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President Barack Obama’s love of Jay-Z’s music has been well documented over the year, but what other hip-hop acts are on the Presidential iPod?

In a compelling interview in the October 15th issue of Rolling Stone magazine, President Obama talks candidly about the struggles he’s facing in office from the Republican party, as well as all of the goals he has accomplished after just under two years in the Oval Office.

He also reveals that he’s just started listening to Nas & Lil’ Wayne.

What music have you been listening to lately? What have you discovered, what speaks to you these days?

My iPod now has about 2,000 songs, and it is a source of great pleasure to me. I am probably still more heavily weighted toward the music of my childhood than I am the new stuff. There’s still a lot of Stevie Wonder, a lot of Bob Dylan, a lot of Rolling Stones, a lot of R&B, a lot of Miles Davis and John Coltrane. Those are the old standards.

A lot of classical music. I’m not a big opera buff in terms of going to opera, but there are days where Maria Callas is exactly what I need.

Thanks to Reggie [Love, the president’s personal aide], my rap palate has greatly improved. Jay-Z used to be sort of what predominated, but now I’ve got a little Nas and a little Lil Wayne and some other stuff, but I would not claim to be an expert. Malia and Sasha are now getting old enough to where they start hipping me to things. Music is still a great source of joy and occasional solace in the midst of what can be some difficult days.

Now can we get Reggie to give Obama some early Mos Def and maybe some Devin The Dude (hey, we read Dreams Of My Father), and we’ll be really happy.

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