Jay Z talks about sitting during the national anthem at the 2020 Superbowl

Rapper Jay Z and Beyonce sat down during a rendition of the National anthem by Demi Lovato at the 2020 Superbowl.  Although the Carters love to make a political statement, according to the father-of-three, this was not the case.

Jay who was also co-produced this year half time show told Page six;

“It actually wasn’t—sorry,” “I’d tell you… I’d say, ‘Yes, that’s what I’ve done.’ I think people know that about me.”

“What happened was, we got there, we were sitting, and now the show’s about to start. My wife was with me and so she says to me, ‘I know this feeling right here.’ Like, she’s super nervous because she’s performed at Super Bowls before. I haven’t. So we get there and we immediately jump into artist mode… now I’m really just looking at the show. Did the mic start? Was it too low to start? …I had to explain to them [that] as an artist, if you don’t feel the music, you can’t really reach that level.”

He also talked about how he discussed with be Bey on how proud they were of Demo’s performance.  He continued;

“…Then my phone rang. And it was like, ‘You know you didn’t…’ I’m like, ‘What?'”

“And if anyone who knows Blue … If we told her we were going to do something like that, you would have seen her attacking me 100 times. She’s the kid that gets in the car and closes the door and says, ‘Are we there yet, daddy?’ So she would say, ‘What time? Are we doing it? Are we doing it now? It’s 7:05, daddy… It’s 7:06.'”

Therefore he didn’t need that to make a statement.

“If you look at the stage and the artists that we chose—Columbian [Shakira] and Puerto Rican J.Lo—we were making the loudest statement,” he noted.