Yesterday, Rolling Stone unveiled its cover work for their new issue with Jay-Z aka “King Of America.” The Daily News got their hands on an excerpt about Hova swaying King James’ decision to play in Dirty Jerz and today I got my greasy paws on the entire issue.

Below, you can read Jay’s thoughts on why he has yet to release his oh so delayed autobiography which was co-written by former Source Magazine editor, Dream Hampton.

Sidebar: THIS should’ve been the cover right, G?

Sidebar X2: Jay-Z Calls Beyonce “A Magnificent A&R” over HERE!

“It’s too much,” he tells me. “For the book, I was interviewed; people close to me were interviewed. So I was learning a lot of things I didn’t know as as a child. And it was too…..” He trails off, and then continues, “It’s not anything I haven’t said I said in the past, in songs. It’s just more detailed. A song is three minutes long. A book doesn’t have to rhyme, and it has no time limit, so you can say exactly how everything went.” He says the biggest revelation he had reading his own autobiography came in the parts about his father, who abandoned the family when Jay was 11. “It was still wrong, at the end of the day that he left,” Jay says, “but he did stick around at a time where it wasn’t cool or popular-he married my mom at a time when guys were just leaving, and you’d never even meet your dad. So it made me ease up a little bit in how I felt about him.”

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