heavy symbolism

My interview w/Pharrell is in the new Spin (dec. 2005, the one w/fallout boy on the cover.) Edited a bit for space; here’s a preview directly from the transcripts:
JS: What about your unconventional ass metaphors? Like “your ass is a spaceship I wanna ride,” and in the single “Angel,” you sing “your ass is like a loaf of bread I want to slice.” Do you have any other next-level ass sexaphors you’re holding back?
PW: Wow, that’s a great title, next-level ass sexaphors. Well, let me be clear. When I said, “your ass is a spaceship I wanna ride,” right?
JS: Right.
PW: I was just trying to be cool. And in this particular record I said your ass is like a loaf of bread I wanna slice, it’s like yeah, she’s got a fat ass right? But there’s so much more if you cut into it—and not into her ass, but when you cut into the actual, what it represents.
HERE ARE THE BEST PARTS OF THE INTERVIEW (that were on the record) THAT DIDN’T MAKE THE FINAL PIECE>
JS: There are rumors you are getting married to a supermodel named Vashty. Are you?
PW: No. I’m a private dude with the girl I love. I’m private. I’m just a regular dude.
JS: Are you the regular dude that’s going to give us the Clipse’s next official album one day?
PW: Yeah, absolutely. I wish it was something that I could talk about but it’s not me, believe it. They’re in a contract that they don’t necessarily want to be in. I wish there was something I could do about it but unfortunately I can’t. All I can do is wait.
JS: How often does Skateboard P skate?
PW: Last time I skated, I got a ramp at my house in Virginia and Terry that’s on my skate team. My homeboy Terry Kennedy is the lead guy on the skate team and his boy Black Mike skated as well and he was killed when they went back to the Westside or whatever. He’s a good kid, rest in peace. But terry, but Jimmy, jimmy’s from philly, there’s my brother kato, Kevin and there’s little Jacob he’s like 15 years old. I still skate when I get a chance, but I haven’t had a chance to. I’ve been in the studio, in the studio, in the studio. I haven’t been able to do shit, but I can’t complain cause I got some monstrous shit about to hit the block. Monstrous. Not just my record, I got a bunch a shit.
JS: What is that shit, besides dropping more ice creams?
PW: Which by the way, I feel so blessed. I have to say that. You always have to take a thank you commercial break. It’s absolutely necessary.
JS: I got you.
[silence]
JS: So are we pausing with a moment of silence for the commercial?
PW: [hahahah] No, not necessarily. I gotta say. That new Twista record is something serious. Um. Why am I drawing a blank? I can only say the word Jennifer. I can’t answer any more questions beyond that. I can’t say too much more beyond that.
JS: Uh…
PW: But wait til you hear this shit. Whoa. We going back in with Snoop, we goin’ back in with Slim. I got a bunch of stuff comin’ in. I can’t think all the way through.
JS: If you could be doing anything else, what would you be doing?
PW: I’d probably be an art teacher or something.
JS: Art or art history?
PW: History? I love history itself.
JS: Really? What’s your favorite part of history?
PW: Egyptology.
JS: Yeah?
PW: Yeah, I love that shit. Forget about it.
JS: You mean Egyptian mythology.
PW: Yeah, like Osiris, the Sun God Ra.
JS: I got the udjat tattoo’d on me. The eye of Horus.
PW: Yeah? Really?
JS: Yeah.. Egyptian mythology is my shit, too. What do you like about it?
PW: I’m fascinated by it, it’s like the cornerstone for the Masonic practices. All that stuff fascinates me because it’s instilled deeply into our government and our culture. I’m not a conspiracy theorist but there’s a lot of history there with Masonry and that kind of stuff. I just like to study different things. I might be getting a little too deep into some of the shit that I’m reading it into but I like a lot of that stuff. Like the Da Vinci Code is a great book. I like that kind of stuff. The history of the sciences, the people who put our country together and the doctrines and the basis and the premise and their vision and the oaths they take, the secret societies, I’ve always been fascinated by that stuff. But I’m an A&E, Discovery Channel, History Channel mobster. If I’m not watching like, the animals and shit, if I’m not watching baboons fighting and shit, chimpanzee behavior in comparison to humans, I love a lot of those discovery shows and history shows and ancient mysteries of the bible. And when I’m not watching that? It’s definitely SpongeBob, South Park, you know what I’m saying? With a fresh bowl of Cinnamon Toast or FruitLoops or some shit.
JS: Other than dropping the heaviest shit on the world, how do you think people will respond to your solo record?
PW: These are my words. Take them and let them do what they’re gonna do to you. My album was meant to evoke conversation and debate. And to definitely shine out the human light. All the readers of the lyrics and the listeners and all the people that just feel music within, it’s meant to promote individuality, you can do whatever you wanna do. It’s not impossible.

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10 Responses to heavy symbolism

  1. dee says:

    cover huh? i’m proud :-)

  2. inckid says:

    I can only try to imagine how he actually says (body language and all) the words you have transcribed here. What a man of the moment.
    IK

  3. Katie says:

    I love you!

  4. pharrels a burd says:

    LUV YE PHARRELL BABY UMM YES YOU SO SEXY LUVIN YE SONGS XXXXXX

  5. veronica colette white says:

    i am facsinated by u n every thing bout u.. n i luv that u r so u n weird n a good way like unipue..your # 1 fan veronica

  6. alyce says:

    hi…i love you!!!

  7. furrell says:

    ma names jus a coincidence…yo music is godly,im writin ma own shit…but it’ll probably take me nowhere,peace,luv.dis girl got yo back

  8. janelle says:

    pharrell iz sooooooooooo hotttttttttttttttttt

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