The event seems to have occurred around the time when Jay-Z and Beyoncé’s relationship started to take a serious turn.
According to a People article, Beyoncé told Seventeen magazine that she first met Jay-Z when she was eighteen, which was between September 1999 and August 2000.
“We were friends first for a year and a half before we went on any dates,” Beyoncé said to Oprah Winfrey on OWN in 2013.
For a year and a half, we spoke on the phone, and a relationship’s foundation is crucial. It’s very crucial to have someone you like and [who] is trustworthy.
Jay-Z told Vanity Fair magazine that they “were just beginning to try to date each other” when they appeared together on the magazine’s cover in November 2001.
