Designer reveals why Solange Knowles attacked Jay-Z in 2014 elevator battle

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The infamous elevator fight between Jay-Z and Solange Knowles, the youthful sister of his spouse Beyoncé, is again within the highlight once more as a clothier uncovered the explanation for the highly-publicized conflict.

In Might 2014, a surveillance video leaked from the Normal Resort in New York through which Solange was seen bodily attacking Jay-Z in an elevator with Beyoncé standing beside them. The video was revealed by TMZ and quite a few rumors swirled about why Solange had violently confronted her brother-in-law after the trio attended the 2014 Met Gala.

Throughout a brand new interview with the Daily Mail , Oscar G. Lopez claimed that Solange turned enraged after witnessing an interplay between Jay-Z and clothier Rachel Roy, who has been accused of getting an affair with the rapper. Lopez, who created Roy's 2014 Met Gala robe, stated that Solange was offended after Jay-Z praised the gown.

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"I feel that Jay complimented her concerning the robe and Beyoncé's sister felt that it was not correct, so it was a sort of a drama there," Lopez stated.

A clothier has revealed the explanation behind Jay-Z's notorious elevator incident with Beyonce's sister Solange Knowles. (TMZ / BACKGRID; Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic; Neilson Barnard/Getty Photographs)

Within the video, which didn't have audio, Solange was seen kicking and punching Jay-Z as a bodyguard tried to restrain her. Jay-Z was not seen retaliating in opposition to Solange however as a substitute raised his arms to dam her blows and backed away from her into the wall of the elevator.

In the meantime, Beyonce stood nonetheless within the nook of the elevator and didn't intervene.

Inside hours of the video's launch, the incident made worldwide headlines and dominated social media.

Lopez instructed the Each day Mail that the widespread protection of the incident helped enhance his enterprise. He defined that Roy was "late" to the occasion on the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork and missed being photographed on the pink carpet within the robe that he made for her.

Roy is pictured on the 2014 Met Gala. (Billy Farrell/BFA/Shutterstock )

Nevertheless, Lopez recalled that "the dress was all over the news " following the scandal.

"Any press is nice press," he stated. "It is good that folks discuss you."

"Typically you profit from a scandal, not even being a part of it in a really direct means," Lopez continued. "Let's simply name it a collateral harm. It was meant to be."

He went to inform the Each day Mail that he and Roy laughed concerning the hypothesis that she was having an affair with Jay-Z. Lopez stated that they thought the rumors have been "so foolish" because of Roy's earlier marriage to Jay Z's former pal and Roc-A-Fella Information co-founder Damon Sprint.

Fox Information Digital has reached out to representatives for Jay-Z, Beyonce, Solange and Roy for remark.

The couple, who married in 2008, are seen on the 2014 Met Gala. (Neilson Barnard/Getty Photographs)

Roy and Sprint have been married from 2004 to 2009. The 2 met whereas she was working at Rocawear, the clothes model created by Jay-Z and Sprint. Roy started her profession as an intern on the firm earlier than rising via the ranks to develop into Artistic Director for Rocawear ladies’s line.

Instantly after the elevator incident on Might 5, 2014, Beyoncé and Solange left the lodge collectively in a single car whereas Jay-Z departed individually. Per week later, TMZ revealed the surveillance video and the Normal Resort introduced that they'd launched an investigation into the leak.

On Might 14, the lodge confirmed that an worker had been fired for leaking the video.

A day later, Jay-Z, Beyonce and Solange broke their silence in a joint assertion to the Related Press.

Solange is pictured on the 2014 Met Gala. (Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic)

"There was an excessive amount of hypothesis about what triggered the unlucky incident," the However a very powerful factor is that our household has labored via it," they wrote. "Jay and Solange every assume their share of accountability for what has occurred. They each acknowledge their function on this non-public matter that has performed out within the public. They each have apologized to one another and we now have moved ahead as a united household."

"The experiences of Solange being intoxicated or displaying erratic conduct all through that night are merely false," the assertion continued. "On the finish of the day households have issues and we're no completely different. We love one another and above all we're household. We have put this behind us and hope everybody else will do the identical."

In 2017, Jay-Z addressed the incident with Solange throughout an look on the "Rap Radar" podcast.

"We had one disagreement ever. Earlier than and after we’ve been cool," he stated. "She’s like my sister. I'll shield her. That’s my sister, not my sister-in-law. My sister. Interval."

The "Empire State of Thoughts" singer famous that siblings fight .

"I fought my brothers and argued with my brothers my complete life," Jay Z stated. "It simply so occurs, who we're, this stuff go into a unique area. However it ain’t nothing."

"We’ve all the time had a terrific relationship," he stated.

Roy and Sprint have been married from 2004 to 2009. (Johnny Nunez/WireImage)

In the meantime, Roy poured gas on the hypothesis of an affair between herself and Jay-Z after Beyonce alluded that the rapper had been untrue in her album "Lemonade," which was launched in April 2016.

The album featured the music "Sorry" which included the lyrics, "He solely need me once I’m not there. He higher name Becky with the great hair.’’

Roy later posted a photograph of herself on Instagram, writing, "Good hair don’t care, however we are going to take good lighting, for selfies, or self truths, all the time. Reside within the mild #nodramaqueens."

After an outpouring of on-line backlash from Beyonce's followers, Roy deleted the put up and made her Instagram account non-public.

She later wrote on X, previously Twitter, "I respect love, marriages, households and power. What shouldn’t be tolerated by anybody, it doesn't matter what, is bullying, of any form."

Roy directly denied that she was the lady behind the notorious lyric in an interview with Folks journal.

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"I need to put the hypothesis and rumors to relaxation. My Instagram put up was meant to be enjoyable and lighthearted, it was misunderstood as one thing apart from that," Roy instructed People . "There is no such thing as a validity to the concept that the music references me personally. There is no such thing as a reality to the rumors."

Jay-Z has stated that he and Solange are very shut. (Christopher Polk/Getty Photographs for NARAS)

In his 2017 album "4:44," Jay Z admitted to dishonest on Beyoncé and expressed his regret. He additionally referenced his alleged mistress "Becky" in his music "Household Feud," which featured the lyrics, "Let me alone Becky."

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On the identical album, he additionally referred to the elevator incident in his music "Kill JAY-Z."

"You egged Solange on/ Knowin' all alongside, all you needed to say you was incorrect," Jay-Z sings to himself at one level within the music.

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In an interview with David Letterman in 2018 for his Netflix present, "My Subsequent Visitor Wants No Introduction," Jay-Z defined how he and Beyoncé had overcome their marital issues together with his infidelity.

"I've a stupendous spouse who is knowing and knew that I’m not the worst of what I’ve accomplished," he stated. "And like we did the exhausting work of going to remedy and, you understand, actually – we love one another, proper? So we actually put within the work."