Jay-Z Interview For The New York Times With Dean Baquet

Dean Baquet of The New York Times sat down with Jay-Z and held a very intimate and honest Interview about life, music, marriage and politics.
Watch the whole 35-Minute talk on The New York Times Style Magazine.

My conversation with Jay-Z began with O.J.. When I was a kid growing up in black New Orleans in the 1960s, O.J. Simpson was a god. We imitated his moves, his swagger. We didn’t want to just play like him. We wanted to be him, gorgeous and running in the California sun.[…] So when I was invited to interview Jay-Z, I wanted to talk about his song “The Story of O.J.,” from his most recent album, “4:44,” in which he quotes the legendary, maybe apocryphal, Simpson line “I’m not black, I’m O.J. […]”