He's one of the biggest, wealthiest and most successful music artists
in the world, but Jay-Z still has to chat a woman up just like any old
bloke.
In fact, he said his now-wife Beyonce wasn't in the least
bit impressed by who he was, and even if he'd worked in a petrol
station, she would have been his.
In a frank interview with Vanity Fair,
the rapper spoke about wooing
the singer and how they were "trying to date each other" when they both featured on the magazine's cover in 2001.
He
said: "You’ve got to try first. You got to dazzle . . . wine and dine.
She’s a charming Southern girl, you know, she’s not impressed."
Jay-Z
- real name Shawn Carter - also confirmed that a line on his latest
album which says, "she was a good girl 'til she knew me", is about
Beyonce, who is "gangsta now".
The couple have now been married for five years and have an
18-month-old daughter called Blue Ivy, who gives a whole new meaning to
Daddy's Girl.
Because
the little cutie pie is Jay-Z's biggest fan and loves hearing his new album played over and over and over again.
He
said: "She loves all the songs. She plays a song and she goes, "More,
Daddy, more . . . Daddy song". She’s my biggest fan. If no one bought
the Magna Carta [album], the fact that she loves it so much, it gives me
the greatest joy.
"And that’s not like a cliché. I’m really
serious. Just to see her, 'Daddy song, more, Daddy'. She’s genuine,
she’s honest, because she doesn’t know it makes me happy. She just wants
to hear it.”
But things were always so rosy for the world's
second-richest rapper (sorry, Shawn, P Diddy's just that little bit
richer!), who used to sell crack cocaine just to put clothes on his
back.
Jay-Z grew up in a housing project in Brookyln, New York and
was raised by his mother, who he said knew he was selling drugs, but
turned a blind eye because it "was normal".
He said: "Crack was everywhere - it was inescapable. You could smell
it in the hallways, that putrid smell; I can’t explain it, but it’s
still in my mind when I think about it.”
And while he sold the drug, he never took it, and it was only later that he realised the devastating effect it had on people.
He
said: "I started looking at the community on the whole, but in the
beginning, no. I was thinking about surviving. I was thinking about
improving my situation. I was thinking about buying clothes.”
Now
he can buy all the clothes he wants, from any store, at any price, seeing as he has an estimated $500million in the bank.
But
he's not fussed about money and said: "I'm not motivated by that... I
don't sit around with my friends and talk about money, ever. On a
record, that's different."
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