Jay-Z: 'Give Barack Obama time to succeed'

Jay-Z has said that the US public should allow President Barack Obama time to sort out the country's problems before judging him.

Obama has come under fire recently, with the Republican party recently winning 60 seats from his Democrat party in the House Of Representatives in this week's (November 2) mid-term elections.

Jay-Z, who supported Obama's Presidential campaign in 2008 and attended his official inauguration in Washington DC, told BBC Newsbeat that the state of the country before Obama took over should be considered when assessing his achievements.

"In order to judge someone, you have to judge what they inherit," he said. "In order to get to that sort of success and that dream, you have to go through some peaks and valleys."

He added: "He inherited the worst economy, war, just a horrible time in American history. So if we think he can solve that, I mean, we don't think he's God, do we? He's a human being. He's going to need time to figure that out."

Jay-Z is set to release a book, 'Decoded', on November 16.