Here's A Full Breakdown Of Jay-Z's Viral Candid Interview Where He Talked About Beyoncé, His Sexual Assault Allegations, Drake VS Kendrick, And More

Here are the biggest takeaways from their chat.

1. The speech astir billionaires.

"There’s inactive the commonplace nationalist cognition that each billionaires are bad," stated Frazier. "What’s the hostility successful that?" To which Jay-Z responded, "I got to springiness you the honorable answer: There’s nary tension. I don’t springiness a fuck what you say. [Laughs.] You tin judge what you privation to believe. And radical behave the mode they privation to behave—it’s not a dollar amount. It’s astir similar a cop-out. You get to demonize this radical of folks without fixing the existent strategy that exists, that’s successful play. [Money] whitethorn heighten it oregon whitethorn origin you to enactment successful a way. But you was going to enactment similar that anyway."

"I person to woody with the world of the world, and I’m going to navigate this satellite not lone for maine but for a clump of radical that’s been disenfranchised by a strategy that doesn’t play just for us," Jay continued. "In bid for america to advancement forward, we person to woody with the satellite the mode it is. Sometimes that means going retired and starting your ain company. Sometimes that means partnering with established companies due to the fact that that’s the satellite that we unrecorded in. [There’s] obscurity you’re going to spell that Black radical power organisation and power media. At immoderate constituent you’re going to person to spouse with somebody."

Jay erstwhile rapped, "That guilt travel ain't gon' work, don't enactment your luggage connected we/You ain't support the aforesaid vigor for the du Pont's and Carnegie's." Of course, wealthiness disparity and the wide rising outgo of surviving implicit the past decennary person opened up the speech successful pop culture of hating billionaires. However, arsenic Jay-Z alluded to successful this rap, that mindset is soaked successful achromatic privilege.

2. The caller intersexual battle allegations.

In 2025, a civil case accusing Sean "Diddy" Combs and Jay-Z of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old miss was dismissed. The suit was filled with inconsistencies, and Jay maintained his innocence passim the full ordeal. Speaking with Frazier, Jay explained wherefore helium didn't settee the quality retired of tribunal to debar nationalist exposure, and wherefore this circumstantial lawsuit angered him.

"That full [lawsuit thing], that crap took a batch retired of me," Jay stated. "I was angry. I haven’t been that aggravated successful a agelong time, uncontrollable anger. You don’t enactment that connected someone—that’s a happening that you amended beryllium ace sure. It utilized to beryllium similar that. You had to beryllium ace definite earlier you enactment those benignant of things connected a person. Especially a idiosyncratic similar me. Even erstwhile we were doing the worst things, we had those benignant of rules. There was a line: no women, nary kids. You perceive those sayings, but those are the things that I took from the street. We lived and died by that. So it’s strict for me, similar it meant a batch to me.I took that truly hard. I knew that we were going to locomotion done that because, archetypal of all, it’s not true. And the truth, astatine the extremity of the day, inactive reigns supreme."

On wherefore helium didn't settee retired of court, Jay said, "I can’t instrumentality a settlement—it ain’t successful my DNA. First of all, archetypal I had to archer my wife. Let’s backmost up. I cognize the value that this is going to bring connected our family. I can’t bash it. I would die. If I settled—make that happening spell away. And for me, it would’ve been cheaper? Yes. Cheaper, quicker, determination connected with your life. I knew what was coming. I wasn’t naive."

3. On the Drake and Kendrick beef

It seemed similar the full satellite stopped what they were doing and tuned into the Drake and Kendrick beef successful 2024, which spanned respective songs. Frazier asked Jay, "As a spectator, what did you deliberation of the 2024 back-and-forth betwixt Kendrick and Drake?" The mogul's reply was shocking, particularly since helium has been a portion of respective historical and high-profile rap beefs. "We emotion the excitement and I emotion the sparring, but successful this time and property there’s truthful overmuch antagonistic worldly that comes with it that you astir privation it didn’t happen," helium stated.

"Now, radical that similar Kendrick hatred Drake, nary substance what helium makes," Jay continued. "It’s similar an onslaught connected his character. I don’t cognize if I emotion that. I don’t cognize if it’s adjuvant to our maturation wherever the fallout lands, particularly connected societal media. It’s excessively far. It’s bringing people’s kids successful it. I don’t similar that. I dependable similar the aged feline wagging his finger, but I deliberation we tin execute the aforesaid thing, arsenic acold arsenic sparring with music, with collaborations much truthful than breaking the full happening apart. It could basal it earlier due to the fact that determination was nary societal media. You had the conflict and it was amusive and past you moved on. Right now, I don’t cognize if it could basal it with the exertion that we have."

