In the final installment of this four-part interview, Jay-Z spoke about fatherhood, his relationship with Kanye West and his work with Timbaland on “Tom Ford.” Jay explained how the Timbo collab came about and how “easy” it was to work with Yeezy.
“I’m a writer. So, literally, I’m saying, ‘the birth of my child gave me this new energy and focus’ so ‘Blue told me to remind you’ but just the energy and focus. She obviously can’t say, ‘Fuck the shit y’all talkin’ ’bout. My dad’s the one.’ She’s 17 months. I mean, [laughing], she’s amazing but come on. So, I’m using a metaphor to say that her energy and presence gave me the focus again to remind you exactly who I am.'”
After speaking on fatherhood, Jay took on “Tom Ford.”
“This one came midway through,” he shared of track. “This was about halfway through and it had a different hook… I loved the beat but that [hook] was so typical to me. It was like, ‘Aw, that’s just too…’ So once I got rid of that – it took me awhile to get it out of my mind and then once I got it out of my mind – it was like, ‘This is Tom Ford.’ … Almost like saying something is dope, not just a suit.”
He then revealed a bit about his time with Kanye West in the making of Watch the Throne.
When told that witnessing the two perform was “an amazing experience,” Jay-Z replied “For you!” with a chuckle.
“I’m just playing,” he clarified. “It actually was really easy because of the relationship. It’s always been a big brother thing and a respect thing. It’s always a good experience but he’s gonna challenge everything because he’s really trying to test it and poke holes to make sure that it stands up to the test, which is good. I admire that. It kind of works for me.”
In the interview with BBC Radio 1, Jay also discussed fatherhood and Beyonce. For more of that, check the interview clip below.
In part one of the series, Jay-Z spoke about Magna Carta Holy Grail, Timbaland and his growth. Part two dealt with fame’s impact and effects and part three focused on politics, racism and sexism.
RELATED: Jay-Z Speaks On Racism, Sexism & Support For President Obama
Great interview. Jay-Z def has a good perspective on life, and my man knows how to ask the right questions
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Review of MCHG
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Hmm! Jay-Z news is everywhere. Do you think Jay-Z is overrated- http://www.kaysrapzone.com/2013/07/do-you-think-jay-z-is-overrated.html
because he just released an album, it’s called Magna Carta Holy Grail
and the album was garbage
duh he’s all over. he jst came out with an album. good or bad, tht shit went platinum within a week, and thts something to recognize.
GIVE ME A CHANCE
Youtube is all about finding new artist, & though I been rapping for a while im still consider a new artist. I just want my music heard thats all, im not looking for no record deal, getting famous ‘r anything like that.! so please just spare a few sec. to check me out, & if you like what you heard please SUBSCRIBE so ill know you actually listen & support
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hhdx are true jay z dickriders
Jay-Z is not as deep as he thinks he is. He’s also not that good of a rapper. People forget that most people thought Reasonable Doubt was okay prior to Biggie’s death when NY needed a new hood hero.
I agree. Ja Rule is deeper, and has more insight on what it means to be a billionaire.
Totally agree with ja rule comment.
Anyway – I agree but he certainly deeper than people first think… kids and women think its pop.
Let me repeat. Jay aint never been POP>>>>>>>>>
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Man there is rarely a positive comment on this website.
NOT A JAY-Z FAN, BUT DAMN SURE RESPECT HIS PHILOSOPHY AND WORKING ETHICS.
Jay Z*
AMEN!
Crazy how Jay has matured. I’ve never been a big Jay fan but dude has gained my respect the past couple of years because of his business mind. His little girl has changed him for the better now and can careless what others think of him. He’s doing it for his kid now. RESPECT!!!
Don’t get it twisted. He’s doing all this for Beyonce. The minute he stops buying her things, she’s seen on camera with Ja Rule.
fuck this bullshit. Jigga is a sucker for love! Since beyonce came in his life nigga became a pussy
^ok…..
Anyway the OP has point. I truely belive the older i get the deeper Jay’z lyrics get.
When I was 16,17 I listen to all shit. But once u go through shit his shit is like 100% autobiographical its unreal…
Notice how he immediately goes to the big brother and respect card. Ye’s making music for aliens and he’s talking about respect and admiration like Ye doesn’t believe he’s a better artist than Jay.
^ its a boss move from Jay.
Plus Kanye knows Rule 1. Never outshine the master!
jay z fans are the worst when defending him they bring up album sales and money for his crappy music these days then they go on and attack lil wayne who’s fans use the same defence but they say that money and sucess doesn’t equal rap skills. Jay z fans are a bunch of real hiphop fan wannabes like everyone else.
Fuck outta here pussy Jay-z fans post up LYRICS that’s the difference
does this fool even listen music? or does he just skim through it?
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I thought the song was about me. I hate rap!
