{"id":6986,"date":"2010-02-24T23:16:20","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T04:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=6986"},"modified":"2010-02-24T23:19:09","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T04:19:09","slug":"jay-z-tells-all-about-beyoncethat-is-tells-all-you-need-to-know-nosey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=6986","title":{"rendered":"Jay-Z Tells All About Beyonce…That Is, Tells All You Need To Know, Nosey."},"content":{"rendered":"

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O.K.: In fact, he wasn’t actually all that forthcoming, which should be expected at this point, right?<\/p>\n

But, as someone who’s interviewed Jay-Z on TV before<\/a>, what’s extremely cool to me about his humorous chat with the BBC’s Jonathan Ross\u2014of Friday Night with…<\/em><\/a> <\/em>fame\u2014is watching Jigga’s charm on open display.<\/p>\n

As Mr. Carter parries with the chummy Brit, endlessly deferring Ross’s faux-friendly entreaties, his timing is impeccable, with each pause and sideways glance as perfectly placed as they are in his raps. Indeed, it’s a whole performance, yet a good part of it is silent.<\/p>\n

But what most dawns on this writer as I watch the clip is that Jay didn’t merely become “the biggest rapper on the planet,” as the show’s web site notes<\/a>, by clever alliterations, a clothing line, or, again, marrying one of music’s biggest stars.<\/p>\n

In part, he did it by being a nice guy. Which sounds like a clich\u00e9, until you think of the fact that, in a field whose artists are lampooned for their ice grills, he smiles more than almost anybody. Now, laught at that<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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O.K.: In fact, he wasn’t actually all that forthcoming, which should be expected at this point, right? But, as someone who’s interviewed Jay-Z on TV before, what’s extremely cool to me about his humorous chat with the BBC’s Jonathan Ross\u2014of Friday Night with… fame\u2014is watching Jigga’s charm on open display. As Mr. Carter parries with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[44,51,10,42,76,15,8,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6986"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6986"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7015,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6986\/revisions\/7015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}