It seems like Beyonce will have some trouble marrying long time boyfriend Jay-z, and she can thank his dad for it.
The God MC and President of Def Jam revealed that he hasn’t allowed himself to get close to anyone since his dad, Adnes Reeves, walked out on his family more than 20 years ago.
“I became more guarded,” the Hip Hop Mogul says in an unusually revealing interview in Rolling Stone. “I never wanted to be attached to something and get that taken away again. And it affects my relationships with women. Cause even when I was with women I wasn’t really with them.”
His father wound stems from a fight in which Jay’s uncle was stabbed in the chest. Reeves became consumed with wreaking revenge on his brother’s killer. Having reconciled with Reeves shortly before his death in 2003, Jay confessed that, at 35, he’s ready to become a father himself in “the next five years.”
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But the man who grew up as Sean Carter is still keeping people at a distance. After spending two years working with writer Dream Hampton on his memoir, The Black Book, Jay doesn’t want the public to read it. In fact, he can’t bring himself to read it.
“I know that people really want to know about me,” he says, “and I thought I was ok with it, but as it got closer and closer, I said, ‘What am I doing?'”
Hampton, we hear, is far from pleased with her subject’s sudden shyness. Particularly when he’s so eager to cash in on his fame by offering his image to any corporation through his Jay-Z Blue licensing company.
Former business partner Damon Dash isn’t too happy by the transformation of Sean Carter.
“One time in the winter, when he first took the Def Jam job, we got on an elevator,” says Dash. “He had on a suit with shoes and a trench coat. And I had on my State Property and my hat to the side. It was ill. Our conversation was brief, wasn’t no malice but he was not the same person I had met.”
