(Video) Jay Z Talks About Saving Marriage to Beyonce After Infidelity On #VanJonesShow
No ‘family feud’ here. Jay-Z spoke candidly about how he and Beyoncé mended their relationship after the pair experienced marital strife.
“What is it about this marriage that’s so special, that you would fight this hard to save it?” CNN’s Van Jones asked Jay-Z during an interview with the music mogul on Saturday, January 27.
The “Made in America” rapper answered, “Well, that’s my soulmate. It’s the person I love. And you can be in love with someone, you can love someone, and if you haven’t experienced love and you don’t understand it and you don’t have the tools to move forward, you’re going to have complications, period.”
Jay Z says he was straight with Beyonce and dealt with his infidelity head on to save his marriage, because she was his soul mate and it was definitely worth fighting for.
He says, “For us, we chose to fight for our love, for our family, to give our kids different outcome, to break that cycle for black men and women.”
Beyonce’s Lemonade also addressed the long-standing rumors of infidelity. In “Sorry,” she tells a cheating man to “call Becky with the good hair.” It was a lyric that Jay-Z also touched on in 4:44’s “Family Feud,” in which he raps, “Yeah, I’ll f–k up a good thing if you let me / Let me alone, Becky. A man that don’t take care his family can’t be rich.”
Jay-Z later told T: The New York Times Style Magazine in November 2017 that opening up about their relationship’s ups and downs in 4:44 and Lemonade helped benefit them as individuals — and as a couple.