Jay-Z recently had an interview with Gayle King, and he recalled how daughter Blue Ivy questioned his iconic status.
According to Vibe, he started the interview by recalling his meteoric rise from drug dealer to hip-hop sensation to business mogul.
Jay also discussed his fatherly duties and how Blue Ivy didn’t see him as a fly dad.
However, she finally changed her mind at 11 and nowadays even asks Jay for fashion tips.
“She used to be frontin’ on me a little bit. But [now] I catch her. I catch her in the corner, you know? Now she asks me, you know, if this is cool, if her sneakers [are cool]. There was a time where she was like, ‘Daaaaad.'” “‘I’m cool. I don’t know what you sayin. I’m cool! You got cool parents! At your house, your parents [are] cool.'”
Jay Z talking about Blue Ivy in a new interview with Gayle King ? pic.twitter.com/gMkCfkG31F
— RENAISSANCE Updates? (@B7Album) October 26, 2023
Jay Says he is proud of Blue and how far she has come
“With Blue, what makes me super like, proud and like, you know, I still get goosebumps seeing her walk on stage is ’cause Blue’s been born into a life she didn’t ask for,” he said.
“So, since she’s been born — she’s been in like, scrutiny and [the] public eye and everyone having an opinion. You know, even a little girl and how she keeps her hair.”
According to Page Six Jay-Z said that his eldest daughter was able to “reclaim her power” by performing “My Power” alongside Queen Bey, 42, on tour.
“And then watching her grow in it. You know, she came out — 80,000 people — she’s 11, so she’s nervous.”
After King chimed in, saying that Blue “didn’t look nervous,” the Grammy-winning rapper, 53, replied, “I know her, so I know how nervous she was. I know how frightened she was.”
Beyoncé gave birth to Blue in January 2012.
She and the Brooklyn emcee are also parents to twins Sir and Rumi, whom the pair welcomed in June 2017.
While the two youngest Carter kids have stayed out of the public eye, Blue has emerged as a star in her own right.
Aside from performing with her mom on a highly-grossing world tour, the preteen also made history as the youngest individually credited Grammy winner and the second youngest overall.
Jay-Z Also Discussed His 13 Albums
Despite his abundance of stellar albums, Jay-Z’s favorite is 1996’s Reasonable Doubt.
“I needed to grow into this album. And had I gone to a label, I don’t think I would’ve been able to fully explore what was really happening, because I had the freedom and the independence to really talk about the real stuff that was happening in the streets, and happening for me and my friends at the time.”
The billionaire also opened up about In My Lifetime, Vol. 1.
He mentioned how “Streets is Watching” was the last track he played for the late, great Notorious B.I.G.
He recalled the rapper asking him to “play it again” after every listen.
Jay-Z also considers Vol. 2… Hard Knock Life his most essential album.
“It was the album where I honed my craft as a songwriter, and that balance of creating exactly what I want and just as a writer, a technical song-maker, song-making skills with real stories is when it all came together on this album.”
Watch the entire interview below:
