Jay-Z gets candid on Diddy lawsuit, Kendrick and Drake feud
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Jay-Z opened up about his life in the spotlight, including a 2024 sexual assault lawsuit brought against him, in a new GQ magazine interview.
Jay-Z isn't just taking the mic again. He's also speaking his mind.
The Grammy-winning rapper, who's poised to make a musical comeback this summer with multiple anniversary concerts, opened up about his career and life in the spotlight in an interview with GQ magazine published Tuesday, March 24.
The rare profile comes a little over a year after Jay-Z was accused of drugging and raping an underage girl in a lawsuit filed against fellow rapper Sean "Diddy" Combs. Last February, the woman filed for the case to be dismissed "with prejudice," meaning it cannot be re-filed in the future. Jay-Z, who had vigorously denied the allegations, countersued the woman and her attorney, Tony Buzbee, in a March 2025 lawsuit.
The lawsuit "took a lot out of me. I was angry," Jay-Z, 56, told the magazine. "I haven't been that angry in a long time, uncontrollable anger. You don't put that on someone — that's a thing that you better be super sure. It used to be like that. You had to be super sure before you put those kinds of things on a person, especially a person like me."
The rapper's accuser, a woman identified anonymously as Jane Doe, initially only named Combs in her October 2024 lawsuit. Then in December of that year, she amended the complaint to include Jay-Z as a defendant.
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