When a writer for The Atlantic was in the same restaurant as our President Barack Obama recently, he got to ask him everyone’s favorite question…Jay or Kanye? The Pres. had quite an interesting answer! Read his hilarious response below.

Marisa Mendez

“Kanye or Jay-Z?” The president smiles. “Jay-Z,” he says, as if the answer should be obvious.

“Although I like Kanye,” Obama continues, with an easy smile. “He’s a Chicago guy. Smart. He’s very talented.” He is displaying his larger awareness of the question, looking relaxed, cerebral but friendly, alive to the moment, waiting for me to get to the heart of the matter.

“Even though you called him a jackass?,” I ask.“He is a jackass,” Obama says, in his likable and perfectly balanced modern-professorial voice. “But he’s talented.”