Jay Z finally talks about Beyonce's fake pregnancy with Blue Ivy.

Jay Z covers the November 2013 issue of Vanity Fair. In addition to talking about  his former crack dealing past (“I know about budgets. I was a drug dealer”), and saying his wife is now gangsta, Jay Z also discussed the widespread rumors that his wife, Beyonce, faked her pregnancy with daughter Blue Ivy.

“I don’t even know how to answer that. It’s just so stupid. You know, I felt dismissive about it, but you’ve got to feel for her. I mean, we’ve got a really charmed life, so how can we complain? But when you think about it, we’re still human beings. . . . And even in hip-hop, all the blogs—they had a field day with it. I’m like, We come from you guys, we represent you guys. Why are you perpetuating this? Why are you adding fuel to this ridiculous rumor?”

Do you believe him? :-)

Excerpts from the interview:

•  On his well known crack dealing days in Brooklyn. 

I know about budgets. I was a drug dealer.  To be in a drug deal, you need to know what you can spend, what you need to re-up.

Not until later, when I realized the effects on the community. I started looking at the community on 
the whole, but in the beginning, no.

• On his daughter Blue Ivy being his biggest fan:  

“She does like her mother [Beyonce's] music – she watches [Beyonce's concerts] on the computer every night.

But my album came out and I don’t know if Blue ever heard any of my music prior to this album — she’s only 18 months old and I don’t play my music around the house.

But this album was new, so we played it. And 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 cliche. 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.”

• On wooing Beyonce before they began dating:

“Well, you know, 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. But I would have definitely had to be this cool.”

 

Jay Z told Vanity Fair Robinson that “of course” he pursued Beyoncé, and when asked if he hadn’t been Jay Z—say, he had been a gas-station attendant and she pulled up—would he have been able to date her, he responded:

If I’m as cool as I am, yes. But she’s a charming Southern girl, you know, she’s not impressed. . . . But I would have definitely had to be this cool.”

Jay confirmed that the line on his latest album, “She was a good girl ’til she knew me” is about Beyoncé, and when Robinson asks if she’s not a good girl anymore, Jay laughed, saying:

Nah. She’s gangsta now.”