Rapper Jay-Z sat down with GQ recently to talk about a broad number of topics, both business and personal.
For 115 years we have delivered award winning racial justice journalism —last week in which he touched on a number of subjects ranging from his work ethic, artistic process, his wife Beyonce and daughter Blue Ivy, past hardships, and his opinions on the beef between Kendrick Lamar and Drake.
During the interview, Jay and the interviewer, Frazier Tharpe, discussed significant points in his career and how they influenced him. Occasionally, when Jay would answer a question, Tharpe would respond back with a lyric to one of his songs.of life in those 26 years. Marcy to Trenton, New Jersey, to Cambridge, Maryland, to Newport News, Virginia. I met all sorts of people, been in all sorts of situations, and I came out without a scratch. Never been to jail,” said Jay., Jay-Z talks about how he has been doing more in terms of business as he now invests in or has ownership in multiple companies. He also addresses the criticisms that have been tossed his way over it. “I have to deal with the reality of the world, and I’m going to navigate this world not only for me but for a bunch of people that’s been disenfranchised by a system that doesn’t play fair for us,” said Jay-Z. “In order for us to progress forward, we have to deal with the world the way it is. Sometimes that means going out and starting your own company. Sometimes that means partnering with established companies because that’s the world that we live in. nowhere you’re going to go that Black people control distribution and control media. At some point you’re going to have to partner with somebody.”Jay also addressed the civil lawsuit that came against him in 2024 when an anonymous woman claimed she was sexually assaulted by him. The accuser voluntarily dismissed the suit only a couple months after it was filed. He talked about the toll this period of time had on him. “That whole , that sh*t took a lot out of me. I was angry. I haven’t been that angry in a long time, uncontrollable anger. You don’t put that on someone — that’s a thing that you better be super sure. It used to be like that. You had to be super sure before you put those kind of things on a person. Especially a person like me. Even when we were doing the worst things, we had those kind of rules. There was a line:You hear those sayings, but those are the things that I took from the street. We lived and died by that,” said Jay. His sentiment now is more about getting back on the field and playing the game. “This is the first thing I’m doing, actually. It was just like, alright man, we played enough defense. 2026 is all offense,” he said. The rap beef between Kendrick Lamar and Drake in 2024 also weighed heavy on Jay’s heart. He wishes things didn’t pan out the way it did. “We love the excitement and I love the sparring, but in this day and age there’s so much negative stuff that comes with it that you almost wish it didn’t happen. Now, people that like Kendrick hate Drake, no matter what he makes. It’s like an attack on his character. I don’t know if I love that. I don’t know if it’s helpful to our growth where the fallout lands, especially on social media. It’s too far. It’s bringing people’s kids in it. I don’t like that.” “I sound like the old guy wagging his finger, but I think we can achieve the same thing, as far as sparring with music, with collaborations more so than breaking the whole thing apart. It could stand it before because there was no social media. You had the battle and it was fun and then you moved on. Right now, I don’t know if it could stand it with the technology that we have.”Jay also talked about his daughter Blue Ivy and feeling proud seeing her perform on stage during Beyonce’s Cowboy Carter Tour. “On the first tour there was a lot of conversation around her first performance, and she worked really hard to get to that point, but she still wasn’t going for it,” he said. “She still was going through the motions. And then she just started fighting back. I saw her fight maybe for the first time in her life — like, not everything is just given to her and everything is easy.” In celebration of the 30th anniversary of the classic “Reasonable Doubt” and the 25th anniversary of another classic, “The Blueprint,” Jay is set to perform at Yankee Stadium July 10-12. The first two dates sold out almost instantly and the third was added to accommodate demand.Since 1909, bringing you the news that mainstream media just doesn't.Adrienne Adams joins a two-woman ticket poised to lead New York
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