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"Jay-Z has opened up about his friendship with President Obama. The rapper - who has been a staunch supporter of Obama - admitted that attending the Inauguration with his wife Beyonc\u00C3\u00A9 was &amp;quot;surreal&amp;quot;.  &amp;quot;It was insane,&amp;quot; he said on Hot 97&amp;#039;s The Angie Show. &amp;quot;It was like, &amp;#039;This is actually about to happen - we&amp;#039;re actually about to walk out here and sit on this row and actually participate in the election of a president - this is unreal&amp;#039;.&amp;quot; Jay-Z joked that his seats were &amp;quot;fantastic&amp;quot; and quipped: &amp;quot;It was like a concert when we walked out, are you kidding? When we saw it on TV - &amp;#039;waaah!&amp;#039; - [we were like], &amp;#039;This is not cool, this is not cool&amp;#039;. They were, like, screaming from the rafters. It was ratchet.&amp;quot; The musician also admitted that he has spoken to Obama on the phone and has texts from him, joking: &amp;quot;Of course.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;He&amp;#039;s a regular guy as well,&amp;quot; Jay-Z said. &amp;quot;He&amp;#039;s very heavy into sports, so a lot of his analogies end up in sports. I don&amp;#039;t know if this is breaching national security, but when he was getting elected the second time he was like, &amp;#039;Hey, you know, fourth quarter, just give me the ball&amp;#039;. I said, &amp;#039;Word&amp;#039;. That was amazing. Don&amp;#039;t you think that was great? I had to give word.&amp;quot; Jay-Z admitted that he still gets star-struck about speaking with the President, but simply described Oprah Winfrey as &amp;quot;cool&amp;quot; because he was worried about being too much of a namedropper. &amp;quot;I went too far with the last one [Obama] so I was trying to downplay it a bit,&amp;quot; he joked. &amp;quot;I was trying to stay in the good graces with everyone - I have an album out, you know?&amp;quot; Watch Jay-Z speaking about Barack Obama and Oprah Winfrey below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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