Rapper Jeezy (actual identify Jay Wayne Jenkins) not too long ago claimed that Jay-Z eliminated his verse from Beyoncé’s 2013 hit, Drunk in Love. For the unversed, the track was a part of Beyoncé’s self-titled fifth studio album, and the launched model featured a collaboration with Jay-Z. After its launch, Drunk in Love peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Sizzling 100.
Throughout a latest interview, Jeezy claimed he was initially presupposed to be the featured artist on the monitor. Nonetheless, Jay-Z, often known as Hov, apparently referred to as him and instructed him he was eradicating his verse and changing it together with his personal.
Jeezy made this declare throughout his interview on 7PM In Brooklyn with Carmelo Anthony, which was uploaded to YouTube on June 20, 2025. Jenkins admitted that he “dropped the ball” whereas engaged on his verse for Drunk in Love.
“I dropped the ball once I wrote for verse for Drunk in Love for Beyoncé … Hov referred to as me. He is like, ‘I took you off the track. By the best way, I am on there.’ I used to be like, ‘I figured that.’ It’s on somebody’s drive. Inform Bey we have to put that out. It is some classic,” he mentioned.
Jeezy continued that the one time he and Hov had been in the identical sales space was when he labored on Beyoncé’s track. Jenkins additionally admitted that his verse was “a mistake,” including that he went too laborious and “sounded loopy,” which led to Hov scrapping his verse from the track.
“I’ve by no means been in a room with Hov. The one time I’ve ever in a room with Hov was once I wrote the Drunk in Love verse and that was a mistake…It was horrible…He got here within the room and she or he’s like, ‘You bought one thing for this?’ You understand, I’m stepping into. It sounded loopy. That is her track, however I’m simply making an attempt to go laborious. He in all probability like, ‘Oh nah. We not placing that out.’”
Jeezy and Hov have labored collectively on a number of tracks, together with I Do (additionally that includes André 3000), Seen It All, and My President, amongst others.
Jay-Z and Beyoncé carried out Drunk in Love at her Paris present
Beyoncé’s closing present in Paris, as a part of her ongoing “Cowboy Carter Tour,” noticed her welcome Jay-Z because the particular visitor. The live performance, held on the Stade de France on June 22, introduced the Carters collectively to carry out Drunk in Love and Partition.
In addition they carried out Loopy in Love, their 2003 hit from the singer’s debut LP, Dangerously In Love. Jay-Z additionally carried out N***as in Paris from his 2011 joint album with Kanye West, Watch the Throne.
Whereas Loopy in Love is among the customary songs included within the “Cowboy Carter Tour” setlist, the Paris present marked the primary time Beyoncé debuted Drunk in Love on the present tour.
Jay-Z is not the one visitor that Parisian followers welcomed in the course of the three-day run of the “Cowboy Carter Tour.” Miley Cyrus made a particular look on stage in the course of the June 19 present. The duo carried out their duet II Most Needed, the Grammy-winning monitor from Beyoncé’s newest album.
In different information, Jay-Z and Beyoncé attended the Louis Vuitton present in Paris on June 24, 2025. The present was helmed by Pharrell Williams (LV’s inventive director for menswear), who offered the Formation singer with a purse from the runway.
Edited by Shreya Das
