Back in 2025, Jay-Z and Diddy were named in a lawsuit, accusing them of raping a 13-year-old girl. Not long after it was reported, Jay dropped off a scathing response, vehemently denying the allegations. The lawsuit was eventually dismissed with prejudice. Now, in a recent sit-down interview with GQ, Jay-Z is finally sharing his thoughts on the incident. As the Roc Nation founder looks back on the situation, he reveals that the allegations initially left him “heartbroken.”
“…I was really heartbroken by everything that occurred. We’re in a space now where it’s almost like consequence is not thought about enough. Because everything is so instant, you know what I’m saying?” Jay says. The billionaire entrepreneur also pointed out that the situation fueled an “uncontrollable anger” inside him.
“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 kind of things on a person. Especially a person like me,” he added. “Even when we were doing the worst things, we had those kind of rules. There was a line: no women, no kids. You hear those sayings, but those are the things that I took from the street. We lived and died by that. So it’s strict for me, like it meant a lot to me.”
