N.O.R.E. has shared his thoughts on JAY-Z‘s recent interview with Gayle King, saying that Hov could’ve made a far greater impact doing it through a Hip Hop media outlet.
On Monday (November 13), the Drink Champs host joined Talib Kweli for a chat on People’s Party that spanned nearly three hours. During the back-and-forth, the rap veterans discussed the importance of podcasting in the culture and how Jigga has been noticeably absent from that space.
During a recent CBS segment on the Book of Hov exhibition, the New York legend discussed a range of subjects, from the viral $500,000 dinner scenario to writing lyrics to his favorite albums. According to N.O.R.E., these subjects would’ve been a better fit elsewhere.
“I love JAY-Z,” he began. “He sat down with Gayle King, it’s a great relationship … would I rather him sit with the People’s Party? Would I rather him sit with Joe Budden’s podcast or Drink Champs or Million Dollaz Worth of Game? Of course.”
He explained: “Because we’re finally in the space of us owning our own everything, and podcasts is help for that.”
Watch the rapper-turned-podcaster explain the significance of platforms like his at the 2:18:03 mark below:
For similar reasons, Offset’s recent interview with comedian Bobbi Althoff wasn’t received well by many, including Jemele Hill. In late September, the sports reporter shared a clip from The Really Good Podcast episode with her own thoughts about its broader implications for Hip Hop media.
“I don’t find these types of interviews particularly enjoyable or interesting,” she wrote. “Instead it just sadly points out how real Hip Hop journalism has been practically erased.
“Some of the media teams behind these artists aren’t interested in them sitting down with credible people who know how to tell stories and do quality interviews. Then they wonder why an artist’s real story goes untold, neglected or that artist is misunderstood.”
Over the summer, Elliott Wilson expressed similar concerns and called out Drake for snubbing Hip Hop media after he sat down for off-beat interviews with Barstool Sports’ Caleb Pressley and Althoff.
“Moment of clarity: No disrespect to Lil Boat,” he wrote in a since-deleted tweet. “Yachty’s convo with The Boy was comfy and had some cool moments. I was more so clowning the comedy shenanigans with outsiders to our culture. It would be great to hear Drake speak to us again. Even if it ain’t me.”
Jigga is all about being better than you. When will people realize this? LMAO.
Facts. He’s gonna have a bar on his next album where he says “Gayle King has my story, meanwhile you’re drunk with NORE.” Jay is so wack LOL
You don’t even own your own shit NORE, or them other fools at MDWG, only Joe Budden owns his shit, and no respectable artist wants to sit down with that goofball.
all i know is Gayle King got a phatty
How do you know? Hahaha
Yeah, he wants to sit down with you and other messy hosts talking about did you really fuck Carmen back in 1998. He’s past that shit. For better or worse, and Gayle is black, so why are you complaining?
It’s not that bro. Jay just thinks he’s bigger than the rap game. Gayle and Oprah wouldn’t give a rat ass about Jay Z if he wasn’t with Beyonce.
I think jigger sees it as drunk champs, woke peoples party and 1% of my networth worth of game. nore too lit,efn finish your story before you do,kweli is pretentious and the most wokest of all time and i dont see jigger being interviewed by gillie and wallo talk about prison too much. as for joe budden, see def jam. so just stfu and get ready for the impending album rollout interview with trevorr noah
He done told you that he don’t shine shoes no more. Duh!
My ninja, you’re more tmz than these white people doing interviews on YouTube the white people are starting to take hip hop more seriously than the blacks bro. The hip hop podcast scene have become worse than cnn with its gotcha headline tactics and it’s baseless premise. it’s embarrassing bro. Like this just shows you if ninjas ran America it would be the exact same full of sin because we as a people human race are born sinners. That’s all it is. Whites suck, blacks suck, Jesus rules. Carry on. Al though I don’t think blacks would have spaced white people were much cooler than that lol
Jay is a pretentious, egotistical, narcissist with an ego bigger than his net worth. I wouldn’t want an interview with him because he would censor what you can say and or ask him. I wish he would put down the mic forever tbh. Ill get my stories from Memphis, dash, Biggs, beenie and the others.
um ok random person on the internet. Lol fkn weirdos
This is the best response… I totally agree with everything you say … he will soon be exposed as well
1. If you don’t like it don’t watch it. You hate coz you hate not coz of the interview.
2. You can sit down with those clowns you’d rather he had sat with.
3. None of the podcasts he mentioned is really credible. Noise and gossip is all they do. Joe Budden doesn’t even know where he stands on matters(says one thing 1 day and apologizes the next).
4. Its okay to grow, to be bigger than certain arrangements. Him being way bigger than a Joe budden podcast isn’t a negative.
5. We’re all egotistical. Only that not all of us are on Jay’s level. We’re all doing everything for ourselves, our reputation.
6. Stop complaining. Do it yourself.
How much of an owner was Nore when those folks came after Kanye?
truth is a bunch of podcast have no ethics, they would ask questions that are really petty and stupid he did in his past that if he comments might turn into some internet weird shit and HOV isnt just any other rapper, his got corporate ties that affects thousands of his employees unlike just a typical rapper who wants clout, imagine NORE clapping every 10 seconds
Good for Jay-Z. Why would he wanna go on one of these rapper’s podcasts and be either uncomfortably jocked the whole time, or be asked cringy questions like if he eats butt or if he ever smoked dust before. Then coaxed into some conversation about beef with rappers or 2Pac’s/ Biggie’s death. Jay-Z GREW UP and Rap never did. Rappers talk about ‘having a platform’. But when they get on the platform all they do is embarrass themselves for money, they have nothing to say. Peace.
I wonder how many “hip hop ” media even reached out to him to do an interview. Why does it matter who he went to. This is a prime example of why he probably didn’t do it on a hip hop platform. Because our black culture are our killers. Look at tasha k look at how some of our black people talk about other black people. We talk about change and taking over but some of the biggest black names in our culture still have a mentality of “slaves” and high school spats look at nicki minaj and so forth
Maybe we need 2 look at why they choose not 2 engage with this particular community…. Perhaps there’s too much unprofessionalism in those spaces. Too much room 4 things 2 go left… No order or boundaries set and these artist aren’t interested in indulging that type of environment… don’t kill the messenger just my POV