2. Their Latest Albums Were Their Version Of Couple’s Therapy
If you’ve listened to both “4:44” and “Lemonade,” you’ll realize that Jay-Z’s album is almost a direct response to Beyoncé’s. His album came out a few months after hers, but originally, the couple planned on releasing the albums around the same time. In fact, the couple was working on their albums at the exact same time. Before Jay-Z released “4:44,” he played it for Beyonce to hear what she thought about what he had to say.
According to Jay-Z, the couple was using their art “almost like a therapy session.” In an interview, he added that he was proud of the art that the two were able to create from their marital problems and that it helped their marriage. “We were sitting in the eye of that hurricane. The best place is right in the middle of the pain. And that’s where we were sitting. And it was uncomfortable. And we had a lot of conversations. And, you know, at the end of the day, we really have a healthy respect for one another’s craft. I think she’s amazing.”
1. Listening To Beyoncé’s “Lemonade” Made Them Both Uncomfortable
Since of the songs on Beyoncé’s album “Lemonade” is about the struggles she’s been having with Jay-Z, we can only imagine how it must have felt for him to hear the songs on the album. Jay-Z said that listening to “Lemonade” was “very, very uncomfortable.” And it makes sense why it was so uncomfortable, too. After all, he had to listen to her almost break down while singing about how he cheated on her and how she wanted to leave him.
Jay-Z elaborated on his feelings about “Lemonade” in an interview with The New York Times Style Magazine. In his own words, Jay-Z said, “You know, most people walk away, and like the divorce rate is like 50 per cent or something ’cause most people can’t see themselves. The hardest thing is seeing pain on someone’s face that you caused, and then have to deal with yourself. So, you know, most people don’t want to do that. You don’t want to look inside yourself. And so you walk away.”
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