It’s a situation where just as you think your music career is about to take off, you see it come to an immediate stop. Fortunately for Benny Blanco, he’s lived to tell his tale.
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Blanco was recently interviewed by Apple Music’s Zane Lowe and shared an incredible story about the time he was invited to hang out with Beyoncé and JAY-Z at their house in the Hamptons.
The story takes place around 2010-2011 and Blanco found himself in a beat battle, at the request of Beyoncé, with JAY-Z. Jay was freestyling in Blanco’s ear, which is a situation we would have loved to have seen.
While he had a great time at the house, he recalled feeling awkward when it was time to leave. When he was saying farewell to Bey, Blanco said “I remember I go in for the hug, okay? And then, I’m like, oh, I’m going to kiss her on the cheek.”
“I went to do like, kiss on the cheek, and I guess we just missed a little bit. And just like, I definitely hit the corner of some sort of lip. I’m sitting there, and as I’m doing it, out of the corner of my eye, JAY-Z is right there looking at me. And I’m just like, my lip is here. Hers is there, and there’s definitely some corner things are happening. And I look at Jay and I’m like, ‘Oh, okay. I’m dead. My life is over. It was great. Nice knowing you guys.’”
Blanco thought it was all over after that. “My life flashed before my eyes,” he said.
Fortunately for him, neither Bey or JAY seemed to notice or care and he was able to make it out unscathed.
“No one noticed, she didn’t,” he added with a sigh of relief.
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