Why Oprah Told Gayle King To Stop Asking Jay-Z For An Interview

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00:00 Come on, get into this outfit, though.

00:01 - Hello, guys.

00:02 - There's Gayle King in the building.

00:04 How you doing?

00:05 - I'm so good.

00:06 - I know you are.

00:08 I know you are.

00:09 - I'm so happy to be here.

00:10 - I feel like, how you doing?

00:11 - I see you guys trying to scoop bites.

00:14 So good to see you.

00:15 - Good to see you too, you look great.

00:16 - Do I look like I'm ready for the race?

00:18 Good to see you too.

00:19 - Yes.

00:20 - Good to see you.

00:21 Don't you want to talk to Kelty?

00:22 (laughing)

00:23 - See, when the stars collide, I love it.

00:26 I love that "Forever in You"

00:28 is also still the producer hat.

00:30 I love that, no matter where you go, even now, I love it.

00:34 - I just can't help it, I just can't help it.

00:36 And they're both really adorable, I love it.

00:38 I think they're both terrific people.

00:39 - Everyone's rooting for them.

00:40 I know he's so tired of people asking

00:42 when they're gonna get engaged, Sean.

00:44 - Oh yeah.

00:45 - So when's the ring happening, when's it gonna happen?

00:46 - They don't like that question.

00:47 - No, they do not, they don't.

00:48 - They don't like it.

00:49 - They don't.

00:50 Okay, Formula One, I know you're like a real fan.

00:52 - I am a real fan,

00:53 only because I met Lewis Hamilton years ago.

00:55 - And it changes, doesn't it?

00:57 - Yeah, because I never paid any attention to it.

00:59 - And then you meet Lewis.

01:00 - And now all of a sudden I'm like,

01:01 what is the tire that they're using?

01:03 Is it a soft tire, is it a hard tire, you know?

01:06 All of that stuff.

01:06 Also, what is the track like?

01:08 What are the conditions on the track?

01:09 Lewis, I should say, loves driving in the rain.

01:13 Unfortunately, it's not raining tonight,

01:14 but he could kill it in the rain.

01:16 But the forecast called for rain earlier.

01:18 - And we were all a little nervous

01:19 that it was gonna be raining tonight.

01:20 - But you're so right, you look at it very differently

01:22 when you know, listen, and I just know a little bit.

01:25 I am not an expert, but I love it, I love the sport.

01:29 - What was your first car?

01:30 Do you remember what your first car was?

01:32 - Yes, a 1954 Ford station wagon

01:36 that my family had was old, old, old car,

01:38 and I took it and decorated it,

01:40 and I was so thrilled to have it.

01:41 - Right, what do you mean you decorated it?

01:42 - No, it couldn't have been a '54.

01:44 No, let me take that back.

01:45 Couldn't have been a '54.

01:46 - But it was a Ford station wagon.

01:47 - It was, it was a Ford station wagon.

01:49 I forgot the year.

01:50 It was a Ford station wagon.

01:52 By decorate, I mean I took a carpet,

01:55 did little chunks of the carpet to put it in the back,

01:58 had it detailed, had the nerve to have it detailed.

02:01 - I know that's right.

02:02 - And I was in high school

02:03 and thrilled to have a Ford station wagon.

02:05 - Proud of your ride.

02:06 - Yes, yes. - Absolutely.

02:07 Can I just tell you that there was,

02:10 I have not seen an interview recently

02:12 that made me more happy than you in the studio with Jay-Z.

02:17 - Oh my, I'm still floating from that, honestly.

02:21 - You had to be buzzing the entire time down to that library.

02:25 - I was buzzing the time, I was really buzzing after.

02:28 - Really?

02:29 - Yeah, because you don't know.

02:31 And you know he doesn't like to do interviews.

02:32 And I really, I was shameless.

02:35 - Did you get a sense at any point,

02:36 he was like, oh, he's starting to tighten up a little bit?

02:38 - No, honestly, no, I didn't the whole time.

02:41 And I think that I just groveled,

02:43 that it became embarrassing.

02:44 Even Oprah said, Oprah said,

02:46 "You are making a damn fool of yourself.

02:48 "Stop asking him.

02:49 "He doesn't want to do it."

02:51 But I couldn't let it go because he never said no, no, no.

02:54 He just kept delaying, delaying, delaying.

02:56 Oprah said, "He's being polite

02:57 "'cause he doesn't want to tell you no."

02:58 But I kept coming back, I kept coming.

03:01 - How about now?

03:02 - Yes.

03:02 - How about this weekend?

03:03 - I don't know why he said yes or why he changed his mind.

03:05 I'm just grateful that he did.

03:07 But when you see that exhibit at the library,

03:09 you can sort of understand that.

03:10 When you look at his history and his resume

03:12 and why he's doing what he's doing.

03:14 So I'm forever grateful.

03:15 And I think people who didn't pay attention to his music,

03:18 I had an older woman who was,

03:20 not the Jay-Z demographic, let's put it that way.

03:24 - Gotcha, yeah.

03:25 - And she came up to me and she said,

03:26 "You know, Gail, I never listened to that type of music,"

03:29 she says to me, "but after listening to his interview,

03:32 "I'm going to go to the library.

03:34 "I want to see the library

03:35 "and I want to listen to his music."

03:37 And I said, "You should get 99 Problems, ma'am.

03:39 "You'll enjoy that."

03:40 (Gail laughing)

03:41 I was cracking up.

03:43 That's a good recommendation.

03:46 - She's somewhere with headphones right now like, "Oh."

03:48 - I got 99 Problems.

03:50 - Put up A1.

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