JAY-Z on Daughter Blue Ivy - And What She REALLY Thinks About Him
JAY-Z on Daughter Blue Ivy - And What She REALLY Thinks About Him
Transcript
00:00 Your kids think you're cool?
00:01 Blue, she be frontin' on me a little bit,
00:04 but she, I catch her.
00:07 Jay-Z revealing what his and Beyonce's eldest daughter
00:10 really thinks about her famous parents.
00:13 It's a beautiful thing.
00:15 The rapper spills all the deets in a rare interview
00:17 with Gayle King on CBS Mornings.
00:20 I'm still floating.
00:21 I can't even act like, oh, that wasn't cool,
00:23 that wasn't cool, 'cause he so rarely sits down
00:26 to do interviews, so I was really thrilled and honored
00:29 that he agreed to do it.
00:31 Aside from Gayle and Jay talking about his journey
00:34 to superstardom.
00:35 This is the album that was--
00:37 Hard knock life.
00:38 Is the most important album, because it was the album
00:40 where I honed my craft as a songwriter.
00:42 He also opens up about fatherhood,
00:44 specifically if Blue and her younger siblings,
00:47 Rumi and Sir, think their dad's got the cool factor.
00:51 Blue, she be frontin' on me a little bit,
00:54 but she, I catch her.
00:57 I catch her in the corner, you know?
00:59 Sure, Blue may give her dad a tough time,
01:02 but Jay says she appreciates his style expertise.
01:06 Now she asks me if this cool, if her sneakers
01:09 or whatever she's wearing now.
01:10 She wants your advice.
01:11 Yeah, yeah, yeah, she's come back.
01:13 But there was a time where she was like, dad!
01:16 I was like, I'm cool, I don't know what you sayin'.
01:20 At your house, your parents is cool.
01:22 Undeniably cool, the Brooklyn Public Library
01:26 in Jay's hometown, turning the entire building
01:29 into an exhibit dedicated to his music legacy.
01:32 Oh, it's unbelievable.
01:33 First of all, it's Brooklyn.
01:34 Let's start there, right?
01:35 It's in Brooklyn.
01:37 What does Brooklyn mean to you, Jay-Z?
01:39 Yeah, everything, it's everything.
01:41 ♪ Yeah, I'm out that Brooklyn ♪
01:42 ♪ Now I'm down in Tribeca ♪
01:44 ♪ Right next to the narrow ♪
01:45 ♪ But I'll be hood forever ♪
01:47 Jay tells Gail it's important his children see his work.
01:50 In fact, he says he plans to hold onto his masters
01:53 so he can someday pass them along to his three kids.
01:57 And if they decide to sell it, then it's up to them.
01:59 This isn't gonna be one of those things,
02:00 you know, sometimes when people have a part two,
02:02 you go, well, we already saw that in part one.
02:05 I guarantee you, anything you saw in part one,
02:07 you are not gonna see in part two.
02:09 We got that much stuff.
02:10 You know what happened?
02:11 We had an embarrassment of riches,
02:13 where I thought, we gotta put this in,
02:15 we gotta put this in, we gotta put this in,
02:16 and that's why it's two parts.
02:18 Yeah, there's lots more in part two of Gail's sit-down,
02:22 including his wife and Blue's special moments on stage
02:25 during Beyonce's Renaissance World Tour.
02:28 ♪ Here I come on my own two hands ♪
02:31 ♪ Follow my parade, oh ♪
02:34 ♪ My parade ♪
02:36 ♪ Eee, eee, oh boy ♪
02:39 You know, they are a very, very tight family unit.
02:42 A tight-knit family with countless accomplishments.
02:45 So here's hoping Blue and her siblings
02:47 recognize all that coolness.
02:50 At your house, your parents is cool.
02:52 (whooshing)
02:55 (whooshing)
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