While attending the 2024 Kentucky Derby, Beyonce’s mom, Tina Knowles, 70, made rare comments about the music icon and Jay-Z’s twins, Rumi and Sir.
“Rumi is amazing, an amazing artist, painter and creator. How could they be anything else growing up in that environment? All we talk about is creativity and fashion,” the designer gushed to a reporter.
Tina noted her grandson is much different, revealing Sir is “very, very smart” but more on the “quiet” side.
“He does all of the numbers stuff, so he’s not into fashion as much,” the matriarch noted.
Tina also touched on how much she’s been loving Cowboy Carter and Beyonce’s latest country music era.
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“We’re from Texas. We’ve been part of that culture for a long time, and I was very excited about it. She has this way of doing things subtly but educating, and so I’m really proud of that,” she said.
The businesswoman is also a granny to the power couple’s oldest daughter, Blue Ivy Carter, 12, and Solange Knowles’ son, Daniel Julez J. Smith Jr., 19.
After Blue joined the Love on Top singer, 42, as a dancer on her Renaissance World Tour, Tina publicly expressed how happy she was to see the two on stage together.
“Well, this is a heels family. You’re trained early to walk in heels,” she admitted in a 2023 interview. “But yeah, she’s having the time of her life, and I couldn’t be more proud of her because she really worked hard.”
In a related occurrence about her family, Beyonce’s mother lashed out at those who made shady comments about the superstar’s appearance at the premiere of Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé last year.
The matriarch took to Instagram and said she was fed up with “all of the stupid ignorant self-hating racist statements about her, lightening her skin and wearing platinum hair wanting to be white.
“She does a film, called The Renaissance, where the whole theme is silver with silver hair, a silver carpet, and suggested silver attire and you bozos decide that she’s trying to be a white woman and is bleaching her skin?” she questioned. “How sad is it that some of her own people continue the stupid narrative with hate and jealousy.”
Tina said it was “really sad” that a white reporter from TMZ reached out to Beyoncé’s hairstylist and told the beauty guru “that the fans are saying that she wants to be white.”
“That made my blood boil, that this white woman felt so entitled to discuss her blackness,” she said.