HBO’s The Shop: Uninterrupted returns on Friday (May 28) featuring an interview with Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee JAY-Z. Ahead of the premiere, HBO shared a brief snippet in which JAY-Z confesses he would routinely forget the words to his own songs.

“In the beginning, I used to get on the stage and just forget all my lyrics,” he replied after LeBron James asked if he had ever been “so zoned out” during a performance he didn’t even notice the audience.

In 2013, JAY-Z infamously forgot the lyrics to “No Church In The Wild” while performing the Watch The Throne track in Manchester, England during the Magna Carter World Tour opener. Jay fudged the line “Cocaine seats, all white like I got the whole thing bleached” by forgetting the “cocaine seats” part — then lost his rhythm.

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