Oh,in that case,sorry for the stray Jay
I think Jay helped her career. But I dont think she needed him and couldve used anybody. Jay is just a tool,but any man with connections wouldve worked. Someone just had to be the fall guy for all the black balling and derailing of careers to keep her on top. Doing this through Jay allows the queen and especially the mother queen to keep their hands clean
Nah... People have forgotten everything.
There was a time when hip hop culture and pop culture was separate
Destinys child was really pop music.
They were successful but dealt more in pop culture. People will debate this but nikkaz wasn't talking about destinys child or even specifically Beyonce back then like that.
And people can talk bad about Jay-Z all day. But at one point he was on top of hip hip. Basically the standard of what a hip hop rapper and business man should be. When it came to an image.
Hip hop around that time was becoming the most popular genre. Basically becoming pop.
So destinys child started to gear more toward hip hop.
Meanwhile jay is trying to seperate himself from being seem as a rapper totally and looked at more like a business man.
Then u start to see jay and Beyonce together which merged the 2 worlds.
Beyonce becomes "queen of the black women" all of a sudden. And jayz is doing deals with craccaz and being seen as Beyonce's husband. Even tho in the hip hop world jay was bigger than her.
Basically this sht was a play to get shorty ingratiated in our culture by being with a well respected man in the culture and for him to get in the circles he couldn't have gotten into before without being tied to her, a pop star.