{"id":287682,"date":"2020-02-04T19:53:43","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T02:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1119537"},"modified":"2020-02-04T19:53:43","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T02:53:43","slug":"jay-z-explains-why-he-and-beyonce-really-sat-during-the-super-bowl-national-anthem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/jay-z-explains-why-he-and-beyonce-really-sat-during-the-super-bowl-national-anthem\/","title":{"rendered":"Jay-Z Explains Why He and Beyonc\u00e9 Really Sat During the Super Bowl National Anthem"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jay-Z<\/strong> is setting the record straight after he and Beyonc\u00e9<\/a><\/strong> stirred controversy for remaining seated during the 2020 Super Bowl<\/a>‘s national anthem presentation.<\/p>\n

The rapper addressed the backlash during a lecture series Q&A at Columbia University on Tuesday night. Jay-Z\u2014who co-produced<\/a> this year’s halftime show and is a partner of the NFL\u2014denied that by not standing up for Demi Lovato<\/a><\/strong>‘s performance<\/a>, he and Bey were making a subtle political statement. <\/p>\n

“It actually wasn’t\u2014sorry,” Jay-Z said, according to Page Six<\/a>. If he had<\/em> been sending a message, Jay explained, “I’d tell you… I’d say, \u2018Yes, that’s what I’ve done.’ I think people know that about me.”<\/p>\n

As he described it, “What happened was, we got there, we were sitting, and now the show’s about to start. My wife was with me and so she says to me, ‘I know this feeling right here.’ Like, she’s super nervous because she’s performed at Super Bowls before. I haven’t. So we get there and we immediately jump into artist mode… now I’m really just looking at the show. Did the mic start? Was it too low to start? …I had to explain to them [that] as an artist, if you don’t feel the music, you can’t really reach that level.”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Jay went on to say that he and Beyonc\u00e9 were deep in discussion about how “proud” they were of Demi when the performance concluded. “…Then my phone rang. And it was like, \u2018You know you didn’t…’ I’m like, \u2018What?'”<\/p>\n

The outlet reports that the Grammy winner also said they wouldn’t put daughter Blue Ivy Carter<\/a><\/strong> “in that position,” adding, “And if anyone who knows Blue \u2026 If we told her we were going to do something like that, you would have seen her attacking me 100 times. She’s the kid that gets in the car and closes the door and says, \u2018Are we there yet, daddy?’ So she would say, \u2018What time? Are we doing it? Are we doing it now? It’s 7:05, daddy\u2026 It’s 7:06.'”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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All in all, Jay assured those present at tonight’s event that he “didn’t have to make a silent protest” thanks to Jennifer Lopez<\/a><\/strong> and Shakira<\/a><\/strong>‘s fiery halftime show<\/a>. <\/p>\n

“If you look at the stage and the artists that we chose\u2014Columbian [Shakira] and Puerto Rican J.Lo\u2014we were making the loudest statement,” he noted. <\/p>\n

Case closed, Hov. <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Watch E! News<\/i> weekday mornings at 7 a.m. and don’t miss our 2020 Oscars: E’s Inside Guide<\/i> special Thursday, Feb. 6 at 10:30 p.m.!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Instagram Jay-Z is setting the record straight after he and Beyonc\u00e9 stirred controversy for remaining seated during the 2020 Super Bowl‘s national anthem presentation. The rapper addressed the backlash during a lecture series Q&A at Columbia University on Tuesday night. Jay-Z\u2014who co-produced this year’s halftime show and is a partner of the NFL\u2014denied that by not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-01 11:06:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}