By: Eddy ‘Precise” Lamarre

JAŸ-Z sat down with Frazier Tharpe of GQ for an interview for their April cover story. The music mogul opened up about his career the past year and shared some thoughts on the culture. 

GQ’s April cover story is an exclusive interview: 30 years of Jay-Z, in his own words:

Jay-Z has kept his thoughts to himself for the better part of the past decade. It’s been nine years since his last solo album and nearly four years since his titanic verse on “God Did.” As Hov himself puts it: “It’s been a minute.”

Now 56 years old and thirty years on from his debut album, Reasonable Doubt, Shawn Carter is more influential than ever before. But the journey hasn’t been without controversy, criticism, and challenges. When the hip-hop mogul sat down with GQ’s Frazier Tharpe for a pair of rare on-camera interviews in January, he put everything on the table reflecting on music, business, family, and life over the past three decades as Jay-Z.

Check out the video and hear what he has to say about the culture, battling and his life.