Hello, hello, everybody. Welcome back to another episode of Fluently Forward.

Today we are going to be covering the latest on Jay-Z. And I feel like this could be a part

too because there's also a lot of more fun stuff about Jay-Z, more like pop culture,

you know, official salacious stuff. Like, you know, his history, his rise to fame,

how he got together with Beyonce. We're covering some of that in this episode. His affairs,

the, you know, infamous elevator fight that he had, who Becky with the good hair is, all of that,

you know, his many businesses. But unfortunately today, like the latest

about Jay-Z are all of these allegations and lawsuits and connections to Diddy that are coming out.

And we're going to cover it. Maybe you're like me. I was kind of ignoring this when it came out in

the news, not because I don't care about Jay-Z. Like, he's so big in

pop culture. I think it's just, you know, if you're into pop culture nowadays, it means that you

also have to be into like true crime and the law and like all of these horrible things that are

happening. It's just like, I don't know. I remember growing up when the biggest

deal was that like two girls would like kiss each other on a stage. And now it's like, did you know

that this guy might be a rapist pedophile? It's like, oh my God. And then you think about how it's

always been like that in Hollywood too. Like it just wasn't talked about before. Anyway, happy Monday morning. I'm going to try and

stop bumming you out. We're going to dive on into this. And the first thing I want to start with

is, I have to be honest, I did not know a lot about Jay-Z going into this. But my boyfriend, Zander,

is very into, you know, I don't even know what the difference between hip hop and rap is,

but he's very into it. So I was kind of asking him, like, what's the deal with Jay-Z? He was

telling me how he was like a really good crack dealer. We're going to get all into his history.

I really only knew that he started dating Beyonce when she was far too young and the blind

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