When asked if he listens to Hip Hop Obama says, "I enjoy it, but these days I don't have the time to listen to it all the time," and mentions having Jay Z and Kanye, among others on his ipod.  

When Sway asked him what role Hip Hop played in his life, he said "I'm a little older than hip-hop culture.  I was there at the beginning, but I was already getting older. ... What I've appreciated, watching this hip-hop generation, is to see how entrepreneurial they've been. In the past, musicians oftentimes were commodities. They were just shuffled around. Obviously, they did well, but they didn't have the vision to say, 'I'm going to build a business. I'm going to build my own studio. I'm going to create my own production operations.' I think they're a lot more sophisticated than in the past, and that is a wonderful thing."  

What he most like about Hip Hop is, "Them (rappers) stretching out more and thinking about social responsibility and how they can impact the culture in a positive way," he said. "And I hope that continues."

When Sway asked him about Hip Hop's greatest debate, who the greatest rapper of all time was, the presidential nominee jokingly said "Oh no, I'm not going to get caught up in all that."