Bust It Creole’s purse watcher looks like he is wearing grey contacts from the beauty supply store but I will blame it on the ph-ph-photo shop. This cover almost looks like one of those joints you get done at the flea market with the small byline and all but whatever. Sell that ass, Mr. Carter.

As told to Best Life: “I’m a mirror…If you’re cool with me, I’m cool with you, and the exchange starts. What you see is what you reflect. If you don’t like what you see, then you’ve done something. If I’m standoffish, that’s because you are.”

Jay-Z also talks about what was on his mind when he made Reasonable Doubt in 1996: “I made that album to impress my friends, so they would say, “Oh wow, look what you did!’ It was my first album on the label that we owned. I was like ‘Okay, what happens now?”