If you think Seth Meyers watching Game of Thrones with Leslie Jones is worthwhile entertainment, just imagine Jay-Z joining that sofa. The only problem? Jay doesn’t always wait for Thrones Sunday before he tunes in.
The rapper, born Shawn Carter, confessed to the BBC’s Clara Amfo that he binged an episode of the popular series before boarding a flight.
“I feel bad, I feel guilty.” Carter said. “I stole a little episode that they put out. They leaked the episode.”
But Jay-Z feels that, to a degree, he should be allowed to watch a pirated version of someone else’s work. “I think I deserved that,” he said. “What you want me to do? People bootleg my album. I’m owed a little bit.”
Though he might be sneaking in a little illegal TV, Jay-Z still has HBO’s best interest in mind: “I watch Sunday and give them a little bit of the ratings thing. You know I’m not gonna do them like that.”
He got in a few laughs about his bingeing habits, but things took a serious turn when Amfo asked what it’s like to be raising a young black family in America in 2017, when white supremacists marched the streets of Charlottesville the same summer his twin babies were born.
“Well, I believe that what happens in life is for your greatest good,” Jay said. “I don’t think that this would be happening if we weren’t prepared to handle it. Black people, we’ve been through so much more than this guy. This guy, I’m looking at him, and I’m like, ‘Man, this is a joke.’”
He went on to say that Trump is “not a very sophisticated man”: “if you oppress a certain people, everyone’s in danger—karmically and in real life.”
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