{"id":469777,"date":"2026-05-31T22:23:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T22:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/469777\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T22:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T22:23:09","slug":"jay-z-appears-to-diss-drake-kanye-west-nicki-minaj-in-freestyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/469777\/","title":{"rendered":"Jay-Z Appears to Diss Drake, Kanye West, Nicki Minaj in Freestyle"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tJay-Z<\/a> served as the headliner for Roots Picnic<\/a> on Saturday in Philadelphia, and he surprised fans with a provocative freestyle right at the get-go. During his first headlining show in more than five years, he performed 32-songs over the course of 90 minutes and along with delivering his big hits, he also dropped disses on haters that include Drake, Kanye West, and Nicki Minaj.<\/p>\n

\n\tJust minutes into his performance, he took his first apparent shot: Following 2002\u2019s \u201cHovi Baby,\u201d he dropped a four-minute freestyle. Performing a cappella, he seemingly went off on Drake, addressing his Iceman song \u201cJanice STFU,\u201d where Drake raps, \u201cThe jig is up.\u201d On Saturday, Jay-Z clapped back: \u201cThe jig is up\/We got up 10\/wrong chart champ\/You gotta look up again\/N\u2014-s look up to Hov\/I never looked up to them.\u201d He had more for Drake: \u201cThem crackers got your publishing gangsta, go talk tough to them, don\u2019t talk success to me,\u201d he spit. \u201cYou n\u2014-s is workers, in perpetuity is how your contract is worded\/Don\u2019t make me go further, man.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tOn West, now known as Ye, Jay-Z\u2019s bars appeared to home in on Ye previously making derogatory comments about Jay-Z and Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s children. \u201cYou ever heard of wonder-kin? My children are some of them,\u201d Jay-Z rapped, \u201cHave you n\u2014-s have no shame? You trying to get under skin? I\u2019ll really get under skin.\u201d While Jay-Z\u2019s lyrics took Ye to task, he still delivered songs from their collaborative album, Watch the Throne, including \u201cNo Church in the Wild,\u201d \u201cGotta Have It,\u201d and \u201cN\u2014-s in Paris,\u201d per Setlist.fm<\/a>. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen it came to what seemed like a shot at Minaj, Jay-Z rapped, \u201cThat lady back on that stuff\/She sounds like she\u2019s in love with \u2019em\/Her Ken can\u2019t even pick they kid, enough of them.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe freestyle comes after Jay-Z recently weighed in on the Kendrick Lamar-Drake beef in an interview with GQ<\/a>, arguing that \u201cthis is taking us a couple steps back.\u201d He added: \u201cWe\u2019ve just grown so much that \u2014 I guess I\u2019m going to say it \u2014 I don\u2019t know if battling needs to be part of the culture anymore.\u201d Despite saying that, he also admitted that his stance on rap battles may be hypocritical, given his own history with rhyme wars. And his freestyle last night serves as a case in point.<\/p>\n

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\n\tHis Roots Picnic set, where he was backed by the Roots, featured a bevy of guests, including Meek Mill, Jazmine Sullivan, Bilal, and a reunited State Property.<\/p>\n

\n\tJay-Z\u2019s Roots Picnic appearance served as a precursor to his Reasonable Doubt and The Blueprint <\/a>anniversary shows<\/a> set for New York\u2019s Yankee Stadium on July 10 and 11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jay-Z served as the headliner for Roots Picnic on Saturday in Philadelphia, and he surprised fans with a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,85,46,15415,168592],"class_list":["post-469777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-jay-z","tag-roots-picnic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}