Jay-Z was interviewed for the April issue of Playboy (hit stands on February 28th) and here are some highlights from the interview.
On women:
“People already know my paranoia about women. When it’s a song about women, its usually the single, which makes people say, This guy is dissing women on every fucking record. But the slower ones are usually more meaningful and serious. Guys don’t want to date me for my money, so I don’t have to worry about them.”
On Beyoncé Knowles:
“I used to see her all the time. We’re not engaged or anything, by the way. We’re just cool. We’re just friends. We don’t really, ah, know each other like that yet. Me and [Memphis] Bleak, we’re tighter. He’s been with me since 1994. Between Beyoncé and him? Beyonce’s got to go.”
On Will Smith:
“I taught Will Smith to play guts. Now he has guts tournaments. I don’t know if he wants people to know that. What if Will Smith gets hooked on gambling? He’s clean-cut, he can’t gamble. We’re having a guts game this Thursday. We’re trying to get Michael Jordan to come. Can I say that, too? Damn, I’m telling everybody’s business.”
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Being “from the hood:”
“‘I’m from the hood.’ It’s a joke. You can’t take that seriously. Rappers, we ain’t from the hood. We got nice homes and nice cars. We from the mansion.”
On guns:
“One time I heard Russel Simmons say, ‘I don’t even want to see a gun. I don’t want no friends with guns.’ I was like, He’s crazy. But now I feel the same way. What’s wrong with me? I’m a gangsta rapper. [Makes a mean face] From the hood.”
On shooting his brother:
“That’s the one thing to this day I regret. My brother was a really, really, really tough person to get along with. He was messed up on drugs really bad.”
