Oh’ How Times Change… Jay Would Pick Bleek Over Beyonce

While reading the articles in an old issue of Playboy from 03′ I came across a very interesting article with Jay-Z talking about his relationship with Beyonce’. He even goes as far to say he would pick Memphis Bleek over Beyonce’.

PLAYBOY: Something else that’s new on Blueprint 2—your mistrust of women has softened.
JAY-Z: Right. People already know my paranoia about women. Before I was a rapper who didn’t know who his friends were, I was a hustler who didn’t know who his friends were. When it’s a song about women, it’s usually the single, which makes people say, This guy is dissing women on every fucking record. [Laughs] Big Pimpin’, Can I Get a Fuck You, those are the hits. But the slower ones are usually more meaningful and serious.

PLAYBOY: Do you think women are less trustworthy than men?
JAY-Z: No. But guys don’t want to date me for my money, so I don’t have to worry about them.

PLAYBOY: If you’re going to have kids, you have to get over that paranoia.
JAY-Z: Yeah. I’m learning, I’m growing. I’m growing slow.

PLAYBOY: You tell a story in This Can’t Be Life, that you were almost a father. True story?
JAY-Z: Yeah. The girl I was seeing about four years ago had a miscarriage. But I wasn’t sad. I didn’t even grieve. Maybe it happened because I wasn’t ready to be a dad.

PLAYBOY: And now you’re dating a woman who doesn’t need your money, either.
JAY-Z: Is that right?

PLAYBOY: How did you meet Beyoncé Knowles?
JAY-Z: I used to see her all the time. [Quickly] We’re not engaged or anything, by the way. We’re just cool. We’re just friends. We don’t really, ah, know each other like that yet.

PLAYBOY: Just friends, like the way you and Memphis Bleek are just friends?
JAY-Z: No, Beyoncé’s a woman. A very attractive woman. But we’re friends for now. Me and Bleek, we’re tighter. I took him from the projects—I’m from 5C, he’s from 3C. He’s been with me since 1994. Between Beyoncé and him? Beyonce’s got to go [Laughs].

PLAYBOY: Do you wish that she was your girlfriend?
JAY-Z: She’s beautiful. Who wouldn’t wish she was their girlfriend? Maybe one day [smiles].

PLAYBOY: We’re not quite convinced. We know you like to keep parts of your life private. If she were your girlfriend, would you tell us?
JAY-Z: Probably not.

PLAYBOY: Well, you’re pretty cool—hard to read at times.
JAY-Z: Thank you, brother. [Raises a glass of Cristal] Toast to that.

PLAYBOY: Does that create problems in relationships?
JAY-Z: Yeah, it could. I’m not the most I-love-you guy. That’s one of my problems. “What, you want me to tell you? Those are just words—everyone is going to tell you. Look at what I do.” I have to change that.

PLAYBOY: How are you going to change that?
JAY-Z: I know it. That’s half the battle.

PLAYBOY: But only half.
JAY-Z: But half! Shit. It was zero before—be happy.

PLAYBOY: If we were going to play amateur psychiatrist—
JAY-Z: That’s what this feels like.

PLAYBOY: Here’s what we would say: As a kid, you loved your dad. But he left and you felt rejected, and that hurt so much, you don’t want to love anyone else the same way.
JAY-Z: Definitely. That could be 100 percent true. There’s no worse pain. That’s why a lot of things didn’t affect me growing up.

Now if you take that with what Beyonce just said… I smell a baby on the way sometime real soon.