Does Barack Obama really make his playlists? The former president insists it’s really him.
thefader.comIt’s an end-of-year tradition: former President Barack Obama shares his favorite books, movies, and songs of the year, and the internet gets to debating whether or not he actually makes them.
And look, it’s an understandable assumption that Obama, like most former high-level government officials, did not spend 2022 blasting “Tití Me Preguntó." But Mr.
Obama really wants you to know that he is actually listening to all that music. The topic was breached during a new half-hour interview with Obama conducted by Hasan Minaj.
When Minaj asked if those playlists are actually made by him, the answer was an emphatic (and somewhat defensive) “I do!” He continues: “People, they believe the books and the movies, but the playlists, they somehow think — and this is mostly coming from young people like you — somehow, y’all think you invented rock ’n’ roll.
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