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It’s not about interviews or getting the right photo op. October 2008: In an interview with Essence magazine, Bey is unusually candid about her private life, explaining that it was a joint decision to keep quiet about their relationship. Instead of exchanging rings, they both got matching IV tattoos on their ring fingers. Their marriage is on 4/4, a persistently important number in their relationship (they were both born on the fourth of the month).

The duo continued to appear onstage together frequently throughout 2006: From performing “Déjà Vu” together at the 2006 BET awards to Beyoncé appearing at Jay’s Reasonable Doubt tenth-anniversary concert in New York.Ģ007: The pendulum swings yet again from breakup rumors to engagement rumors: While the pair won’t publicly confirm it, rumors of their engagement run rampant throughout 2007, with tabloids claiming that Jay popped the question on Bey’s birthday in September.Īpril 4, 2008: Jay and Bey marry at a private ceremony at Jay Z’s Tribeca apartment New York. In 2006, Jay also released the single “ Hollywood,” featuring Bey, which she then rereleased on the deluxe version of B’Day as “Welcome to Hollywood.” It’s one of the hardest things about a real relationship of equals. This is about how difficult it is to respect a lover as an autonomous human being, with separate needs and goals and timelines than yours. In a lot of ways, this is the flip side of the songs in my catalog like “Big Pimpin’,” where women exist almost completely as predators or objects. These lines are about trying to have a real, serious relationship with another ambitious professional. In his 2010 book Decoded, Jay clarifies that the song is indeed about their relationship: As he raps: “I don’t think it’s meant to be, B / But she loves her work more than she does me / And honestly, at 23 / I would probably love my work more than I did she.” November 2006: Jay Z released his comeback album Kingdom Come, featuring the song “Lost One.” The track’s somber lyrics fuel speculation that the pair’s relationship is on the rocks. September 2006: Beyoncé releases her album B’Day, featuring Jay Z on the songs “Upgrade U” and “Déjà Vu.” I never pictured myself as a bride, but after my sister’s wedding, I did start thinking about what kind of wedding I’d want. I don’t know when I’ll want to get married. “Right now, the tabloids are saying I’m pregnant, and they’re naming the baby,” she said. January 10, 2006: In a Cosmopolitan magazine interview, Beyoncé teases a wedding for the first time - well, sort of. In an interview with Vanity Fair more than a decade later, Jay would say of the time surrounding that shoot, “We were just beginning to try to date each other.”Ģ005: Despite attempts to keep their relationship private, the pair remains highly visible throughout 2005, as they are snapped canoodling everywhere from Italy to the Grammys. November 2001: Jay and Bey both appear on the cover of Vanity Fair’s music issue. July 4, 2000: An 18-year-old Bey appears on Jay Z protégé (and Roc-A-Fella records golden girl) Amil’s track “I Got That.”

Exactly when their meet-cute happened remains vague, although various accounts puts it somewhere between 19. In a 2007 interview with Charlie Rose, Jay said he met Bey “ten years ago” (so, 1997). But in a 2008 interview with Seventeen, Bey said, “I was 18 when we first met, 19 when we first started dating.” (She was born September 4, 1981, so this would put their first encounter in late 1999 or early 2000.) In honor of the epic saga that is Bey and Jay, Vulture takes a look back at the musical icons’ entertaining history together, beginning when she was Destiny’s Child’s front woman and Jay Z still had his hyphen, and charting their many collaborations (e.g., “Bonnie and Clyde,” “Drunk in Love”), the birth of Blue, the infamous elevator video, and onward, toward their now-uncertain future.ġ997–2000: While they weren’t the subject of relationship rumors until the October 2002 release of the Jay Z single “’03 Bonnie and Clyde,” the two had become acquainted through the music scene well before that. From the very start of their relationship, the two have been remarkably cryptic about their private life, managing to keep their most intimate aspects of their life sealed away despite being one of the world’s most talked-about couples. Then again, it’s always been hard to tell what’s going on with the Carters. With divorce rumors swirling around Jay Z and Beyoncé, it looks like the unthinkable might actually happen: Everybody’s favorite powerhouse duo may be headed for splitsville. We are reposting it in anticipation of Saturday’s HBO On the Run Concert. This article originally ran on July 23, 2014. Photo: Maya Robinson and Photos by Getty Images JAY-Z joins Beyonce on stage for ‘Crazy In Love’ at the “Chime For Change: The Sound Of Change Live” Concert at Twickenham Stadium on Jin London, England.