{"id":123616,"date":"2017-11-29T20:33:54","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T19:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=123616"},"modified":"2017-11-29T20:33:54","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T19:33:54","slug":"jay-z-interview-for-the-new-york-times-with-dean-baquet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/jay-z-interview-for-the-new-york-times-with-dean-baquet\/","title":{"rendered":"Jay-Z Interview For The New York Times With Dean Baquet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"123618\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/jay-z-interview-for-the-new-york-times-with-dean-baquet\/jay-z-ny-times\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/jay-z-ny-times.jpg?fit=700%2C462&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"700,462\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"jay-z-ny-times\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/jay-z-ny-times.jpg?fit=540%2C356&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/jay-z-ny-times.jpg?fit=640%2C422&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-123618\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/jay-z-ny-times.jpg?fit=640%2C356&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/jay-z-ny-times.jpg?resize=540%2C356&amp;ssl=1 540w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/jay-z-ny-times.jpg?w=700&amp;ssl=1 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dean Baquet<\/strong> of <em>The New York Times<\/em> sat down with <strong>Jay-Z<\/strong> and held a very intimate and honest Interview about life, music, marriage and politics.<br \/>\nWatch the whole 35-Minute talk on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2017\/11\/29\/t-magazine\/jay-z-dean-baquet-interview.html?smid=fb-nytimes&amp;smtyp=cur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New York Times Style Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>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\u2019t want to just play like him. We wanted to be him, gorgeous and running in the California sun.[&#8230;] So when I was invited to interview Jay-Z, I wanted to talk about his song \u201cThe Story of O.J.,\u201d from his most recent album, \u201c4:44,\u201d in which he quotes the legendary, maybe apocryphal, Simpson line \u201cI\u2019m not black, I\u2019m O.J. [&#8230;]\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dean Baquet of The New York Times sat down with Jay-Z and held a very&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-w9O","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}