Don’t worry Harry… One Day!
together with my homie Gucci Mane we are the realest ever.
i aint talking on records about selling dope i sell dope in real life! Talking about jail nigga? I do jailtime 14 years! Not like faggot Prodigy and Wayne 2 years.
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Hows he fit in that new bugatti?
Im probably the biggest Jay fan of all time…but yall are saturating this website with him damn!
Jay-Z sucks man. His new album didn’t impress me at all. Decent beats, and lyrics were too bad. But the delivery was lacking hard. Wasn’t feeling his shit at ALL. He’s almost talking on the mic.. smh
jayz killed tupac killuminati
This series of Jay-Z interviews is amazing. #tomford.
Jay Z *
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pC1YuWwgKP4
I’m done talking
Ran up in the spot gun smoking
Shot it in the air, one woke him
Son soaking, sweating in his bed like dun’ loc’in!
Thinking to himself what done provoked him
His thoughts is racing like a vulcan
I swear I saw a lightbulb when
He finally realized who was the culprit
I said yeah, remember me from Friend or Foe when
I told you don’t ever ever come around here no more
Time to pay now, you try to rise, I wave the gun – lay down
This time you’re really going to listen to Jay now
I try to talk sensibly, hoping that eventually you realize
I had this locked and it just wasn’t meant to be
Plus I had sympathy when we all bought rims with your keys
And it was an afterthought that maybe you’ll try to avenge me
But I was like “Nah”, Homes had to know he was wrong
And if you caught me on the foul now you would sing me the same song
Plus you promised
And that’s really no fun
And here I find you in this Motel 6 with all these guns
And all your goons, lined up in adjoining rooms
Like some wild cowboys coming to get me at high noon
But my mind’s like a flower in bloom
Peep how my eyes just scour the room
I’m alert, plus I paid the clerk I got it laid out
You think you the first nigga I played out, in a 2 hotel town?
Come on now, I peeped your Lexus AS you
Left the exit got some niggas on that side of the town
Money well invested, rudely interrupted
Jamaican accents (Boy you know who you dun fucked with?)
A gun in your face and that’s all you can come up with?
I’m done talking, back up and clap them, one in the abdomen
Do me a favor dude, get 2 ice cubes I pass them
Take that ice up, for the nicest MC
And please yo, tell BIG, he’s unbelievable
Friend or foe
Motherfuckers can’t rhyme no more, bout crime no more
Til I’m no more, cause I’m so raw
My flow expose holes that they find in yours
Wasn’t for me, niggas still be dying for whores
But I hate when a nigga sit back, admirin yours
Young blood you better get that, we frying because
Niggas don’t want to be confined to riding the iron horse
And don’t listen to the rappers, they dying to floss
I used to be O.T., applyin the force
Shoot up the whole block, then the iron I toss
Come back with the click playing Diana Ross
I’m the boss and this is how it’s gonna be
Burnt the turnpike, wild miles on the V
I got mouths to feed till they put flowers on me
And kiss my cold cheek, chicks crying like I was Cochise
Tombstone read ‘He Was Holdin No Leaks’
Started from the crack game and then so sweet
Freaked it to the rap game, Jigga the O.G
On MTV, telling em how I sold D
And used to bag work up out of apartment 4-B
Me and my homie, started out coldies
Picked the mailbox lock cause I ain’t have no key
Had the cable with the anchor when Jaz made ‘Sophie’
Then I went low key, but now I’m back it’s on
Motherfuckers
Jigga, uh-huh, yeah
Roc-A-Fella y’all
Uhh, feel this
this interviewer is brutal…way too casual, trying to be cool. Shut up and let him answer your unthoughtful questions
Martin had a dream, Hov got a team
My chain already heavy, don’t let me get a ring
Parades down Flatbush, Confetti on my fur
Turn right in Red Hook, niggas heavy on the curb
See most my niggas died early twenties or late teens
I’m just trying to come from under the thumb of this regime
1% of a billion more than niggas even seen
Still they wanna act like it’s an everyday thing, clean
Sometimes a love won’t let go
Hard as I try I know it shows
Everybody’s telling me
You’ll be over her eventually
But how am I supposed to feel so secure
When I keep wonderin’
Who’s holding Donna now
And I keep wonderin’
Who’s heart she’s knocking around
There’s nothing I wouldn’t do
To be in his shoes somehow
And I keep wonderin’
Who’s holding Donna now
And I keep wonderin’
What magic can be found
To turn me back to the one
Who’s holding Donna now
The letter started with goodbye
I’ve read it half a million times
Tell me this is just a dream
When I wake up she’ll be here next to me
Tell me it will be just the way it was, oh
Well I keep wonderin’
Who’s holding Donna now
And I keep wonderin’
Who’s heart she’s knocking aound
There’s nothing I wouldn’t do
To be in his shoes right now
And I keep wonderin’
Who’s holding Donna now
And I keep wonderin’
What magic can be found
To turn me back to the one
Who’s holding Donna now
Give me a ticket for an airplane
I ain’t got time to take a fast train
Oh ,the lonely days are gone
I’ll be right home
My baby she wrote me a letter
I don’t care how much money I got to spend
I won’t find my way home again
Oh the lonely days are gone
I’ll be right home
My baby, she wrote me a letter
She wrote me a letter
Said she couldn’t live with out me no more
Listen to me mister I gotta get back to
My baby once more
Anyway
Today I saw somebody
Who looked just like you
She walked like you do,
I thought it was you
As she turned the corner,
I called out your name
I felt so ashamed
When it wasn’t you,
Wasn’t you, oh
You are everything and everything is you
Oh, you are everything and everything is you
Oh, you are everything and everything is you
How can I forget
When each face that I see
Brings back memories of being with you?
