Jay Z Freestyle at the Roots Picnic Explained

Added: 2026-06-04

[00:00:00]Jay-Z, [ __ ] >> Paddy's turning a hunnid.

[00:00:02]>> Yeah.

[00:00:03]>> If she woulda transitioned before I cleared my name, I woulda hunted them, [laughter] every one of them, playing these silly games. That 1-800 ambulance chaser woulda wished one came. But now my one is a joke. Public enemy number one I've been ranked. The rocks now crumbling. The leprechauns magically run out of pranks. Your son on a federal jail line mumbling something about having too much in his drink.

[00:00:26]>> Troy Lanez.

[00:00:27]>> You know how dumb that is? Another one fumble is one to how I get the blame.

[00:00:31]Nigga's teeth is tumbling out they mouth and somehow I'm the one who done it.

[00:00:34]It's a murder mystery game.

[00:00:35]>> Gang.

[00:00:37]>> [cheering] >> Gang dash.

[00:00:40]Come on, Jay.

[00:00:42]Mhm.

[00:00:43]>> You had to cash Khaled thunk it. When you punked his, I'm the one who shrunk the pain. The hill you can die on is way too much flat that comes from those planes.

[00:00:52]>> Mhm.

[00:00:52]>> I'm killing them softly. What's understood don't >> Let me explain. Right.

[00:00:56]>> You wanted my way so other. I still own you suckers up. All of you [ __ ] gang.

[00:01:01]I ain't much for meetings no how. Cancel the brunches. I remember >> The hunger pains.

[00:01:05]>> The price of the bricks going up, it's going to cost you a bill to even say my name.

[00:01:09]>> Mhm.

[00:01:10]>> Number one to cancel. My children and some of them have you [ __ ] no shame.

[00:01:14]>> [clears throat] >> Y'all trying to get under skin. I really get under skin as unharm plan.

[00:01:19]>> Last Rivera. Do your research on Last Rivera.

[00:01:22]>> Y'all fuss with y'all thumbs again.

[00:01:23]Everybody think they the ones insane.

[00:01:26]You're no maniac. Watch out sane yak in my presence, [ __ ] shrink. I need a new therapist. This [ __ ] is not working. I'm I'm truly on the brink. Y'all better not encourage you. Y'all don't want me to think these thoughts that I think.

[00:01:38]>> Kanye.

[00:01:39]>> That nut ass [ __ ] still stuttering.

[00:01:41]>> Don't y'all see no perks?

[00:01:42]>> That chatty patty down on his luck again.

[00:01:44]>> Gang.

[00:01:46]>> [cheering] >> Plus introducing me to Jaguar, I don't know why I still [ __ ] with him.

[00:01:54]>> Jaguar write bars is crazy, gang.

[00:01:58]We still going. We still going.

[00:02:05]Keep going.

[00:02:29]Bible bars crazy.

[00:02:43]Drake.

[00:02:46]>> [cheering] >> Don't make me go further.

[00:03:05]>> [clears throat] >> Don't forget who I am. Right.

[00:03:19]Yeah.

[00:03:24]A lot to unpack, but I'm fresh off vacation. Drake, Nicki Minaj, Tory Lanez, O.T. Genasis, Sparks, Dame Dash, all of them catch a shot. Kanye West as well. Jay-Z says Hattie's turned a hundred. He's referencing his grandmother. He said if he wouldn't have cleared his name, he would have hunted them, every single one of them, talking about his accusers. In 2024, Jay-Z was named in a civil lawsuit where he was accused of drugging and sexually assaulting a 13-year-old woman in the early 2000s. In 2025, this case was dismissed and the Jane Doe in question privately said that she was pressured into the suit. Not to mention there was a lot of inconsistencies in this lady's story and Jay-Z and his legal team countersued for defamation saying that this was an extortion and blackmail plot. The leprechauns have magically run out of pranks. You have someone on a federal jail line mumbling something about having too much in his drink, Tory Lanez. For years Tory Lanez and his family has been saying Roc Nation, Jay-Z's company, is sabotaging and framed him in the Megan Thee Stallion shooting.

[00:04:14]>> You want to know how I feel? I'll tell you exactly how I feel. I got some names that I want to call. Alex Spiro, Desiree Perez, and the whole wicked system of Roc Nation, including you, Jay-Z.

[00:04:30]You who say you rose from the gutter, but you have traded and bartered the souls of young men, and you're still doing it.

[00:04:39]>> Despite the fact that Tory Lanez is on a federal jail line damn near admitting to it in a sense.

