According to Billboard, during a recent listening session of his Watch the Throne joint album with fellow superstar Kanye West, rapper turned business mogul Jay-Z, openly discussed the slaying of reputed Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden, and his views on the criticisms of our nation’s current President Barack Obama.

Speaking to a small room of music journalists just hours before the Labor Department released its monthly jobs report, which found national unemployment numbers rising to 9.2 percent in the month of June, Jay-Z said of the criticism, “He’s the president, it’s fair.” “You gotta fix [the country's current climate],” Jay-Z continued. “Can’t fix it all in one day. Numbers don’t lie, it’s f*cked up out there. Unemployment is still high.” Jay-Z then proceeded to joke about how Obama should have allowed him to deliver the news of Osama Bin Laden’s death on May 1. Acting as if he were speaking at a press conference, Jay-Z adopted the accent of a street tough and said, “He was a threat, you know what I mean? We handled that.” He delivered the line and laughed. (Billboard)

Jay is definitely speaking the truth on that one. Women lie. Men lie. But these unemployment numbers sure as hell don’t. People are losing their jobs left and right. It’s real out here man. And it’s only getting worse.

Thoughts??