"It takes up truthful overmuch oxygen," Jay stated astir beef successful modern times. "It’s similar trying to teardrop down people’s lives. I don’t cognize if it’s worthy it astatine this point. I emotion the thought that we got truthful overmuch euphony successful specified a abbreviated play of time. Just everything astir it was like, 'Man, this is taking america a mates steps back.' We’ve conscionable grown truthful overmuch that—I conjecture I’m going to accidental it—I don’t cognize if battling needs to beryllium portion of the civilization anymore... I hatred that I person this constituent of presumption connected it. I do. Because I cognize what it sounds like. It’s conscionable however I consciousness astir it."

The mogul besides added, “There is intelligibly an docket to soundlessness voices successful our community, a dense right-wing agenda. And the civilization is happily playing on successful the sanction of this insane thirst of Stan civilization to person thing connected the different side. We are successful a unusual time. I’m funny arsenic to however this plays out!”

4. On picking Super Bowl Halftime Show headliners

For those who whitethorn not know, Jay-Z is liable for picking the Super Bowl Halftime Show headliners. Frazier asked him, "What does it mean to you to beryllium astatine the helm of a taste lawsuit arsenic important arsenic the Super Bowl halftime show?"

"I deliberation everyone should acquisition euphony successful its totality," Jay responded. "And for a batch of years, it was lone 1 broadside of euphony that was being represented for immoderate reason. We got the accidental to make a much balanced thought of what fashionable euphony is today. I’m not going retired connected a limb. These are the astir celebrated radical successful the world. I didn’t prime the indie creator that I truly similar from Portland. [This was] the fig 1 streamed creator successful the world. 'I got an idea, let’s fto him [Bad Bunny] play.' [Laughs.] It’s Rihanna!

"For one, erstwhile has Jay-Z ever taken a genu to travel retired and archer america that we're past kneeling?" stated erstwhile NFL information Eric Reid. Reid famously took a genu close beside Kaepernick during the latter's societal justness run to bring consciousness to constabulary brutality and systemic racism. "Yes, he's done a batch of large work, a batch of large societal justness work. But for you to get paid to spell into an NFL property league and accidental that we're past kneeling? Again, asinine. Players Coalition 2.0, helium got paid to instrumentality the bullets he's taking present due to the fact that we're not having it."

5. On seemingly siding with Kendrick successful the beef aft picking him to header the Halftime Show

When Jay picked Kendrick Lamar to header the 2025 Super Bowl Halftime Show, galore fans took that to mean the mogul was picking a broadside successful the beef. "I chose the feline that was having a monster year. I deliberation it was the close choice," Jay told Frazier. "What bash I attraction astir them 2 guys battling? What’s that got to bash with me? Have astatine it. They resistance everybody successful it, similar everyone’s portion of this conspiracy to undermine Drake, I guess. But, it’s like, what the fuck? I’m fucking Jay-Z! [Laughs.] All owed respect to him. I’m fucking Hov. Respectfully. It doesn’t marque immoderate sense."

6. On fatherhood and Blu Ivy

Beyoncé and Jay person 3 children together: girl Blue Ivy Carter and twins Rumi and Sir Carter. When Frazier asked the rapper astir fatherhood, helium answered with pride. "It gives everything meaning, everything," helium said. "I’ll spell cross-country, bash what I person to do, and I’m backmost connected the level that night. I emotion taking them to school. I emotion picking them up. Everything means truthful overmuch more."

Jay besides shared what it's similar to ticker Blue grown into a young pistillate and her apperance during Beyonce's Cowboy Carter tour. "That was amazing, helium began. "On the archetypal circuit determination was a batch of speech astir her archetypal performance, and she worked truly hard to get to that point, but she inactive wasn’t going for it. She inactive was going done the motions. And past she conscionable started warring back. I saw her combat possibly for the archetypal clip successful her life—like, not everything is conscionable fixed to her and everything is easy. She fought for it. She’s astir connected each number. I had to instrumentality her disconnected some, like, 'Man, you can’t beryllium connected that signifier erstwhile she’s singing ‘Six-inch heels…’; are you crazy?'”

Also, Jay revealed that Blue has her ain peculiar philharmonic talent. "Blue is simply a brainsick pianist, but she won’t fto america get her a teacher," helium explained. "She doesn’t privation it to beryllium a job. But she has cleanable pitch. If she hears a song, she’ll beryllium similar 'Play it again' and past she’ll thatch herself. That’s conscionable talent, she doesn’t enactment astatine that. She worked astatine this, and it makes maine arrogant that she fought for thing that she truly wanted to do. I don’t deliberation we’re going to beryllium capable to get her disconnected that signifier now."

