“I don’t hate this man,” she said. “I don’t know Jay-Z. He’s a total stranger. We just have ideological differences. That’s all, which the song was just talking about a lot of things, but definitely complacency from all of us. I think the names got the most focus like, ‘Go Rihanna, go. Go, Beyonce, go.’ But really that was supposed to be me mimicking the crowd, like this is how y’all look, making all these critiques about folks on the internet but then we be running to the shows to go and support.”
“I have made similar moves in my own career where I’ve contradicted myself, where I’ve done things or supported institutions that I don’t really believe in,” she continued. “That’s why I called the song ‘Namesake,’ because even though I’m saying all this stuff, I am the same. We are all one [and]the same.”
Last month the rapper shared with Complex that she and J. Cole are on good terms after their highly publicized Twitter spat and trading of barbs on songs and that emcee even contributed to her recent block party.
“I had a block party this past summer and I was hitting him to see if he could pull up on some special guest s—, and he was really about it,” she said. “He wasn’t able to because he’s a father with children, but he was down to donate. We have prison chapters for our book club, so he was like, ‘I’m definitely down to support.’ He’s really sweet. We do not have beef, we love Cole over here.”
