Crazy in Love! After more than 20 years together, Beyonce And Jay Z are still drunk with love and addicted to each other.
The Destiny’s Child singer met her future husband when she was 18 (circa 1999), and a year later they started dating.
“There was no rush – no one expected me to run away and get married,” said the Lion King the actress said Seventeen in November 2008. “I really don’t think you’ll like the same thing at 20 as you did at 30.”
The couple’s real-life chemistry quickly crossed over their careers, with their first musical collaboration on Jay-Z’s “03 Bonnie and Clyde” in 2002. The pair followed up with “Crazy in Love” the following year.
Five years later, the lovebirds tied the knot in a secret ceremony on April 4, 2008.
The Texas native announced she was expecting the couple’s first child when she stepped out on the MTV Video Music Awards red carpet cradling her baby bump in August 2011. The couple became first-time parents in January 2012, when they welcomed their daughter Blue Ivy.
Two years later, the dream girls The relationship between the actress and the “Run This Town” rapper hit a snag when Beyoncé’s sister, Solange Knowleshad a heated argument with Jay-Z at the Met Gala in 2014. Soon after, speculation that Jay-Z had cheated on his wife began to spread.
The couple overcame Jay-Z’s infidelity – which Beyoncé opened up about on her 2016 album Lemonade and he addressed himself on his 4:44 record – but it wasn’t until 2017 that the New York native admitted to having an affair.
“She’s my soul mate. She’s the person I love,” the “Made in America” rapper told CNN in January 2018, explaining why he’s worked so hard to fix his marriage. “And you can be in love with someone. , you can love someone, and if you haven’t known love and you don’t understand it and you don’t have the tools to move on, you’re going to have complications, period.”
Since their reconciliation, the artists have expanded their family, welcoming twins Sir and Rumi in June 2017. They have also joined forces again musically with 2018’s joint album, all is loveand Jay-Z appeared in his wife’s film black is king visual album in July 2020.
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