Jay-Z Grew Out His Hair for Blue Ivy

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Olivia Craighead,

a news writer for The Cut who covers pop culture and celebrity.

Previously, she wrote about pop culture and entertainment at Gawker.

It turns out that Jay-Z’s locs were all for Blue Ivy Carter. On Father’s Day, a few weeks after the rapper appeared at the Roots Picnic last month sporting a combed-out Afro, Beyoncé and her hair-product brand, Cécred, shared a seven-minute video titled “The Blueprint.” In it, she narrated the sentimental story behind her husband’s locs and why he decided to comb them out after more than eight years.