After taking a lengthy hiatus from the rap game and public life altogether, it seems like JAŸ-Z is slowly coming out of hibernation and reintroducing himself to pop culture. From randomly throwing up his “Dead Presidents” single posters all over New York City just last month to announcing a two-day (now three-day) concert in Yankee Stadium in July, JAŸ-Z is making it known that he’s coming back for the throne. Truth be told, we say it’s about damn time.
Now making the media rounds, JAŸ-Z gave GQ an exclusive interview in which he reflects on his life, the music that made him an icon, and his take on the Kendrick Lamar and Drake battle of 2024.
Here are 11 things we learned from JAŸ-Z in GQ…
The Diddy-Related Lawsuit
When asked about how he would “rate” his 2025, JAŸ-Z admitted that the lawsuit he was hit with alleging that he had sexually assaulted a woman “took a lot” out of him and led to him being in a state of “uncontrollable anger” that he hadn’t been in a long time.“You had to be super sure before you put those kind of things on a person. Especially a person like me,” he said, according to GQ. “Even when we were doing the worst things, we had those kind of rules. There was a line: no women, no kids. You hear those sayings, but those are the things that I took from the street. We lived and died by that. So it’s strict for me, like it meant a lot to me.”
