Pharrell shuts down talk over GIRL album cover; claims trying to be Jay-Z and Diddy made his music purposeless

Salute to my guy Pharrell! This cat has the biggest record out right now, "Happy" and seems like he has rejuvenated purpose for not only making music, but for living. Recently, "Black Twitter" was in an uproar because of the lack of Black women on Pharrell's album cover. Well, not only is there a Black woman on the cover, she is a girl he used to date in the early 2000s. Pharrell also recently spoke with GQ magazine about how trying to follow the paths of Jay-Z and Diddy caused his spirit to sink. Hip Hop Wired reports:

P called into Power 105.1's The Breakfast Club this morning (Feb. 27) to kill the noise surrounding the album artwork, and it turns out that there is a black woman among the three beauties.

"What really disappointed me is they jumped the gun, because the one I'm standing closest to is black," he said. "She's a black girl from Wisconsin that I used to date over ten years ago. Maybe twelve years ago. That just must suck man for people to look at something and to assume they know what's going on."

After throwing in a quick plug for the album, he flipped the perspective. Instead of focussing on the Twitter fire ignited by journalist Dream Hampton, and others expressing their sheer disappointment at the artwork, he pointed out how the woman in the picture feels.

"Man, it must suck to be that black woman that's on my cover right now because she's black. When they find out that she is black, then what? Then we're arguing amongst ourselves within color. Then the argument's going to be she's not brown enough."

He also had a few questions, "Then my question to you is, are y'all asking me do I have an Indian person on the cover? Why aren't you asking about a Pakistani person? A Middle Eastern person on the cover?"

And Pharrell's recent interview with GQ:

“I wrote those songs out of ego. Talking about the money I was making and the by-products of living that lifestyle. What was good about that? What'd you get out of it? There was no purpose. I was so under the wrong impression at that time.”

“The money was too loud. The success was too much. The girls were too beautiful. The jewelry was too shiny. The cars were too fast. The houses were too big. It's like not knowing how to swim and being thrown in the ocean for the first time. Everything is just too crazy. You're like, flailing and kicking and whatever, and you know what happens, don't you? You sink. My spirit sank. I just felt like, ‘F-ck, what am I doing?' ”

“That was just bragging. I wanted to be like Jay. I wanted to be like Puff. Those are their paths. I got my own path. But I didn't know what my path was. I knew that I was meant to do something different. I knew that I needed to inject purpose in my music.”

The feature story also has Pharrell explaining his new album's title ("I instantly knew that the name of the album was called G I R L, and the reason why is because women and girls, for the most part, have just been so loyal to me and supported me," he said), and more.