JAY-Z COVERS GQ MAGAZINE TALKS ‘THE THRONE’

Jay-Z is just on another platform when it comes to rappers as he portrays this seated on top of the luggage. View his GQ cover after the jump and his quote about ‘Watch The Throne’

“The record is about having a good time in fancy hotels, because they made it while having a good time in fancy hotels, at the Mercer and the Tribeca Grand in New York, the five-star Le Meurice in Paris. They laughed a lot, Jay says, drank a lot of wine. If they argued, it was over music. “Only about what’s best for the song,” Jay says, “which is great.” When they first started working together, a decade or so ago, Kanye would just slip Jay beats without asking to be consulted on how they got used; during the Throne sessions, he was a perfectionist, obsessing over microdetails. “I think he just can’t help himself,” Jay says. “He puts so much into everything, and he’s like, ‘You have to treat it like I treat it.’ It drives you crazy sometimes—like when you’ve put seventy-five versions of a snare on one song and he’s like, ‘No!’ and you’re like, ‘Come on, man.’ ”

Source: GQ