Jay-Z On The Cover Of Vanity Fair Magazine

Jay-Z graces the cover of Vanity Fair’s November issue. It will be hitting newsstands in New York and Los Angeles on October 8th.

In the November issue that although his wife, Beyoncé, says that their 18-month-old daughter, Blue Ivy, prefers Jay’s music to hers, he’s not so sure.

“That’s not true. She does like her mother’s music—she watches [Beyoncé’s concerts] on the computerevery 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 thisalbum 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 cliché. 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.” Jay-Z admits that, after all these years, he still loves to rap. “I know I said I wouldn’t be doing it when I was 30,” he tells Robinson, “so that’s how I know I love it. Thirty years old was my cutoff, but I’m still here, 43 years old.”