I need you to go to Miami, Philly, Atlanta, and Ohio.' And I thought like, 'Man, hip hop was really an agent for change and how amazing is its reach that this man is calling me to help out when he campaigned.' I need you to assist me, give me the ball, I’m Michael Jordan and I’ll get this done. He said: "I got a phone call and it was like, 'Hello? Jay?' - I got to work on my Obama accent - And he called me and he said, 'You know, it’s the fourth quarter. "Īfter reflecting on his career and his influences, the '99 Problems' hitmaker recalled meeting with Barack Obama on his presidential campaign and how being asked to help him made him realise the "power" of hip-hop. I want to be like those guys.' And so I set out on my journey. "I watch these guys, and they have big gold chains and leather and sometimes even the red, black, green medallions and whatever they wore, everybody would wear the next day. "When thinking about what I was going to say tonight, these heroes just kept coming to my mind, Rakim and Big Daddy Kane and KRS-One and Chuck D, and, of course, a fellow inductee, LL Cool J. Much like punk rock, it gave us this anticulture, this subgenre, and there were heroes in it.
And you know, growing up, we didn’t think we could be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. He said: "Thank you, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, for this incredible honour.
OK, now they’re gonna show a little film, and this film shows the reasons why this band is one of the greatest rock & roll bands in the world."īefore giving their own speeches, Foo Fighters gave a quick three-song performance of 'Best of You', 'My Hero' and 'Everlong'.Įlsewhere, Jay-Z admitted it was an "incredible honour" to be inducted into the hall because hip-hop had previously been dismissed as a "fad". "I mean, it’s not just any Hall of Fame - it’s the f****** Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. And tonight, you’re gonna be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.' You’re here in Cleveland, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. I was just saying to them in the dressing room, 'Guys, this is it. " It’s Dave, Taylor, Nate, Pat, Chris, and Rami – all the members of the Foo Fighters. So Dave’s got the same problem, and he’s got to think of a name for the group, so he comes up with Foo Fighters.
"Anyway, so me, I’m gonna name my new group, and I call them Wings. Dave’s group broke up, what’s he do? He makes an album where he plays all the instruments himself. In my case, I said, 'Well, I’ll make an album where I play all the instruments myself.' So I did that. So the question is, what do you do now? We both were presented with that question. His group broke up under tragic circumstances. He said: "We had a great time with our groups, but eventually tragedy happened and my group broke up.
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