Gwyneth Paltrow interviews Jay Z about his new lifestyle blog and he interview her about hers.
Life + Times
Mr. Carter (a.k.a. Jay-Z), has launched a super cool website canvassing everything that's piquing his interest in the worlds of art, music, technology, design, sports, leisure, and style. I caught up with Jay and asked him about the impetus for starting it, including, among other things, what it's like to be the coolest man on Earth.
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An interview with Jay-Z on his new site, Life + Times:Jacked from Goop
Q: Life + Times is incredible—aesthetically, culturally … When did you get the idea to start it and how long have you been working on it?
A: I started working on it in its various incarnations over a year ago. I've thought about it forever. You know how it works, seeing other sites and being either inspired or saying, "That's shit. I would do it like ..."
Q: I love seeing everything through your filter, how do you decide what you are going to cover? How personal is this?
A: Well there is a basic metric for what we cover but, more importantly, I believe it's how we cover it. The DNA is to basically let the subject speak for itself. We don't want to tell you what to think. As far as how personal? I would say it has to pique my interest.
Q: As someone who has walked through museums with you, eaten with you, heard music with you, I know firsthand how creativity in all areas lifts your consciousness. Do you feel that as a cultural figure of importance it is part of your responsibility to share what inspires you?
A: I think it's every human's job to inspire others, to feed one another's senses. Inspiration begets inspiration times infinity. Imagine if the person that was inspired to create the phonograph didn't share it with the world.
Q: In one word answers, name someone or something in food, music, art and design, style, and sports that inspires you today and your favorite spot to be leisurely.
A:
• Food: Batali (he's like a rock star)
• Music: MARLEY (the perfect blend of love and gangster)
• Art: BASQUIAT (where music and art met and fell in love)
• Style: MARC JACOBS (he takes the Bronx experience like 40 below boots and bubble gooses and puts it on the runway)
*Disclaimer: I know it's one goose 2 geese..
• Sports: Muhammad ALI (enough said)
• And my favorite spot to be leisurely is wherever family, friends, good food and wine are.
Q: You are the coolest man on Earth, how the f did you get like that?
A: I'm around great women, starting with my mom. Women keep men cool. The hotter the chick the cooler the guy ... that sounds like a really bad rap line!
He showed me his, I showed him mine. Check out Jay’s mini interview with me at Life + Times
Oscar-winning actress and my sister Gwyneth Paltrow emailed me and said, “I love your new site. Can I ask you five questions about it?” I said, “I’ll show you mine if you let me see yours.” Here are mine. Go see hers at goop.com. It’s fresh.Jacked from Life and Times
Shawn Carter: The public at large is discovering your ability to sing. When did you first discover you had that talent?
Gwyneth Paltrow: I kind of always sang. My mother has a great voice and was always singing jazz around the house and I think she passed on her musicality to my brother and myself. I sang in an a capella singing group and I always thought that somewhere down the line I would dust off my pipes and use them but I didn’t know I would be so old when it happened. When I sang with you one night at the Royal Albert Hall a few years ago, it was so terrifying. I thought that would be the end of it. This has been a surprise to me as much as anybody else. But I love it.
SC: Personally I was very surprised at your extensive knowledge of hip-hop songs. Particularly how you can sing ’90s hip-hip songs word for word. I can’t even do that! How does a girl from Spence discover hip-hop?
GP: I first was exposed to hip-hop when I was about 16 (1988) by some boys who went to collegiate. The Beastie Boys were sort of the way in for us preppie kids. We were into Public Enemy, Run-DMC and LL Cool J. But then I went to LA the summer between my junior and senior year of high school and I discovered N.W.A which became my obsession. I was fascinated by lyrics as rhythm and how Dre had a such different cadence and perspective from say, Eazy-E, who I thought was one of the most ironic and brilliant voices hip-hop has ever had. It was an accident that I learned every word of Straight Outta Compton and to love something that a.) I had no real understanding of in terms of the culture that it was emanating from and b.) to love something that my parents literally could not grasp. But I was hooked. I can’t remember what I ate for dinner last night but I could sing to you every single word of N.W.A’s “Fuck Tha Police” or [Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock's] “It Takes Two.” Go figure.
SC: Does that extend to pop and rock music as well? Did you do the whole lace gloves circa Madonna and flannel shirts in the ’90s circa Kurt?