7. On 4:44, his astir caller album, wherever helium addresses cheating connected Beyonce.

4:44 came retired successful 2017 and is Jay-Z's past solo medium (he's done collab albums since then, specified arsenic EVERYTHING IS LOVE with Beyoncé and A Written Testimony with Jay Electronica).

Speaking connected however affectional and candid helium is connected 4:44, Jay said, "4:44 released a lot. I can’t truly adjacent perceive to 4:44. It’s the medium that I was ever acrophobic to make… conscionable axenic and vulnerable, the existent interior thoughts. Not similar Superman, this mythical figure. It was a batch of trauma [growing up], a batch of loss, a batch of seeing things that nine-year-olds shouldn’t beryllium seeing. We tuck it distant and we hide it, and past it shows up successful antithetic ways. You’re a batch younger than me, but you’ll spot it shows up aboriginal successful beingness successful antithetic ways, and you won’t cognize wherefore you’re acting retired successful definite ways. And it’s due to the fact that of those things that are buried deep, and immoderate triggers it tin origin immoderate benignant of effect successful your narration and the narration with your family. At immoderate constituent you got to fig retired however you’re going to navigate the world."

8. On inclusion for Black people

At 1 point, Frazier asks, "Do you consciousness similar you are starring a complaint for what the palmy Black antheral is allowed to do?" To which Jay responded, "I adjacent privation you to instrumentality that retired of your vocabulary... 'allowed.'" This was specified a almighty infinitesimal successful the interview.

"We’re not allowed to bash anything," Jay explained. "In bid for idiosyncratic to let you, they person to person authorization implicit you. No 1 has authorization implicit us. We beryllium similar everyone other here. No 1 tin let america to bash anything. But that connection comes from a existent space, and I privation to destruct each those benignant of words for us."

9. On his narration with J. Cole

Jay-Z famously signed J. Cole successful 2009, but their narration seemed rocky from the extracurricular looking successful since the beginning. Frazier asked Jay astir that full situation, to which the mogul stated, "The communicative is that we didn’t emotion Cole. No, we believed successful him capable to fto him find his journey. It took him a minute, but helium recovered his way."

Frazier alludes to this erstwhile helium asks Jay astir trying to brace Cole with Stargate astatine the time. Stargate is simply a accumulation duo from Norway that has crafted immoderate of the biggest hits successful hip-hop and R&B, specified arsenic "Rude Boy", "Only Girl (In the World)", "What's My Name?", "S&M", and "Diamonds" for Rihanna, "Closer," "So Sick", "Sexy Love" and "Miss Independent" for Ne-Yo, "Irreplaceable" for Beyoncé, and "Black and Yellow" for Wiz Khalifa.

"I was giving him a accidental to instrumentality his endowment and amusement it to the astir radical possible, but his way," says Jay of trying to get Cole to enactment with Stargate. "I didn’t say, 'Here’s this grounds from Stargate and you putting it out.' Like I forced Bleek to marque Memphis Bleek Is… Bleek is my small brother, helium has to perceive to me. But for J. Cole, helium has to find his ain absorption and I’m going to springiness him the tools. Stargate made humongous records with Rihanna, Wiz Khalifa... 'Black and Yellow.' Biggest songs successful the world. You don’t privation to spell beryllium with them? Fine."

As acold arsenic however helium feels astir Cole these days, Jay said, "I don’t person immoderate antagonistic feelings for him. I’m really ace arrogant of him and what he’s done."

10. On astir getting connected the latest Clipse album

"The streets truly wanted you connected that Clipse album," Frazier mused. He's not wrong. Clipse, the rap duo that divided up for 15 years, reunited successful 2025 and released 1 of the champion hip-hop albums of modern times. The group, comprised of Pusha T and Malice, went connected to triumph a Grammy this twelvemonth for "Chains & Whips," a azygous connected the medium that they primitively asked Jay-Z to diagnostic connected (Kendrick Lamar ended up grabbing a verse connected the opus instead).

"Yeah, I was close," said Jay astir featuring connected Clipse's album. "I deliberation the archetypal happening that I say, it has to beryllium said from me. [Pauses and reconsiders.] I don’t privation to beryllium truthful rigid with it, though. I’m going to support that open. I’m going to instrumentality that back. I don’t privation to beryllium truthful rigid. But astatine that moment, I was like, 'Yeah, I privation to bash something.' But successful bid for maine to determination forward, I got to get this crap out."

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