[00:04:44]>> I'm drunk, [ __ ] I didn't even know what the [ __ ] was going on, bro.

[00:04:48]I didn't even know what the [ __ ] was going on, bro. Like that ass [ __ ] I'd never do some [ __ ] like that, bro.

[00:04:54]Just that a [ __ ] I was just so [ __ ] drunk, [ __ ] I just didn't even understand what the [ __ ] was going on, bro. Like So I whatever, but you know, regardless that's not going to make anything right.

[00:05:07]>> Nigga's teeth is tumbling out they mouth and somehow I'm the one that done it.

[00:05:10]It's a murder mystery gang. Dame Dash, former business partner, former friend Dame Dash has been talking about Jay-Z for years.

[00:05:17]>> Nobody cares about Jay-Z as a rapper. I left Roc-A-Fella. It wasn't that I got kicked out of Roc-A-Fella. I left Roc-A-Fella.

[00:05:24]>> And in these interviews there's a lot of talk on Dame Dash's finances on how he's going broke and things like that. His teeth literally fell out on a live before and people are saying that it's Jay-Z's fault that Dame Dash isn't who he once was. And going off the past relationship with Dame Dash and the success of Roc-A-Fella, Roc Nation, people think that somehow that Jay-Z should help Dame. But since he won't, they blame Jay-Z.

[00:05:44]>> Uh Ray Daniels, um he's in the industry and he says he's kind of lost some respect for Hove because Hove won't help Dame Dash out of his financial situation.

[00:05:56]>> You want it one way it's the other. I still owe you suckers. I owe all you [ __ ] gang. Crazy. Remember on that episode of The Wire where Marlo stole in front of the security guard. He told him, "You want it one way but it's the other. Listen, I'm the boss around here." Later on the security guard was found deceased.

[00:06:10]>> You wanted it to be one way.

[00:06:12]>> Man, I don't >> You wanted it to be one way.

[00:06:13]>> Man, stop.

[00:06:15]Stop saying that.

[00:06:21]>> But it's the other way.

[00:06:22]>> You get the reference of what Jay-Z is saying. Okay, I ain't much for the meetings no how. Cancel the brunches. I remember the hunger pain. Crazy. The price of the bricks going up is going to cost you a beating even say my name.

[00:06:32]Listen, when was the last time you heard of a Roc Nation brunch? You know they used to do it every year. Okay, it's going to cost you a beat to say my name is ridiculous when you know they're worth billions. You dig? And not to mention his wife is Beyoncé and she had a song called Keep up. Have you ever heard of a wonder kid? My children is some of them. Have you [ __ ] no shame? You trying to get under skin. I really get under skin. Ask A young child who achieves much success.

[00:06:58]One could say like Jay-Z's children who Kanye West was speaking on once upon a time. Jay-Z feels Kanye was trying to get under his skin but when Jay-Z get under skin you get a Lance Rivera type of situation. But if you was to ask Lance Rivera on how Jay-Z got under his skin allegedly he stabbed him.

[00:07:14]>> Top rap star is busted.

[00:07:16]>> Jay-Z turned himself in tonight and the cops started working on his rap sheet accusing him of of a stabbing at a trendy party.

[00:07:24]>> During a party celebrating a new release by rapper Q-Tip, Jay-Z and his crew surrounded the 33-year-old Rivera and his 29-year-old brother Corey. Witnesses say that Jay-Z allegedly plunged a knife into Rivera's stomach and smashed a bottle over his brother's head. Was Jay-Z the one that actually stabbed you?

[00:07:40]>> Um For the No.

[00:07:44]>> Everyone think they're the ones insane.

[00:07:46]You're no maniac. Watch how sane yak in my presence [ __ ] shrink. I need a new therapist. Damn. Y'all better not encourage him, Kanye. Y'all don't want me to think these thoughts I think.

[00:07:56]Kanye already said he know Jay-Z got them goons.

[00:08:06]So, it's just best if Kanye shut the [ __ ] up. Exactly. Exactly. That nut ass [ __ ] still stuttering.

[00:08:17]That chatty patty down on his luck again.

[00:08:19]Osiris been on Vlad's Say Cheese just talking up a storm. Talking so much that Vlad even made him a regular on the show.

[00:08:29]He don't really want to see you do good.

[00:08:31]So, of course Jay-Z had to give him two bars. Quest introduced me to Jaguar.

[00:08:36]I don't know why I still [ __ ] with him.

