Jay-Z has revealed why he and wife Beyoncé chose the names Rumi and Sir for their twins, who were born in June. The 47-year-old rapper opened up on Friday how they both came to choose the names Rumi and Sir. “Rumi is our favorite poet, so it was for our daughter,” he shared. “Sir was like, man, come out the gate. He carries himself like that. He just came out, like, Sir.”
The Roc Nation founder also opened up about how the couple’s firstborn, daughter Blue Ivy, ended up rapping a freestyle for one of the bonus tracks on his new album, 4:44. Blue, 5, was in the recording studio with her father while he was working on the record. At one point, he turned his back and started working on something else, so Blue took matters into her own hands.
“She got the headphones and she climbed on the little stool, and then she just started rapping. … I was like, ‘Oh, s–t,'” Jay-Z recalled. “I have [her full freestyle] on my phone. Five minutes! Five minutes of her doing that.”
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