JAY-Z ON KIMMEL TALKS ABOUT BEYONCE, BROOKLYN, TIDAL & GOING TO HIGH SCHOOL WITH BUSTA RHYMES

Prior to performing at TIDAL X: 1020, Jay Z stopped by “Jimmy Kimmel Live” during the show’s week-long visit to his hometown of Brooklyn. The Roc Nation mogul sat down for an interview, where he discussed TIDAL, his success, and the best pizza in BK.

“My goal was to have a gold album, and I thought I was being crazy,” said Jay, who ranked No. 2 on Forbes’ Cash Kings list this year.

When Kimmel mentioned that Beyoncé likes extra tomato sauce and jalapeños on her pizza, her husband joked, “She’s from Houston, first of all, and they don’t have pizza there.”

Jay Z attended high school with hip-hop greats like Biggie and Busta Rhymes. While recounting his battle with Busta in the lunch room, he humbly declared that he won.  Peep clips below:

At the end, they took a stroll through Brooklyn to Barclays Center, and Jay gave out hugs along the way. “Kimmel” also aired his performance of “Empire State of Mind,” which closed out TIDAL X: 1020.


In other "big pimpin news: Jay Z will not lose. A judge has dismissed a case against the hip-hop mogul and Timbaland alleging copyright infringement with regards to their 1999 hit “Big Pimpin’.”

U.S. District Judge Christina A. Snyder tossed out the case before it reached a jury. The suit was brought by Osama Ahmed Fahmy, the nephew of Egyptian composer Baligh Hamdi, who was trying to sue over his uncle’s 1957 song “Khosara Khosara,” which is sampled in “Big Pimpin’.”