Jay-Z has opened up about how his mother was reluctant to take a role on his track ‘Smile’, in which she publicly discussed her sexuality for the first time.The deeply personal track featured on the rapper’s 2017 album ‘4.44‘, and featured a poem that heard Gloria Carter coming out as gay.In a new appearance on The Shop: Uninterrupted, Jay-Z revealed how his mother was initially reluctant about the idea before eventually deciding to pen the personal poem for the track.“It changed the dynamic of our relationship,” the rapper said.“When she first heard that song she got super defensive.
I was in LA and she flew out to LA and then she left and was like, ‘No.’ We talked through it. And then when she flew back to LA she had written a poem.