GP: I was never super into ’80s or ’90s pop. Aside from hip-hop I loved, I was very into alternative stuff like New Order (which did become pretty mainstream) and The Cure and bands like Yaz and Book of Love. But when Nirvana came out, my mind was kind of blown. I remember sitting around a record player playing Nevermind for days in a row with my college friends really mesmerized by that record, as everybody was at the time. I couldn’t believe my ears.
SC: Speed round: Miles or Coltrane?
GP: Miles
SC: The Beatles or The Rolling Stones?
GP: Beatles
SC: Patsy Cline or Billie Holiday?
GP: Billie H
SC: Biggie or PAC?
GP: Biggie by miles
SC:Michael or Prince?
GP: Prince!
SC: And finally, would you ever make a solo album?
GP: Would I ever make a solo album? Should I? Never say never.
17 comments:
why is he always with her?
Don't they both look like rehab rejects??
I believe he secretly has a crush on her. He would love to be with her, but he knows it most likely would never happen. But who knows what the future may bring.
Jayz trying to get into the WHITE INNER CIRCLE, all he wants from blacks is for them to buy and support everything him and Beyonce does.
Oprah is Jayz's mentor and she taught him that blacks are good for only 1 thing, their money $$$, but for him to focus on being in white circles, that is why he took that picture with the billionaire BUFFET, and he was trying to close that BB Labron deal with that other Billionaire, but he failed.
Jayz has made himself the biggest and best rapper ever, which he is NOT.
HEY JAYZ WHITE PEOPLE ARE ONLY GOING TO LET YOU GET SO FAR, ESPECIALLY FOR A EX DRUG DEALER.
Gwyneth Paltrow is a JOKE!!
This bitch is a lunatic, Prince over Michael Jackson, thats only because either thats Jayz's choice or because Michael is dead, FAKE BITCH.
Biggie over Tupac, bitch please, SHE IS SAYING WHAT JAYZ WANTS HER TO SAY.
Years ago this bitch HATED RAPPERS, now she's in the company with the likes of a rapper ex drug dealer.
Well, i like both of thenm! They are both talented people with great taste and seem to be enjoying life.
GOOP is pretentious but so what? She comes from money, I don't expect her to be meek. Jay Z has risen to incredible heights and he is a hard worker.
You people need to get off your asses and create something or work harder to be the best at whatever it is you do. Blacks are so pathetic and jealous when it comes to successful black people crossing over. Newsflash, most black people spend their money like water and have no concept of saving or growing their income streams. Maybe you should learn from Gwyneth and Jay, they both have four or five jobs going on at once. You coons complain about pulling an 8 hour day at Fed Ex. SMH.
Thats a ugly white woman.
but when white people complain that's when it counts. *eyeroll at the Uncle Tom* young black men and women, pick up your local newspaper, magazine, brochures-----that's where you'll find real black people who are successful professionals that you should look up to! not all these fake celebrity whores. you don't see Denzel Washington whoring himself out for the almight dollar, and that man is straight RESPECTED! around the world and within Hollywood.
Doesn't Jay look like he's about the start singing Mr. Bojangles?
9:02 LOL!!
chris martin and gwenyth are noooooo longer together! it will soon be out! trust! oh and her and jay be effin on the low!
He can sell drugs to his community and then lo and behold, he is a darling of the white community.
Project chicken bone throwin' out the window piece of shit. White azz lickin' coon. And i can't stand his flow, 40 yr old man soundin' like a 17 yr old who still has wet dreams.
Thats a ugly white woman!
@9:09
Yes she is not the business. IDGI. People make a fuss over Fishsticks when she's no great beauty, mediocre actress, awkward body, uppity & I sense she's a fraud. Oh & she can't sing. Organic foods & such. Bitch please. She tries way too hard to convince the world that her life's perfect. And how insecure is Jay? A disclaimer correcting the "geese" phrase? Why does he care what people think of him so much? No one's perfect homie. Lastly, Biggie better than Pac? FOH! Bitch you're really pushing it trying to be "down". Let's not get besides ourselves.
Gwyneth, Oprah, and Gayle no doubt heard about Jayz's donkey dick, thats why the fasination.
My.Gawd.That.Is.One.FUGLY.Black.Man
Thats a ugly white woman
So this is why Beyonce has morphed herself into looking like Gwyneth? Now I get it. Wow!
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