Celebrated journalist Elliott Wilson — of Rap Radar — posted his interview with Jay Z on YouTube, and it was perhaps one of the most insightful ones we’ve seen of the hip-hop mogul yet.
Jay Z — who along with wife Beyonce — made an appearance at the New York City Trayvon Martin rally this past weekend, to protest the acquittal of George Zimmerman.
“I was really angry, I didn’t sleep for two days,” Jay Z says in the interview. “I was really angry about it, that the thing that we all knew that there was still a bit of racism in America, but for it to be so blatant. If you just ask the question, ask yourself the question, ‘Didn’t Trayvon have the right to stand his ground?’ He was being chased, he was being chased and fought back. You know, he may have won. That doesn’t mean he’s a criminal, he won. If you try to attack me and I defend myself, how can I be in the wrong? How is that right? This guy went to get some Skittles and go back and watch the All-Star game. He had plans… he had no intentions of robbing anyone’s home.”
Jay talks about the actual acquittal itself, saying: “We all know it was wrong. It was wrong. This guy’s not a professional. First of all, you’re not a professional to profile someone. A professional law enforcement officer is taught not to profile. This guy’s a novice. This guy’s a (effing) mall cop.”
The rapper says he is hopeful for the next generation, but fears that the old guard will still rule.
“You still see that the old guard, that whole thing I’m fighting against. That old guard and their old ideas and their stubborn ways and all their ego and all their bullshit — it’s just still there. It still exists and you just hate to believe that.”
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