How President Obama's Rap #Squad Reacted to Their Secret Meeting
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My Brother's Keeper - On Friday (April 15), President Obama hosted a meeting of the minds, as some of music’s brightest stars were invited to speak with Obama on Justice Reform as part of his #MBK initiative. Among those guests were DJ Khaled, Ludacris, Alicia Keys, Swizz Beatz, J. Cole, Janelle Monae, and many others. The artists’ reactions were similar to those of their fans meeting them, which were pretty cute and sincere. However, the greatest takeaway from this meeting was how hopeful the artists were to make a difference. Check out some of the guests and their reactions to hanging with the POTUS. — Kathy Iandoli(Photos from left: Neilson Barnard/Getty Images for BALLY, Earl Gibson III/Getty Images for BET, Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for Bacardi)
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Common - Common was in attendance for the big meeting before hopping on a plane to Coachella to rock the stage with Ice Cube. That’s one hell of a schedule.(Photo: Common via Instagram)
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DJ Khaled - Obama handed over the keys to Khaled this time. (Photo: DJ Khaled via Instagram)
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Rapsody - Rapsody had a seat at the coveted table and shared on IG that the “energy was amazing.”(Photo: Rapsody via Instagram)
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Busta Rhymes - Busta Rhymes was so moved by the whole day. On IG he wrote: Today was a day that has probably been one of the most powerful days in my life sitting at a round table private meeting with our Amazing President @barackobama and some of my great friends and comrades in the hip hop fraternity like @realcoleworld @talibkweli @kingpush @djkhaled @timbaland @rapsody @therealswizzz @aliciakeys @richforever @janellemonae @common @djkhaled @asaprocky and more to discuss ways to move forward on the mentoring of our youth with the organization that was founded by our president #MYBROTHERSKEEPER and the pushing forward on the immediate change for #PRISONREFORM. Words cannot describe how powerful this day was and how incredible the blessed opportunity was to be surrounded with so much greatness!! #WEGOTWORKTODO!! ##GODISTHEGREATEST!!(Photo: Busta Rhymes via Twitter)
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Pusha T - Pusha T took to IG to express his gratitude for what will be a monumental date in his life forever: "4/15/16 I was invited to the White House by the POTUS to speak about prison reform at a table with many of my peers in music. History was made in that conference room, I'm sure that room has never looked the way it did today. This was my first time ever visiting the White House, I missed that particular school field trip. Thank you again Mr. President for the invite...God is the greatest and Obama is definitely the realest."(Photo: Pusha T via Twitter)
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Nicki Minaj - Even Nicki Minaj asked for President Obama's autograph.(Photo: Nicki Minaj via Instagram)
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Swizz Beatz - “Yesterday was epic!” —Swizz Beatz(Photo: Swizz Beatz via Instagram)
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Rick Ross - Rozay kept it cool about chillin’ in the Oval Office because that’s what bosses do. (Photo: Rick Ross via Twitter)
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Talib Kweli - Kweli is confident that this meeting will materialize into some big things.(Photo: Talib Kweli Greene via Twitter)
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Ludacris - This was Luda’s first time meeting Obama, so he made it count and got himself an autographed copy of The Audacity of Hope.(Photo: Ludacris via Instagram)
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Wale - Folarin collected all of the gems from Barry O and plans on using them.(Photo: Wale via Twitter)
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Chance the Rapper - Chance the Rapper was also invited to the White House on the day before his birthday (April 16), which is quite possibly the greatest birthday present he could ever receive.(Photo: Chance the Rapper via Twitter)