JAY-Z Says Blue Ivy Didn’t Always Think He Was ‘Cool’ | Watch

*JAY-Z gave Gayle King a tour of his Book of Hov” exhibit at the Brooklyn Public Library, where they discussed whether his daughter Blue Ivy thinks he’s cool.

The exhibition explores the rapper’s body of work and efforts to help reform the criminal justice system, per a news release.  According to the library’s website: “The Book of HOV features never-before-seen images, art and ephemera from the artist’s archives, providing an unparalleled look at an extraordinary life and career. This free, immersive experience is one of the only installations of its scope to be housed in an active public space and features text, audio and curation by Roc Nation teams and partners.”

In his “CBS Mornings” interview with King, JAY-Z was asked about the most significant parts of his career.

“I think what matters most is today, is being a beacon and helping out my culture, people of color,” he said, Complex reports. 

 

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“I think I pull the most satisfaction from that. Like making music early was like my first love. I could sit there for hours—it consumed me. … That’s why my pace was so fast; I had so much material. And I think now, the idea of taking that platform and reproducing it for others or doing something like reform, I think I derive the most joy from that,” JAY-Z added. 

Elsewhere in the conversation, Jigga noted that 11-year-old Blue Ivy isn’t always impressed by her famous dad.

“Blue, she be frontin’ on me a little bit, but she—I catch her,” he said. “I catch her in the corner, you know? Now she asks me if this cool, her sneakers or whatever she’s wearing.”

When asked if Blue seeks his advice, the artist said, “Yeah, she’s come back. But there was a time when she was like, ‘Dad!’ I was like, ‘I’m cool, I don’t know what you saying.’ At your house, your parents is cool.”

King also praised Hov‘s writing process “of normally not writing things down,” she said. “How are you able to have that in your head – how do you keep track of all that?”

“I’ve lost a lot of songs that way. I’ve lost a lot of material,” he explained. “I was every night writing in that notebook, that notebook that my mom gave me. It had no lines on it. When I started getting outside, moving further away from my mother’s house, start running the streets, these ideas, they would come and then I would run into a store ‘cause I’m on the corner, and I would write it on paperback and I would put it in my pocket until I got home and I’d transfer it to a book. But then ideas come, more paper … I’m getting further and further away. I had to memorize ideas until I got back.”

The “Book of Hov” exhibit is open to everyone until December 4, 2023.

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