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Jay-Z Opens Up About Carseats, Diapers And Kanye West
Posted on Mon Nov 14, 2011 11:30 AM PDT
Jay-Z is "King of the Year" for GQ, and the notoriously private rapper opens up about his family life in the mag's December issue.
On the decision to confirm wife Beyonce Knowles' pregnancy at the MTV Video Music Awards, Jay said, “It was actually Bey who wanted to [announce] it. You want to be in control of your life.” So what about putting a car seat in the Maybach? "Yeah,” Jay smiles. “Wouldn’t that be great? That would be a great picture.” But will the music mogul change his little one's diapers? "Of course, of course. One hundred percent," he says.
Jay's father abandoned him at a very early age, and it had a profound affect on the rapper. “If your dad died before you were born, yeah, it hurts -- but it’s not like you had a connection with something that was real," he says. "Not to say it’s any better -- but to have that connection and then have it ripped away was, like, the worst. My dad was such a good dad that when he left, he left a huge scar. He was my superhero.”
Jay also chats about working with Kanye West, revealing that his Watch the Throne collaborator is obsessed with perfection. “I think he just can’t help himself," Jay says. "He puts so much into everything, and he’s like, ‘You have to treat it like I treat it.’ It drives you crazy sometimes -- like when you’ve put seventy-five versions of a snare on one song and he’s like, ‘No!’ and you’re like, ‘Come on, man.’"
The December issue of GQ is on stands nationwide on 11/22.
Image courtesy of Nathaniel Goldberg/GQ
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Comments
Zombie fried dope head..
There is no need for clarity or plain talk; we slang chat trash and money pours in, use a brother and his cause, you know the way home, like the didn't die and suffer in vain.. I am alive and making a profit them ya'll so they are good in their battle.. all is good among us..
Was this the best part of the interview bc it's pretty lame. Zzzzzz
“If your dad died before you were born, yeah, it hurts -- but it’s not like you had a connection with something that was real, THAT'S JUST WRONG ON SOOO MANY LEVELS!!!
I LOVE Jay-Z even more now!! he is great!!
Why is everyone hatin' on Jay-Z, he's amazing!!! Great Rapper, great husband, smart & financially sound. 100% classy, not ghetto at all.
If you knew J Z and bey bey friends and dealings with crooks and con's and commies in the lowdown, forget ghetto gansters.. you'd have a shock and a half and fall down dead, totally unreality from them on the reality of their real life and opinions..
Sorry, no use for him after the T-shirt issue. He is just a money grubbing bastarrrd.
one of the ugliest homo-sapiens ever
I read where Bey is gonna build another house on top of her house, so when her baby is grown & married, they would live upstairs from her. How damned creepy is that?