Tina Knowles-Lawson Reveals How She Defended JAY-Z After a Woman Called Him a 'Gangster Rapper'
Beyoncé, Tina Knowles -Lawson and JAY-Z.Photo: KMazur/WireImage for NARAS Tina Knowles-Lawsonwill never forget the moment a flight attendant confronted her on a plane and criticized her for allowing her daughter Beyoncé to marryJAY-Z. “I can remember getting on a plane and an older white woman saying, ‘Oh, your son[-in-law] is a gangster rapper, right? How did you let himmarry your daughter?'” the mother and grandmother, 68, remembers. Knowles-Lawson recalls the conversation inProfiled: The Black Man, a new Discovery+ docuseries, which challenges the negative popular stereotypes about African American men....