Before appearing on Oprah this year, rapper and businessman Jay-Z had been hush-hush about his seven-year relationship with fellow hip hop superstar Beyonce Knowles. Even Jay and B’s nuptials were kept secret from their friends last year.
But now the former drug dealer has become so crazy in love with Beyonce that he is contemplating altering his name from Shawn Corey Carter to Shawn Knowles-Carter to preserve Beyonce’s family name.
Jigga what?

Beyonce’s parents, Mathew and Tina Knowles, had Beyonce and her younger sister Solange, so they don’t have a boy to carry on their name, and Tina recently filed for divorce from her husband of 29 years.
Beyonce already preserves her mother’s maiden name, Beyince, and her and her mother have created the House of Dereon clothing line in honor of her grandmother, Agnes Dereon, who designed clothes for church alter boy, family and friends.

Now Jay-Z is becoming a family man by doing his part to preserve his wife’s heritage. He deserves credit because some guys have so much ego that they expect their wives to drop their maiden name and they balk at their bride hyphenating her maiden name with theirs.
But as hard as Jay-Z tries to portray, he has a soft spot for his wife and has proven that a real man does his best to make his wife happy.
If Jay follows through with his name change, Beyonce’s name would change from Beyonce Giselle Knowles to Beyonce Knowles-Carter.
And by combining their names, there may be some truth to speculation that Jay and B are planning to start a family.

By Teneshia LaFaye
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