Pharrell Williams: hit No. 2 on the Billboard 200
"I wasn't happy about the T.I. situation," Pharrell said, according to a recent GQ feature, via Hot New Hip Hop. "They did that record hoping for radio play, and they got nothing out of it ... Great, you got your No. 1 hip-hop song. But what does that do for your sales?"
Pharrell felt the album was trying to fit in too much.
"You want to be camouflage?" he asked. "Go ahead. Blend in. But we want to be that twinkle in the sky. We want to be that twinkle in the sky. And you might not be able to see that star now. But it's daytime. Wait till it gets dark."
The 41-year-old, who has delivered international smash hits "Get Lucky" with Daft Punk and "Happy" over the past couple years, also has a trippy side he likes to show off.
"It's all math," he told GQ. "You have a certain number of bones in your body. You have seven holes in your face. There are nine planets, a sun, trillions and trillions of galaxies. Everything quantifies to numbers."
There was also this quote: "The more suspended experiences you have, the more you're not bound by physical time."
When asked why he works with female artists so often, he cut the crap and dropped some knowledge.
"Women have a way of expressing themselves that I can relate to more honestly," he says. "I am a sensitive person, so I want to be with sensitive people."
Check out his New Year's Eve performance with Gwen Stefani:
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