The rapper discussed his 2024 sexual assault lawsuit and the Kendrick-Drake beef in a new GQ cover story
Jay-Z has spoken out about his recent sexual assault lawsuit in a new interview.
The suit alleged that Jay-Z and Sean “Diddy” Combs raped a a 13-year-old girl at a party in 2000. Combs and Jay-Z denied all allegations after the lawsuit was filed in late 2024, and the case was voluntarily dismissed in February 2025.
“It was hard,” Jay-Z told GQ. “Really hard. I was heartbroken. 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?”
The rapper continued: “I was angry. 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 [about]. It used to be like that. You had to be super sure before you put those kind of things on a person.”
