Jay-Z may have a fabulous life, but he insists he's out to impress no one.
"I've never looked at myself and said that I need to be a certain way to be around a certain sort of people," he says in the new issue of Best Life, on newsstands March 10. "I've always wanted to stay true to myself, and I've managed to do that. People have to accept that. I collect art and I drink wine…things that I like that I had never been exposed to. But I never said, 'I'm going to buy art to impress this crowd.' That's just ridiculous to me. I don't live my life like that, because how could you be happy with yourself?"
Even with all of Jay-Z's success, he still comes face-to-face with racism and stereotypes. "It's hilarious a lot of times," he says. "You have a conversation with someone, and he's like, 'You speak so well!' I'm like, 'What do you mean? Do you understand that's an insult?' "
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