Eve is on the promo trailer for the release of her new memoir ‘Who’s That Girl?‘ and the Hip-Hop titan got fans talking this week while recounting a long-ago conversation with Jay-Z from early on in her career.
In an interview with the London newspaper ‘The Times,’ the ‘Scorpion’ rapper recalled that on the very day her 1999 debut album ‘Let There Be Eve…Ruff Ryders’ First Lady’ dropped, she received a congratulatory phone call from Hov.
However, she told the paper, the message came with a warning: she remembers JAY saying that she shouldn’t get her hopes up because female emcees at the time “don’t really do that well.”
The project sold 213,000 copies in its first week and eventually went double platinum.
Eve also revealed that a music executive once told her to stop making music and focus on getting pregnant. Other male execs were openly rude to her. “The audacity that these men had,” she said.
“Now I have age and experience on my side, nobody’s coming at me like that.” she revealed about now being a vet in the game.
The comments regarding the call with Jay went viral and had social media buzzing. Now, Eve is clarifying that Jay didn’t mean it in a malicious way, but as a reality check that also served as motivation for her.
During a new interview with ‘The Breakfast Club‘ on Tuesday (Sep. 17) she clarified her statements.
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Elsewhere in her interview, she discussed her battle with alcoholism and overcoming it, her Ruff Ryder’s family, the death of DMX, and their planned reunion tour before his death.
She also discussed the success of her sitcom ‘EVE,’ and her regrets about not being professional during that time, her upcoming scholar residency at NYU, and more.
Get into the full interview below.
