He plots campaign bid...
Jason Gregory

11:12 3rd November 2010

Jay-Z has hinted that he may run to become US president but said people would have to wait for at least another two terms.

The 40-year-old rapper made the revelation during a discussion about current president Barack Obama’s term in office, which has been dealt a blow in the midterm elections.

"Give me a chance," he told BBC Newsbeat. "Maybe in eight years, I'll be the president."

Jay-Z, who was an ardent supporter of Obama’s presidential bid, said the current president still needed time, and that it was inevitable he would experience “peaks and valleys”.

"In order to judge someone, you have to judge what they inherit,” the rapper said. "He inherited the worst economy, war, just a horrible time in American history.

"So if we think he can solve that, I mean, we don't think he's God, do we. He's a human being. He's going to need time to figure that out.”

Jay-Z is currently promoting his new memoirs, Decoded. The rapper is also in the UK to work on his new joint album with Kanye West.

Music Stars For President Barack Obama

  • Shannon Leto, Jared Leto and Tomo Milisevic of 30 Seconds To Mars flash Obama t-shirts at the MTV Europe Music Awards in Liverpool

  • Bruce Springsteen performing at the 'We Are One' concert with Barack Obama and his family looking on proudly

  • Sean 'Diddy' Combs speaking at the Last Chance For Change rally at Florida Memorial College, Miami Gardens, Florida last November.

  • Beyonce Knowles at the Promote The Vote rally in Philadelphia – held just a day before the election Obama won

  • Queen Latifah shows her support for President-elect Barack Obama with a sticker on her new Rolls-Royce as she pumps gas at a 76 gas station last November. Surely obscuring the number plate is illegal?!

  • Sheryl Crow performing at the 'We Are One' inaugural concert at the Lincoln Memorial. Fittingly she wore a Barack Obama t-shirt to mark the occasion.

  • Busta Rhymes at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, showing his support last summer for the then presidential candidate

  • Will.i.am, complete with Barack Obama badge, at the 'Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa' premiere at the Mann Village Theater, California.

  • John Legend performing at the Bloomsbury Ballroom in London last October, spreading his support for Obama

  • R&B singer Eric Benet walking down Robertson Boulevard, Los Angeles wearing a Barack Obama T-shirt

  • Legendary hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons speaking at the Last Chance For Change rally at Florida Memorial College, Miami Gardens, Florida

  • The infamous video of a masked P Diddy doing a Barack Obama impression which surfaced in late 2008

  • Lil Kim shows her support at an October 2008 rally for the President Elect hosted by The Source magazine

  • Justin Timberlake at the Last Chance for Change' rally at the Clark County Amphitheater, Las Vegas

  • Good Charlotte's Benji Madden wearing an Obama shirt during a free concert in Baltimore last summer

  • Beyoncé Knowles, wearing an Obama shirt, takes a stroll with Jay-Z in New York

  • Alicia Keys in London, July 2008, wearing a Barack Obama t-shirt

  • Black Eyed Peas' Fergie put on a show at the Puyallup Washington Fair wearing an Barack Obama T-shirt

  • Bono was one of the biggest names on the 'We Are One' concert bill, performing with his band U2. He told the hundreds of thousands in the crowd that Obama was the man to complete Martin Luther King's American dream.

  • Bruce Springsteen at the Barack Obama campaign rally at Benjamin Franklin Parkway, October 2008.

  • P. Diddy arrives wearing a cast complete with Barack Obama badge to a Madonna concert at the Madison Square Garden in midtown, Manhattan.

  • Heidi Klum and Seal strolling in the Soho Streets of New York City wearing Barack Obama badges.

  • Seal later put on a Barack Obama mask for the paparazzi

  • Hollywood megastar turned singer Scarlett Johansson arriving at Tegel Airport in Berlin wearing a Barack Obama campaign badge

  • Young Jeezy out and about in Manhattan wearing a Barack Obama t-shirt, August 2008

  • Madonna leaves her London gym last September wearing a t-shirt emblazoned with the face of Obama

  • Eve with pro-Barack Obama nail art

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