indignantly denying things than we do actually thinking about them and internally examining them and I believe its precisely this that keeps them alive.

[@kingmulahoo4925]

Aston Martin

[@garykeys6895]

Cool Z

[@kingmulahoo4925]

Whats next?

[@kingmulahoo4925]

Triumphant

[@MissPotato444]

I miss Jonathan Ross.

[@leewightman8619]

U don't really see jay z on shows like this

[@andreonline113]

39,006

[@CRAIG5835]

Thats the first time ive heard Jay Z speak, i had been hating on him for years for taking my girl, i thought, Why you marrying that Mick Jagger lip alike for Beyonce, im over here DownUnder in New Zealand, that Jay Z is a FOOL. However, watching him at yours Jon, one can see that he seems a decent bloke and has that ALL important factor in winning a girl, Humour, or Humor as they spell it in the US, is a Yuge factor, look at any interview with a Model to a Playboy Bunny when they ask what type of guy they like. Most say that looks arent that important (But i dunno about that ladies) but what is important is the sense of humor, so naturally i got a Subscription to the Acme How to be funny book series. Suffice to say, i have never married, i am now just waiting for my girl to divorce Jay Z so she can do the Oh Ah Oh, Ah Oh for me! Still waiting for that bloody book though.

[@chrisbreedy2314]

Catch very early interviews and so impressed with him- he's funny and humble and real! We 'got a glimpse of Sean and we like that'😍

[@chrisbreedy2314]

That's what caught my attention a long time ago! His personality is so fun!

[@RosaPhanelson]

He's the man. THE G. O. A. T. 😊

[@elftower907]

So cool how he references his debut seems a lot of huge rappers wouldn’t do that. Btw did he really have aaliyah and big L killed ?

[@leostarr4293]

"Not all Americans are slow" Alright, mate, calm down. You know who the French president was. The fact that you think that it shows that you're smart is a bit disturbing.

[@definitepartymaterial]

*man hears someone joking for the first time*

[@maximisatwat]

France is next door to UK. Its not next door to USA. You know the president of Mexico?