How Did Jay-Z React When His Mom Came Out As A Lesbian?
Posted on Fri Sep 8th, 2017 10:20am PDT By X17 Staff
Just fine, actually.
Jay-Z rapped about his mom Gloria Carter coming out as a lesbian on his new album 4:44, and now Gloria herself is opening up about that big moment.
"Mama had four kids, but she's a lesbian / Had to pretend so long that she's a thespian / Had to hide in the closet, so she medicate / Society shame and the pain was too much to take / Cried tears of joy when you fell in love / Don't matter to me if it's a him or her," one verse in the song "Smile" goes.
Mrs. Carter says she wasn't nervous to reveal the truth to Hova, but she wasn't sure she wanted to share the news with the rest of the world.
"Me and my son, we share a lot of information. I was sitting there and I was telling him one day, I just finally started telling him who I was. Besides your mother, this is the person that I am. This is the life that I live. My son started actually tearing 'cause he's like, 'That had to be a horrible life, Ma.' I was like, 'My life was never horrible. It was just different.' So that made him want to do a song about it," she explained on the D'USSE Friday podcast.
So what made her want to record the tune?
"The first time I heard the song, I was like, 'Eh, I don't know, dude. I ain't feeling that.' When it first happened, I was sharing myself [with Jay], not to share myself with the world. I was never ashamed of me. But in my family, it was something that was never discussed. I'm tired of all the mystery. I'm gonna give it to 'em. ... Now it's time for me to live my life and be happy, be free," she revealed.
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