I just can’t go on living life as I do,
Comparing each girl to you,
Knowing they just won’t do,
They’re not you, oh
You are everything and everything is you
Oh, you are everything and everything is you
Oh, you are everything and everything is you
You are everything and everything is you
Oh, you are everything and everything is you
Oh, you are everything and everything is you
You are everything and everything is you
Oh, you are everything and everything is you
Oh, you are everything and everything is you
Now I know you couldn’t wait
to hear kiss over premier
kill you on tape
then, watch it over a beer
cause you aint nothing but a movie
with extensive footage
that’s the reason they gon’ leave you with extensive bullets
Aint non of ya’ll better than lox
Have all of ya’ll dressed up in a suit
dead in a box
me and my niggas get reder than fox
and i don’t care if i love you
i still want head of the drop
Niggas runnin’ round talkin’ that Y-2-K shit
Crackheads’ll still gon’ want that gray shit
that’s why ima always cop the yay quick
so i suggest all of ya’ll stay off jay dick
Too hard for MTV
Not black enough for BET
Just let me be
Give me all my royalty money
and let me greed
and ima have hoes for six
and hash for three
I never seen no shit like this
This bitch can twist like a damn contortionist
Condom on my dick
Of course it is
This bitch don’t know what abortion is
So I can’t cum in her
Fucks like a porn star
Looks like jenna
Fuck I’m gonna
Cum
I think my rubbers coming off
But oh it’s so fuckin wet and soft
Fuck I’m gonna start letting off
I’m squirting and she’s not getting off
And she’s on top
I’m gonna fucking, oh god
Oh don’t do that
Don’t stop
Stop, don’t, I don’t mean don’t stop
Ah Wait a minute
Oh ohh fack
I’m gonna fucking cum
Ahhhhh FACK was a great song
There was a time when
Broken hearts and broken dreams
Were over
There was a place where
All you could do was
Wish on a four leaf clover
But now is a new time
There is a new place
Where dreams just can’t come true
It started the day when I left you
I remember when I was young
Feeling sick on Sunday morning
I don’t wanna do it anymore
Standing in a line with a dirty mind
Clean it up on Sunday morning
I don’t wanna do it anymore
One day a week we turn the cheek
Oh, how we’d kneel down
Oh, we were so quiet
Never any light there
I don’t care, it’s not right there
Get up early, do your hair
Sunday best on Sunday morning
I don’t wanna see it anymore
Tea and toast in the social hall
We had it all on Sunday morning
I don’t wanna see it anymore
We come in fear , to worship here (x2)
It’s wrong to feel, It’s wrong to care
You must not steal, you must not swear
I don’t wanna do it anymore
I don’t wanna see it anymore
High Yellow sky dweller and the rose gold
Legend of the summer in the Rose Bowl
Came through Pasadena in the low low
Just to show respect to the cholos
Feelin’ like a stranger in my own land
Got me feeling like Brody in Homeland
I just want a shot to show my genius
Standing on the top hold my penis
America tried to emasculate the greats
Murder Malcolm, gave Cassius the shakes
Wait, tell them rumble young man rumble
Try to dim your lights tell you be humble
You know I’m gon shine like a trillion watts
You know a nigga trill as Michael Jackson socks
Sendin’ light out to Compton and the hundred blocks
Lil bastard boy, basking on top
WTF
Kanye and JayZ blow each other that’s their relationship.
and you know this because you watched them
You wrote your foolish comment after reading Hov’s lyrics your past, present and future gens will never right. For your info Hov is the best rapper, mc what are you call it ever to touch the mic.
Look at this faggot telling the world about his dreams.
‘Son sayin I dont pop mollyI rock Tom Ford like those two things is related n shit Shit is like if somebody offer you a glass of water n you like NAH I ALREADY READ A BOOK.’
/Big Ghost/
There are 100’of rappers out their doing their thing but your site talks about 5 people …….jayz, kanye, 2 chains, J cole, Kendrick Lamar………There is way more to our culture than just radio cats….. Please promote cats that need it and help them get some shine….HIP HOP IS NOT ON THE RADIO !!!!!!!!!