[00:08:38]Jaguar Wright Oh my god, the history on her and Jay-Z goes so far. Jaguar Wright has been speaking negatively on Jay-Z for years.

[00:08:46]She said he's a monster. She's mentioning things about him and Lil Yachty. She says that Jay-Z is behind the whole Diddy [ __ ] >> Don Carter, you're a piece of [ __ ] Taking Pimp C wasn't bad enough?

[00:08:56]>> Jaguar even went on the Piers Morgan show and said some things publicly, nationally, which was later taken down because Jay-Z can sue Piers Morgan. He can't sue Jaguar Wright because she has no money, allegedly. That lady back on that stuff again. She sound like she in love with him. Her kin can't even take their kid to the Enough of them. Nicki Minaj and her husband Kenneth Petty. You see the flip that he did right there? Nicki Minaj has been saying a lot about Jay-Z via Twitter and she's been saying a god damn lot. But ironically her husband Kenneth Petty is on the child predator registry list so he's probably not allowed near schools just like her brother. And Nicki Minaj's brother who is also her kin can't take their kid to Enough of them. Wordplay's crazy. Jay-Z keep going at Nicki Minaj who was a Trump supporter. A rapper can't be my opp. I got MAGA Republicans. Them shots came from the top of the government.

[00:09:41]Good luck with them. Jay-Z alleges that if they shooting at Trump and them his people, [ __ ] You think they won't come for you either, Nicki? That's crazy. But the way Jay-Z came at my boy Drake is is wild.

[00:09:52]My next update, the jig is up, [ __ ] I'm up 10. Wrong chart champ, you got to look up again. [ __ ] look up to Hov, I never looked up to them. Them crackers got your publishing gangster, go talk tough to them. And this wordplay is just astonishing, especially the way Jay-Z clap back at Drake in four bars.

[00:10:09]On each of the three songs that Drake was talking about Jay-Z on. On Whisper My Name, Drake said, I take the 500K, not the dinner. I never could learn [ __ ] [music] from none of y'all. Also, on Johnny Shut the [ __ ] Up, Drake said, We know how you OGs rocking, my [ __ ] the jig is up. Jay-Z saying, Yeah, the next update, my jig is up. [ __ ] I'm up 10.

[00:10:25]See, the thing about jig is this. When Jay say my next update, the jig is up, he talking about gigabytes. That's a billion. He said, Wrong chart champ, I'm up again. He talking about the metric unit chart. That says the gigabytes is 10. You know, that. Not the Billboard charts, but the metric unit chart.

[00:10:42][ __ ] look up to Hov, you know how you pray to God. I never look up to them. Do God pray to you? Okay. Them crackers got your publishing gangster, go talk tough to them.

[00:10:51]That's wild. Hold on a second. Don't talk success to me, you [ __ ] is workers in perpetuity and your contract is how it is worded. No matter what you do, is what Jay-Z is saying.

[00:11:00]They own your masters, so you can drop three albums and one of them can hit all on the charts, but that money go straight to UMG.

[00:11:10]Jesus. And and he said, Don't make me go further. Like I could, man. Don't make me go further, man. Then he didn't even finish it, but that's what he was saying. He ended it so far as taking shots by saying, The roots remember even when a tree is pretend. The roots, like the group, but also the roots of a tree.

[00:11:26][ __ ] I've been here since the beginning. Y'all [ __ ] the tree I'm I'm I'm in the soil.

[00:11:30]That's how he ended it. [ __ ] the roots remember when the trees pretend. Not too much on my name.

[00:11:35]Don't forget who I am. Ho, this was immaculate. You know what I'm saying?

[00:11:40]The way Jay-Z came at all of his foes and peers in such a short amount of time. It was only like, what, 3-minute freestyle? But smoosh so deliberately and so effective to get people to talk about and to like, "Hey, y'all said this. Here you go."

[00:11:54]It's almost like the fact it was so small is like it's it's beneath him. He did this on a Saturday. So, people going to be talking about this right here all next week.

[00:12:03]All next week people going to munch on this. And I guess we're going to see what his peers going to say cuz they definitely going to going to speak on this. God damn Jay-Z, you damn near have to. And we not going to hear Jay-Z responses to these people responses cuz they going to have one like I said until who the [ __ ] ever knows. It's like Jay-Z is really the ho of the rap game. Like, I do what I want to. I say what I want to say. When I pop out, y'all going to listen. Y'all going to hear. And y'all going to respond to whatever hell I got to say. And I'll get to y'all when when I god damn feel like it. I'm too good.