Music Mogul Jay-Z appeared on Real Time With Bill Maher” this weekend alongside former Massachusetts congressman Barney Frank and Alexis Goldstein of Occupy Wall Street.
During his time on “Real Time” Jay discussed politics and talked about budgetary cuts that have eliminated police presence in low-income neighborhoods. He quickly disagreed with Frank when he said that all communities wanted more police on their streets.
“More jobs would be better than police,” he said. “I don’t want to scare America, but the real problem is there’s no middle class; the gap between the have’s and the have not’s is getting wider and wider. It’s going to be a problem that no amount of police can solve.”
Jay was also asked by Maher about his recent beef with singer and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte.
“If it was a real problem, I’m not very difficult to find, especially for a man of that stature. he could reach out to me and we could have a conversation and do some good together,” Jay said. “I just thought it was a bit grandstanding … and I didn’t appreciate that. Especially dragging my wife into it, it was a bit of a low blow.”
Information from Eurweb.com contributed to this report.
Music Mogul Jay-Z appeared on Real Time With Bill Maher” this weekend alongside former Massachusetts congressman Barney Frank and Alexis Goldstein of Occupy Wall Street.
During his time on “Real Time” Jay discussed politics and talked about budgetary cuts that have eliminated police presence in low-income neighborhoods. He quickly disagreed with Frank when he said that all communities wanted more police on their streets.
“More jobs would be better than police,” he said. “I don’t want to scare America, but the real problem is there’s no middle class; the gap between the have’s and the have not’s is getting wider and wider. It’s going to be a problem that no amount of police can solve.”
Jay was also asked by Maher about his recent beef with singer and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte.
“If it was a real problem, I’m not very difficult to find, especially for a man of that stature. he could reach out to me and we could have a conversation and do some good together,” Jay said. “I just thought it was a bit grandstanding … and I didn’t appreciate that. Especially dragging my wife into it, it was a bit of a low blow.”
Information from Eurweb.com contributed to this report.
