Pharrell is “embarrassed” by some of his past problematic lyrics: “I would never write or sing [them] today”

ABC/Craig SjodinAs a 13-time Grammy winner, Pharrell Williams has certainly been honored for his songwriting, but looking back now, he admits that he’s written and recorded lyrics that are, well, problematic.

“Some of my old songs, I would never write or sing today,” Williams tells GQ in a cover story for its November issue, called “The New Masculinity.” 

“I get embarrassed by some of that stuff. It just took a lot of time and growth to get to that place,” he adds. “I was also born in a different era, where the rules of the matrix at that time allowed a lot of things that would never