Tina Knowles remembers when Beyoncé chose between Jay-Z and another man at the beginning of his romance
Tina Knowles He is sharing some ideas about the first days of his daughter’s relationship Beyoncé With her now husband, Jay-Z.
According to Knowles, 71, the couple’s romance began as a friendship after they met in the early 2000s. “Beyoncé had developed a friendship with him, only by phone,” Knowles wrote in his memoirs, Matriarchwhich was published on Tuesday, April 22. “They advised each other when discussing the industry, each sharing a unique confidence in their artistic vision.”
When the rapper, now 55, visited the hometown of the Knowles family in Houston for a concert, Beyoncé’s mother invited him to dinner. “As Beyoncé and Jay maintained contact with calls, friendship deepened,” Knowles recalled. “She told me, ‘It’s so kind.”
At that time, however, Beyoncé, now 43, was also talking with “another type in the industry” who was interested in having a relationship with her. While Grammy’s winner was in Los Angeles filming Austin Powers in Goldamember From 2002, both Jay-Z and the other boy were going to visit her, so she asked her mother to advice about what to do.
“‘Well, who likes more?’” Knowles recalled having asked her daughter. “‘Who do you enjoy talking more?’
Beyoncé finally chose Jay, already measure that his relationship “became more serious,” Knowles met Jay’s mother, Gloria Carterto his grandmother Hattie White (The one that appears in “Freedom” of Lemonade of Beyoncé) already his two sisters.
“That was the beginning of the union of Carter and Knowles families as a single family, and we are all very close to this day,” he wrote. “Our meetings would become parties, full of laughs and narratives, drinks and dances. In the Bible it says that you have to eat, drink and be cheerful, and they are our evenings with the carter.”
When Beyoncé and Jay-Z married in April 2008, Knowles designed his daughter’s wedding dress.
“They had the wedding at their home on April 4 because it was the only place where we knew it would not be filtered,” Knowles wrote. “We made a lady made white curtains to cover the walls and windows, to 25 feet roofs … The details are my daughter and my son -in -law, but what I will say is that I joined the grandmother and Jay’s mother to cook all the food. We made soul food, of course, the best food for a night of dance and family love.”
While the book does not deepen personal details about Jay-Z’s relationship with Beyoncé, Knowles makes it clear that he considers both the artist of “99 problems” and the husband of Kelly Rowland, Tim Weatherspoonlike your children.
“They are true blessings, and I could not ask for better suppliers and protectors for my daughters and their sons, and it always moves me that their sense of protection extends towards me,” he wrote. “Jay is an example for his children, starting from very humble origins and overcoming all obstacles in the world to be the successful businessman who is. Tim is humble and quiet but incredibly perceptual, managing Kelly’s career for years before becoming an executive in Nickelodeon. Even with all the things in which they are involved, their best performance is as parents.”
Beyoncé and Jay-Z share three children: daughter Blue Ivy, 13, and the Rumi and Sir, 7. Rowland, 44, and Weatherspoon, 51, are parents of the Titan children, 10, and Noah, 4.
Matriarch It is now available.
