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As Gayle King wraps up her exclusive interview series with Jay-Z, she opens up about the time Oprah told her to <a href="https://www.bet.com/article/0i992c/gayle-king-oprah-stop-asking-jay-z-for-an-interview">stop requesting interviews</a> from the hip-hop mogul. While on the red carpet at the Formula 1 Heineken Silver Las Vegas Grand Prix, she talked about having high hopes to one day interview with the Brooklyn-born rapper. “I was really buzzing after, yeah, because you don’t know… You know he doesn’t like to do interviews,” she said. King continued, “I think that I just groveled that it became embarrassing. Even Oprah said, ‘You are making a damn fool of yourself. Stop asking him. He doesn’t want to do it.’ But I couldn’t let it go.” The documentary, “Jay-Z and Gayle King: Brooklyn’s Own,” takes a look into the life and career of the rapper. They also explore his exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum called the “Book of HOV, which displays all of the work he has throughout his career and more. What are your thoughts on what Oprah told Gayle King?

Gayle King Says Oprah Told Her To Stop Requesting Interviews From Jay-Z

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Jay-Z has been getting very candid lately as clips of his conversation with CBS Morning's Gayle King continue to roll out. In one of the most recent releases of their conversations, Jay-Z had the opportunity to open up about Beyoncé's work on her latest Renaissance Tour."For me, it's her best tour," he said to King.https://twitter.com/B7Album/status/1717921588350275802"This one to me felt like the most complete. And on top of it, how inclusive it was and the story of her uncle Johnny and like just how and how everything just came about and which goes to from Johnny, the ancestors to Blue."Beyoncé and Jay-Z's daughter, Blue Ivy Carter, made her debut as a live performer with Beyoncé during this tour. Although she didn't appear on the first few shows of the tour's UK leg, she shocked fans when she stepped out to perform alongside her mother for the song My Power."Since she was born, she's been in like scrutiny and public eye and everyone having an opinion of, you know, even the little girl how she keeps her hair," Jay-Z shared. "So for her to be on that stage and reclaim her power and the song is called My Power... you can't write a better script."

Jay-Z Believes Renaissance Tour Is Beyoncé's Best

After a years-long debacle on social media about whether to have lunch with Jay-Z or take $500,000, the rapper finally weighs in.https://youtu.be/rXFK_-nXVJ0In a conversation with CBS Today, the rapper spoke with Gail King and settled the score."You gotta take the money," he said. "What I'mma say?"King explained that many fans online have expressed their interest in taking the lunch because the wisdom that he'd give would be able to make them that amount of money or more. Jay-Z said that not the smartest way to go about it. "You got all that in the music for $10.99. That’s a bad deal. I wouldn’t tell you to cut a bad deal," he explained. "Take the $500,000, go buy some albums and listen to the albums. It’s all there."Although this topic has been around for several years, with its origins still unable to be pinpointed, it recently came back as a popular conversation. Last week, a video surfaced of a fan who stopped Jay-Z at the Dallas Cowboys and Los Angeles Chargers game to admit that he would take the money instead of the meal. The rapper laughed off the comment. "If you piece it together and really listen to the music for the words, for what it is, it’s all there. Everything that I said was going to happen, happened. Everything that I said I wanted to do, I’ve done, and there’s the blueprint," he added, referencing the title of his iconic 2001 album. "The blueprint — literally — to me and my life and my journey is there already."

Jay-Z Tells Fans To Take the $500,000

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Jay-Z has secured another win!Jay-Z along with producer Timbaland, and singer Ginuwine, had a copyright lawsuit that was brought against them dismissed by a Manhattan federal judge. The three of them were being sued by musician Ernie Hines, who accused them of unlawfully sampling ones of his songs from 1969.<a href="https://www.reuters.com/legal/jay-z-timbaland-ginuwine-defeat-soul-musicians-copyright-lawsuit-2023-09-26/">Reports state</a> that the U.S. District Judge Paul Oetken found that Jay-Z’s “Paper Chase” and Ginuwine’s “Toe 2 Toe,” which were both produced by Timbaland, didn’t violate the rights of Hines in his song, “Help Me Put Out The Flame (In My Heart)”. Ernie Hines’ attorney has not released a statement about the judge’s decision and the representative for Warner Music group declined to give a comment. The lawsuit was first brought up in 2019, stating that both songs copied the introduction part of his song. However, the defendants argued that the part that Hines is referring to wasn’t copyright eligible because it was considered as a stock musical phrase from the 1914 song, “Mysterioso Pizzicato.” The phrase has allegedly been used in over 20 other songs.What are your thoughts on this?