The NICU parents were eating cold soup from a vending machine and realizing that the perfect birth they imagined was not happening and what they really needed was some compassion and instead they got hassled - by your "staff." Those are the kinds of memories these new parents were making while you were hosting a catered lunch.
You need to be strong, because Daddy and I love you so much and we need you to be with us." Some babies are so sick they can't be handled, so their parents just gaze at them and whisper words of encouragement like, "C'mon buddy, you need to fight now. Some visitors are barred at the door if they show any sign of a sniffle or a cough - that is certain death for many of the babies in the NICU. Each visitor must scrub in like a surgeon before they're allowed in the nursery. When you're in the NICU, you get 2 maybe 3 visitors allowed at a time. These are the parents you had no regard for. When you're in the NICU it is almost unbearable to pass the "normal" parents in the halls who have the pleasure of choosing whether or not they want their baby in the room with them, choosing whether to breastfeed or bottle feed, or the worst: the parents taking large, robust babies home in adorable outfits with lots of photo ops while your child is still hooked up to machines and fighting to live. You know how right now you feel an overwhelming love for Blue mixed with a little fear, uncertainty and anxiety? Well, NICU parents feel that times a million and the last thing they need is more stress added to their already stressful lives by a couple of divas (you're one too, Jay-Z, don't deny it) who think no one else has ever given birth before.Īs a former NICU parent I can tell you how easy it is to flip flop back and forth between the excitement of having a new baby and the heart-stopping fear that your child is not well. Was it really necessary to lock down the entire floor and block parents from the NICU just so you could use the hallway? I get that you're big stars and you have to worry about security and whatnot, but there's no reason to be complete assholes.
I was glad to hear that you were able to have your friends and family (including your makeup artist) come and visit you and your new daughter and you were able to have a catered lunch.īut what I really want to talk to you about are the NICU parents sharing the hospital with you whose feelings you didn't take into account for one second. So I've written an open letter to Beyonce and Jay-Z and I really hope they read it.Ĭongratulations on the birth of your daughter. I was a NICU parent 7 years ago and I can't imagine being denied access to my kid because a celebrity also happened to give birth when I did. I read a lot over the last couple of days about Beyonce and Jay-Z's escapades at the hospital and it really made me upset. Is anybody else tired of celebrities being treated like royalty? Because I sure am. He’s got more bangers than just about anybody, but we took the time to narrow down the 100 best Jay-Z songs.UPDATE: This is the article I read that upset me. On every new LP or densely allusive guest verse, you get a peek behind the curtain at a life that took him from the Marcy Projects and a risky stint as a street hustler to a life of arena tours, huge business ventures, and a marriage with Beyoncé. 2…Hard Knock Life, that moved millions of units and put Jiggaman on a perch that he has scarcely budged from in the two decades since.įrom the career-defining The Blueprint to the premature farewell of The Black Album, and from the epic Kanye West collab project Watch The Throne to his first Album of the Year nod from the Grammys for 2017’s boldly personal 4:44, Jay-Z has become hip-hop’s premier album artist.
“ Reasonable Doubt was a classic, should’ve went triple,” but it didn’t–instead, it was his third album, 1998’s Vol. Jay didn’t release his first album until he was 26, an age by which many rappers are already washed up. His first recorded appearance, a split second cameo on mentor Jaz’s 1989 novelty “Hawaiian Sophie,” wasn’t exactly an auspicious debut on the level of Nas’ “Live at the Barbecue” verse. Shawn Corey Carter’s greatness wasn’t always a foregone conclusion, though. He outlived his closest peer, The Notorious B.I.G., and then proceeded to outwit and outlast every other rapper who went platinum in the 1990s. Jay-Z knows that in hip-hop, he’s in a category of his own–he has to go outside his own profession to find any comparison to his success, longevity, and technical proficiency. He calls himself the new Sinatra, rap’s Grateful Dead, and the Mike Jordan of recordin’.
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