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Tuesday, March 29, 2011

I Hate You! Paris Hilton Interrogates Lil' Wayne for Interview Magazine, Asks About His Dreams

Posted by Raquel Nasser on Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 1:33 PM

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In the April Fools issue of Interview magazine, whose glossy pages are catching the light on newsstands somewhere near you, you can find a curious dredging of Lil' Wayne's brain, care of Paris Hilton (with lucky sap Dimitri Ehrlich acting as moderator—something unspeakably perverse wishes I could have taken his place).

I'm not sure exactly why I'm saying this to you, but it's worth a read. (You can find a hearty chunk of an excerpt if you click there). Yes, Hilton's questions are mostly shit and yes, Wayne's answers are certainly typical (although—plot twist!—I didn't expect him to say he kept sharks as pets).

However, there are some finer moments worth recognizing. For instance, what's not to appreciate about Wayne's—no Lil' necessary when we're talking business—metaphor regarding his extracurricular music-listening (which doesn't even exist!)

WAYNE: Honestly, I don't listen to nobody else's music but my own. It's kind of like sports to me. You don't see Kobe Bryant at a LeBron James game-he just works on his own game. And that's what I do. I only listen to me, so I can criticize and analyze and all those things.

Another notable: when Hilton and Wayne commiserate about their various stints in solitary confinement—Wayne for possession of an illegal iPod (presumably full of his own music), and Hilton for safety precautions; they didn't want her organizing the other prisoners for another run of My New BFF. Jail is hard enough.

HILTON: How happy are you to have your freedom now?

WAYNE: Words cannot explain.

HILTON: Yeah, I know how you feel. [laughs] It's the best feeling in the world when you come out.

The best/worst part? When Hilton takes Wayne's hand and drags him through a trash alley of interrogations—"What's your sign?" "What do you dream about?" "Do you have Twitter?", thus prompting Ehrlich to cut in and ask the two about their future goals.

HILTON: Me? I'd really love to finish my album, because I've been working on it for so long, but I've had so many other projects that it's hard to focus on one thing. I'd also love to just continue doing my businesses, and be more confrontational with people, because I let a lot of people get away with stuff because I don't say anything. So, personally, I wish that I would be stronger with people.

EHRLICH: Wayne, what about you?

WAYNE: I want to bank a cool $50 million at least. At the end of this year, I want to be able to say that I banked $50 million. Not generated $50 million, but actually banked $50 million.

How truly enlightening. What are your goals for the near future, Ends Hitsers?

And on a related note, can anyone point to more entertaining celebrity interview flops? Or, better yet, any instance where this relatively banal scenario—famous person interviews other famous person, finds common ground, plans future collaboration!—has actually proved thought-provoking? I can only think of one off-hand, which is this fantastic q&a session Ed Norton conducted with Bruce Sprinsteen.

 

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