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To kick off his interview with rap mogul Jay-Z, David Letterman held up his hand and asked the audience, “We possess here married people with families?”
He added, “Families, I think it’s safe to say, are pretty much trouble-free.”
That intro – on the fourth episode of Letterman’s free-ranging interview demonstrate “My Next Guest Needs No Introduction With David Letterman,” which dropped Friday on Netflix – foreshadowed the 50-minute conversation during which Jay-Z was strikingly candid about his control family. The rapper opened up about infidelity in his marriage to Beyoncé, his mother coming out as a lesbian and his absentee father.
– On his marriage to Beyoncé
Letterman saved the most hot-button question for the finish of the interview, pausing before saying, “You and I have one other thing in common, and I have to be cautious how I articulate this.”
“A few years ago, I got myself into some trouble, and the situation was my responsibility and my fault,” Letterman continued. “I did something that I had no business doing, and I regret it, and since then I have tried to acknowledge
Jay-Z's mum: ‘I was not free’ until I told son I was gay
"My son cried and said: 'It must have been horrible to live that way for so long.'"
"My animation wasn't horrible," she added.
"I chose to protect my family from ignorance. I was happy but I was not free."
Jay-Z has previously told how he cried with pleasure when his mother spoke to him about being a lesbian and of being in treasure with her female partner.
In the ballad on the rapper's latest 4:44 album he says: "Mama had four kids, but she's a lesbian/Had to fake so long that she's a thespian. Had to obscure in the closet, so she medicate/Society shame and the pain was too much to take."
He told US speak show host David Letterman: "For my mother to possess to live as someone that she wasn't and mask and like, safeguard her kids — and didn't crave to embarrass her kids... for all this time.
"For her to slouch in front of me and reveal me, 'I reflect I love someone'. I mean, I really cried," he told the David Letterman Netflix show.
Welp, I guess congratulations are in order to Jay-Z for backing his bro Obama up in the whole gay marriage furore. In an interview with CNN, he declared…
“What people do in their retain homes is their business. You choose to cherish whoever you love. It’s no different than discriminating against blacks. It’s discrimination plain and simple.”
…So Jigga joins the other bold little soldiers in rap today making totally non-committal declarations on their stance on homophobia. Courageous statements in the vein of “gay is just wonderful as long as it’s all kept indoors”. A$AP Rocky did something similar, coining it ‘sexual racism’, before going on to stress the importance of lesbianism…sexy, sexy lesbianism. Accurate say, it’s nothing to sniff at; what would once have been career suicide, is now just another funzie pre-requisite of the modern, well-rounded MC… tolerance is OK now guyz!
Things have changed fo sho. Imagine if Jigga had made this maverick proclamation during the Nas vs Gay-Z feud era, back when Nas was teasing him for his “dick suckin’ lips” or for heading up “Cock-a-Fella records”. And even if Jay did once nod to queer-bashing, Buju-burn-all-gays-Banton in the track
Jay-Z cried when mum told him she's gay: 'She was free'
The rapper says he'd known for a long time but only spoke to his mum about it eight months ago, when the album was being recorded.
"I knew. But this was the first time we had the conversation," Jay-Z said.
"And the first time I heard her say she loved her partner, prefer, 'I feel like I love somebody'. She said, 'I feel like'. She held that little bit back, still.
"She didn't say, 'I'm in love', she said, 'I experience like I love someone', and I just, I cried.
"I don't even trust in crying because you're happy. I don't even know what that is. What is that?"
The Jay-Z episode of My Next Guest Needs No Introduction starts streaming on Netflix on 6 April.
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Bobby Shmurda Suggests JAY-Z’s Roc Nation Is Behind Meek Mill & Diddy Homosexual Rumors
Bobby Shmurda has made the untamed claim that JAY-Z‘s Roc Nation is behind the rumors that Diddy and Meek Mill‘s affair goes beyond entity friends and collaborators.
Speaking on The Danza Project, Shmurda, who used to be managed by Roc Nation, suggested that the company planted the gay sex rumors following Meek’s departure from Roc Nation in 2022.
“I’ma tell you what’s going on with Meek. I left the team that Meek was on. Meek left that team. [If] you leave that team, they come for you,” he said.
“It’s like a connection with these labels. It’s like departing a girl with a lot of power. She’s gonna try to generate your life a living hell. She’s like, ‘We hold the internets, we’re gonna spread all the rumors about you. I’m gonna pay for 3,000 comments making jokes.”
Shmurda then claimed that he, too, has been targeted by such a smear campaign: “They tried to call me gay. I fuck the most bitches ever. Like, approach on, for real? I’m not even mad at them doing it; it be the n-ggas tha