14 DAY TRIAL // Jay-Z and other rappers have often been criticized for how their music demeans women for referring to them with the B-word. For what it's worth, critics can stop hating because Jay has already decided to take the offensive word out of his vocabulary.
NME obtained a poem that Jay-Z wrote shortly after the birth of his child, daughter Blue Ivy Carter with singer Beyonce, in which he promises he will no longer use the word.
Famous for rapping about having “99 problems but a [expletive] ain't one,” Jay will have to find another word that rhymes with “rich” from now on.
He explains his decision by saying he couldn't possibly use the B-word anymore, now that he has a daughter to think of.
It probably pains him to think some other man could ever refer to her by that name.
“Before I got in the game, made a change, and got rich/ I didn’t think hard about using the word [expletive]/ I rapped, I flipped it, I sold it, I lived it/ Now with my daughter in this world I curse those that give it,” Jay says in the poem.
“No man will degrade her, or call her name. I'm so focused on your future, the degradation has passed. I wish you wealth, health and insight. Forever young you may pass. Blue Ivy Carter, my angel,” the rapper further writes.
This is officially the second tribute the music mogul pays to his newborn daughter.
Just hours after Blue Ivy came into the world, her daddy had already made her a recording artist, by using her cries and coos on a song he put out about the joyous event in his and Beyonce's life, called “Glory.”
Because Blue Ivy rolls in style even before she can walk (or crawl), just days later, she had become the youngest artist to break into Billboard charts, as we also reported at the time – and it happened because Jay credited her as singer on the track.