Ice-T has revealed JAY-Z approached him at the 2023 Grammy Awards and questioned him about a presumed beef over his song “99 Problems.”

While Hov’s 2004 Black Album cut remains one of his biggest hits, cracking the top 30 on the Billboard Hot 100 and going double platinum, the track’s iconic hook (“I got 99 problems, but a bitch ain’t one”) was actually borrowed from Ice-T’s 1993 original of the same name.

The connection between the two songs came back into focus last November when a video of the gangsta rap pioneer expressing his annoyance at JAY-Z apparently never acknowledging the source material resurfaced.

“Why has JAY-Z never said, ‘This is Ice-T’s song’? Show me some love!” he said in a 2014 interview with Radio.com. “That’s just another way of handling the situation. I handle the situation differently. If I use your music, I want to let people know.”

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