Jay Z delivered some fiery shots on the mic during his headlining performance at Philadelphia’s annual Roots Picnic Festival.
Jay-Z took aim at a former collaborator Kanye West and other rappers Nicki Minaj And drake loudly during his set on Saturday, May 30 Rolling Stone.
“This lady is back at it / She sounds like she’s in love with him / Her Ken can’t even choose her kids / Enough of this,” he rapped, according to the outlet, an obvious reference to Minaj’s husband. Kenneth Pettywho was convicted of attempted rape in 1995 and is now a registered sex offender.
As for West, Jay-Z said, “Have you ever heard of Wonderkin? / My kids are some of them / Don’t you n*****s have any shame? / Are you trying to get under your skin? / I’m really gonna get under your skin.”
Jay-Z and Kanye West were once one of the most dynamic duos in hip-hop, collaborating behind the scenes and trading raps on singles and their 2011 collaborative album Watch the Throne. Since their heyday, however, the pair appear to have fallen out – and their steady stream of chart-topping collaborations has dried up. “He is my brother. (…)
The rapper’s freestyle comments appeared to be a response to West making offensive comments about Jay-Z’s children and wife in the past Beyonce.
Rolling Stone noted that despite their broken relationship, Jay-Z, 56, performed several tracks from over the years Watch the thronehis successful joint album with West from 2011.
Jay-Z also seemingly clapped back at Drake, who apparently referenced him on his latest album Iceman. On the song “Janice STFU,” Drake rapped: “The jig is up.” (Jay-Z has long been known by the nickname Jigga.)
“The template is up / We’re up 10 / Wrong table, champ / You gotta look up again / N*****s look up to Hov / I never looked up to them,” Jay-Z, real name Shawn Carter, fired off on Saturday. “These crackers got your publishing gangster / Talk to them tough / Don’t talk to me about success.”
Jay-Z recently commented on the infamous feud between Drake and Kendrick Lamarwho exchanged barbs on the tracks and on stage.
“Just everything around it was like, ‘Man, this takes us a few steps back,'” Jay-Z argued in a March interview with GQ. “We’ve just grown so much that I – I guess I’ll put it this way – I don’t know if fighting needs to be part of the culture anymore.”
“It’s going too far. It’s dragging people’s children into it. I don’t like that. I sound like the old man wagging his finger, but I think we can achieve the same thing as far as sparring with the music and collaborations rather than breaking the whole thing apart,” he added. “It used to take it because there was no social media. You had the struggle and it was fun and then you moved on. Right now I don’t know if it can take it with the technology we have.”
