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Journo, 13, interviews Cardi B, Jay-Z & more
This 13-year-old reporter from Brooklyn is getting scoops other interviewers can only dream of — with an assist from the Kardashians.
Jazlyn Guerra has become a YouTube hit, chasing down bold names from Jay-Z, Cardi B, Shaq, Simu Liu, Nicki Minaj, Tom Holland and Kendrick Lamar to Ice-T, Common, Flavor Flav and Michelle Obama for her channel “Jazzy’s World TV.”
Now she’s broken her biggest story: the first-ever interview with North West, Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s 10-year-old daughter — thanks to North being a fan.
Jazzy was with her father, Luis De Hoyos, at the Rolling Loud music festival in Los Angeles earlier this month when she was spotted by North.
“Kanye was performing and my dad and I were walking and we walked past North West and her friend and North West said, ‘Oh, there’s Jazzy!’ ” she told The Post.
“I said, ‘Oh, my gosh, North West just recognized me,’ I should ask her a question. I decided to ask her, ‘Is it OK if I interview you? But before you say yes or no, can you please ask a parent?’ ”
Luckily, Kim Kardashian said yes and North West became the latest big booking for her channel.
“She [Kim] complimented me on my work and my craft too,” Jazzy said.
Meet-and-greets
Jazzy, from Bushwick, began doing interviews at the tender age of 9 in 2020 when her dad, a mentalhealth therapist, took her to meetand-greets with stars and athletes around New York with a karaoke mic and an iPad.
Once she landed her first interview in 2020 at a Knicks game at Madison Square Garden with the opposing team’s head coach, Gregg Popovich of the San Antonio Spurs, Guerra knew she wanted to be a reporter.
“I was very nervous because that was my first ever interview,” she said. “But I knew as soon as I started the interview I wanted to continue with it because of how much I really enjoyed doing the interview and having a conversation with him.”
She and her dad would show up at events like morning shows, sometimes waiting for hours, to flag down a star before Jazzy went to her Brooklyn public school.
She caught Alicia Keys on her way into a morning show in 2021. “You can do anything,” Keys told her. “There’s no limits and no ceilings that’s stopping you.”
That same year it took her two days to get Jay-Z to talk.
“We waited outside his office,” Jazzy said. “He looked back and he
gave me a fist bump. I was devastated that I didn’t get my interview, but my dad told me, ‘Hey maybe tomorrow we can try again.’ ”
The next day, Jay-Z told her: “Just believe in yourself. You’ve got to have ultimate confidence like you do. You’re very confident.”
“It taught me a lot about persistence,” Jazzy said.
Now she has 683,000 subscribers to her YouTube channel, 1 million
followers on Instagram and 1.3 million followers on TikTok.
She quizzed Cardi B on which borough has the best chopped cheese sandwich, warning her: “Do not say The Bronx just because you’re from there. Let’s talk facts.”
The rapper confessed she’d never actually tried one from Brooklyn.
And she put former First Lady Michelle Obama in the hot seat when she asked what skills kids in marginalized communities need to become successful.
“You have to practice who you want to be,” Obama told her. “Who you are as a person, how you carry yourself, how reliable you are, that’s something money can’t buy.”
When she’s off duty, Jazzy loves hanging in her local Bushwick park.
“I do get recognized sometimes,” she said. “I’m trying to get used to that, but it’s pretty fun.”