Playboy After Hours
April, 2002
A Guy's Guide to What's Hip and What's HappeningWitness Jay-HovaJay-Z (31-year-old Shawn Carter) is a Martin Scorsese in a field that is crowded with Jerry Bruckheimers. What he lived through as a drug dealer in Brooklyn's Marcy Projects helped shape his peerless style and made him one of the best rappers today (listen to 2001's The Blueprint). We caught up with Jay-Hova, a.k.a. Jigga, for a quick Q. and A.The SportsCenter anchors use lines from your rhymes. Does that make you mad?Yeah. You're w...