Everyone’s favourite couple Beyoncé and Jay Z have just celebrated their sixth wedding anniversary. Mazel tov! But despite all that time as a couple in the public eye, we still don’t really know that much about the uber private couple. They’re not giving anything up to the press, so what can we actually learn about Bey and Jay’s relationship from what they say about each other in their music?
Jay Z totally changed for Bey.
Jay Z on Beyoncé in ‘Excuse Me’
‘Everybody's like, ‘He's no item! Please don't like him. He don't wife 'em, he one nights 'em!' Now she don't like him, she never met him/ Groupies try to take advantage of him, he won't let 'em/ He don't need 'em, so he treats 'em like he treats 'em, Better them than me, she don't agree with him/ She's mad at that, he's not havin that, So those opposites attract like mag-a-nets’
Jay Z on Beyoncé in '03 Bonnie & Clyde
‘All of my dates been blind dates/ But today, I got my thoroughest girl with me/ I'm mashing the gas, she's grabbing the wheel, it's trippy how hard She rides with me.’
Jay Z on Beyoncé in That's How You Like It
‘I know you've heard I'm a gangst / They say 'Stay away from them gangstas'/ They never change up, or pull they pants up/ Well, baby girl, put ya foot down/ Don't let' em push you around, you know what you like/ Baby thug, you know wrong from right. Most of all, they like my honesty, integrity, my loyalty/ Young Hova and the letter B, how you like that, huh?’
And she kind of changed too
Jay Z on Beyoncé in Part II (On the Run)
‘She was a good girl, 'til she knew me.’
Jay is super supportive of Bey’s career (even when she ignores him)
Jay Z on Beyoncé in Lost One
‘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/ So, we, ain't we, it's me and her/ 'Cause what she prefers over me, is work/ And that's where we differ, so I have to give her free time, even if it hurts.’
Beyoncé on Jay Z in Flaws and All
‘I neglect you when I'm working, when I need attention I tend to nag/ I'm a host of imperfection, and you see past all that/ I'm a peasant by some standards, but in your eyes I'm a queen/ You see potential in all my flaws, and that's exactly what I mean.’
They REALLY likes how each other’s clothes
Beyoncé on Jay Z in That's How You Like It
‘I need a thug that'll have my back/ Do-rag, Nike Airs to match, ain't nothin' wrong with that/ That's how I like it, baby, where my thugs at? White T-Shirt, I love that, Timberland boots, you does that, it's a fact/ That's how I like it, baby’
Jay Z on Beyoncé in 30 Something
‘Ya chick shop at the mall, my chick burnin' down Bergdorf's/ Comin' back with Birkin bags, ya chick is like, “What type of purse is that?”’
Jay Z on Beyoncé in That’s My Bitch
How can somethin' so gangsta be so pretty in pictures/ Ripped jeans and a blazer and some Louboutin slippers/ Uh, Picasso was alive he woulda made her/ That's right, n---a, Mona Lisa can't fade her.’
Jay doesn’t really like you looking at Bey's boobies
Jay Z on Beyoncé in H.A.M
‘Fuck wrong with these dudes? Try to walk around in these shoes/ See the shit I saw growing up/ Then maybe you could take a peek at Bey's boobs.’
Because they’re just for him. They have GREAT sex.
Jay Z on Beyoncé in Picasso Baby
‘I wanna Rothko, no I wanna brothel/ No, I want a wife that f--k me like a prostitute/ Let's make love on a million, in a dirty hotel / With the fan on the ceiling/ All for the love of drug dealing.’
Beyoncé on Jay Z in Rocket
Your love feels like all four seasons growing inside me/ Life has a reason, swimming in my love, your love lifting/ Higher, harder, got me screaming to the Lord, boy, Kiss me.’
Beyoncé on Jay Z in Drunk in Love
Boy, I'm drinking, get my brain right, Armand de Brignac, gangster wife/ Louis sheets, he sweat it out like washrags, he wear it up/ Boy, I'm drinking, I'm singing on the mic to my boy's toys, then I fill the tub up halfway then ride it with my surfbort.’
And in case you were in any doubt about how drunk in love these two are with each other, check out theintricasies of their favourite sex move. That takes dedication. We’re not at all jealous.
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.