“It actually wasn’t. Sorry”, says the rapper after many assumed was protesting silently along with his wife Beyoncé during the Super Bowl’s National Anthem.
Demi Lovato was singing the National Anthem when the couple was spotted sitting down with their daughter according to video gathered by TMZ.
According to CNN Entertainment, a few days later at Columbia University in New York, Jay-Z revealed that his intentions were only part of his work in Roc Nation—which has a business deal with the NFL in music productions for the football league. Prior to the National Anthem sang by Demi Lovato, him and Beyonce were already seated at the football event.
It “was not premeditated at all,” according to Jay-Z.
Jay-Z was observing the specifics of the music in order to seek out if there were any faults in the mics, speakers, or other music adjustments that needed to be made.
The diversity in the halftime show with Latin artists Shakira and Jennifer Lopez was a statement itself according to Jay-Z.
It was, the “biggest, loudest protest of all”.
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