Has Jay-Z Given Up the B-Word Because of His Daughter?

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From now on, when JAY-Z talks about his 99 problems, he’s going to have to get a little creative.  Because, thanks to the birth of his daughter Blue Ivy, he can no longer use the B-Word.

According to the website AllHipHop.com, Jay released a rhyme yesterday which announced that he’s given it up.  He said . . .

“Before I got in the game, made a change, and got rich,

I didn’t think hard about using the word [B****].

I rapped, I flipped it, I sold it, I lived it

Now with my daughter in this world I curse those that give it.

I never realized while on the fast track

That I’d give riddance to the word [B****], to leave her innocence intact.

No man will degrade her, or [call out] her name

The women won’t despise her and call her the same.”

(–There’s more.  You can read it here.)

(It was okay for him to spew that misogynist crap when other people’s daughters were growing up.  What makes his daughter so special?)