Faced with the controversy, Jay-Z had no choice but to explain himself. The rapper was invited by the prestigious Columbia University to chat with students on Tuesday, and he couldn't avoid the angry question: why did he decide, with his wife Beyoncé, to stay seated during the National Anthem at the Super Bowl? The artist first explained that nothing was premeditated and that if it was, everyone would have noticed by observing his daughter Blue.
"No, not at all, sorry, but it was not premeditated at all. We didn't want to put (our daughter) Blue in this situation at all. If you knew Blue ... If we told her we were going to do something like this, you would have seen her tap our shoulders hundreds of times. He's the kind of child, when you're in a car, who asks as soon as you close the door "Are we there soon, Dad?" So she would have asked us all the time "What time do we do it? Are we going, are we doing it?" ", He confided, as Entertainment Tonight relayed.
In artist mode
As for the theories that this choice would have been a way to support Colin Kaepernick, the player who says he has been blacklisted by the NFL since he decided to kneel during the national anthem before the games of his team of 49ers? Jay-Z is formal: it has nothing to do with it. He was simply focused on the show, as the new NFL entertainment manager.
“We arrived and we immediately entered artist mode. So I watch the show and I say to myself, "Is the microphone open? Is it not set too low? Have we put too many speakers on the floor?" During the whole show I am there, seated, and I talk about the performance. And just after that, Demi (Lovato) arrives, and we talk, we say that she is beautiful and that she sings well, that it is hard what she has just gone through and that we are proud that she be on stage, ”added Jay-Z.
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