Once again, JAY-Z is getting up close and personal on Tidal, releasing a new video on Friday in which he opens up about his ongoing beef with Kanye West by declaring that Yeezy “knows he crossed the line.”

JAY-Z and West had been friends for a long time, and have collaborated on numerous tracks over the years. In the interview, West discusses his track “Kill JAY-Z”, which opens his “4:44” album and references his dispute with West, which leads him to discuss their beef.

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“It’s not even about Kanye, it really isn’t. His name is there, just because it’s just the truth of what happened,” he says. “But the whole point is, ‘You got hurt because this person was talking about you on a stage.’ But what really hurt me was — you can’t bring my kids and my wife into it. Kanye’s my little brother. He’s talked about me 100 times. He made a song called ‘Big Brother.’ We’ve gotten past bigger issues. But you brought my family into it, now it’s a problem with me.”

JAY-Z is no doubt referring to West’s infamous onstage rant, shortly before he cancelled his “Saint Pablo Tour” and was subsequently hospitalized, in which Yeezy referenced his infamous interruption of Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech at the 2009 MTV VMAs to declare that Beyonce should have won instead of Swift.

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“I went down seven years on behalf of you,” West said of the public scorn he received after the incident.

“Beyonce, I was hurt because I hear that you said you wouldn’t perform unless you won Video of the Year over me and over ‘Hotline Bling.’” West added, apparently hinting that Beyonce’s win at the VMAs (in a category in which he and Drake were also nominated) was somehow fixed. “In my opinion — now don’t go dissing Beyonce, she’s great. Taylor Swift is great. We are all great people. We are all equal. But sometimes we be playing the politics too much and forget who we are just to win.”

In his Tidal interview, JAY-Z continues to call out West: “That’s a real, real problem. And he knows it’s a problem. He knows that he crossed the line,” he adds. “I know him. He knows. I know he knows, because we’ve never let this much space go between one of our disagreements, and we’ve had many, because that’s who we are. That’s what I like about him. He’s an honest person, he’s open and he’ll say things and he’s wrong a lot of times and he’ll confront it.”

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Meanwhile, in another part of the interview, JAY-Z talks about the always-controversial LaVar Ball, a former NBA star (and father of Lakers point guard Lonzo Ball), whose over-the-top statements and wild claims continue to make headlines.

JAY-Z, however, says he supports Ball and his Ballers line of sneakers — admitting he bought three pairs. Watch:

If you’re a Tidal subscriber, you can watch JAY-Z’s entire interview right here.