JAY-Z addresses Kanye West beef & why they haven’t spoken since

JAY-Z has opened up about his alleged feud and tumultuous relationship with Kim Kardashian’s husband, Kanye West.

The rapper, 47, recently chatted with Rap Radar hosts Elliott Wilson and Brian “B.Dot” Miller to discuss his song “Kill Jay Z,” the single off his latest album, 4:44, in which he sent a few jabs Kanye’s way.



You recall in the single, the Tidal founder raps:

“I know people backstab you, I feel bad too/ But this ‘f— everybody’ attitude ain’t natural/ But you ain’t the same, this ain’t KumbaYe/ But you got hurt because you did cool by ‘Ye/ You gave him 20 million without blinkin’/ He gave you 20 minutes on stage, f— was he thinkin’?/ ‘F— wrong with everybody?’ is what you sayin’/ But if everybody’s crazy, you’re the one that’s insane.”

During his Rap Radar sit-down, JAY-Z said:

It’s not even about a Kanye diss. It’s not a diss, I’m talking to myself the whole time.”
However, some of Kanye’s past comments did make the husband of Beyoncé upset.

“You got hurt, because this guy was talking about you on a stage,” JAY-Z said referencing West’s infamous Sacramento concert rant last year.
“But what really hurt me, you can’t bring my kid or my wife into it. … We’ve gotten past bigger issues, but you brought my family into it, now it’s a problem with me.”

You know it’s a problem because me and him would have been talked about it, been resolved our issues. And he knows crossed the line. He knows. And I know he knows. ‘Cause we’ve never let this much space go between one of our disagreements and we’ve had many. That’s part of who we are.”

“Don’t talk about anyone’s kid on stage. Our children are already in this place where they’re affected by our celebrity. Don’t go and do something that’ll allow people to pit us against each other. Don’t do that.”

In Sacramento, California in November of last year, West told a concert audience that he had a hard time reaching his mentor.

“JAY-Z, call me, bruh. You still ain’t calling me. JAY-Z, call me. Aye, bruh, I know you got killers. Please don’t send them at my head. Just call me. Talk to me like a man.”

Shortly after, Kanye West’s tour was canceled, and he was hospitalized.