Editor keeping you in check lol

Jay-Z is the same guy that said he "gave Kanye 30 million without blinking" to get him out of debt, when in reality he owed Kanye that money from Tidal profits (after getting Kanye to drop his album exclusively on Tidal). He's always been an hyper-capitalist snake, just extremely smart and tactful with how he presents the information to the public.

Thing is Jay wanna be the Hero, while doing villain shit. Trying to be Goku when he's on some serving Frieza shit.

I really appreciate FD’s take on this. Jay and Bey need to stop it with the fake activism. They chose a side and it’s not to uplift poor disenfranchised Black folks. Period.

Remember when the players at University of Missouri threatened to sit out ONE game and got their school president fired? That was powerful.

“Black Faces in High Places” will not bring us to revolution nor liberation

Jay Z literally told on himself on Moment of Clarity when he said “if skills sold, truth be told I’d probably be lyrically Talib Kweli. Truthfully I wanna rhyme like Common Sense, but I did 5 mill, I ain’t been rhyming like Common since.”

Those few lines tell you everything you need to know about Jay’s mentality and motivations when it comes to black activism.

Beyond the Jay-Z stuff, I'm upset the stuff about medical malpractice hasn't been picked up by the media. Kaep highlighted multiple examples of team medical staff at all levels straight up lying to players to get them out on the field. It may not be surprising, it may be an "out in the open secret", but it is foul as hell and needs to be discussed until it doesn't happen anymore.

Jay-Z is the personification of the quote: "I was going to join the Black Panther Communist Party, but McDonald's was hiring that day", except with some ownership over the means of production.

Like many rappers, Jay-Z has always been about the money from day one. Anyone who admires him for being "successful" might as well admire Elon Musk. Black capitalism will not save us, etc...

Appreciate the self reflection, “maybe not watching football was the move.”

Comfort is a drug. Normal is a curtain that hides harm.

Unfortunately, eventually sacrifice will likely be necessary for change. Or at least an audit of our habits, patterns, and hobbies and their impacts.

Jay Z when it came to Barclays AND the NFL said, “if you give me a check I’ll say all black people are okay with what’s happening.”

Never been this early. I wanna give a shout-out to my parents.

Idk Jay-Z to have stood up for anything in my time alive, whereas I recognize Colin for sacrificing his career for other people’s betterment.

Damn, hes spilling it all, good for him, he didnt sell out, he can speak his truth

Let us not forget that in the E-Files there was an email sent to Jeffrey Epstein by former Barclays CEO Jes Staley. In the email, Staley engaged in a reductive analysis of why poor Americans were not taking to the streets to protest systemic injustices in the same way citizens were protesting in São Paulo, Brazil. Staley explicitly wrote: "you want to know why we are not São Paolo, watch the TV adds on the Superbowl. Its all about hip blacks in hip cars with white women. The group that should be in the streets, has been bought off. By Jay Z".

There was no direct connection tying Jay to Epstein so this email was largely ignored but I always thought to myself after reading this that if this guy so flippantly in a throw away email pretty much argued that American elites and pop culture spectacles—specifically championed by figures like Jay-Z—effectively commercialized and pacified Black political rage, keeping people from organizing protests, then it really should be obvious to all of us by now.

This is one of the things I love about our culture.

There seems to be a kind of subconscious collectivism in Black American culture that doesn't disappear when someone becomes wealthy. Wealthy Black people often enter what I’d call the “Explain Yourself Phase.”

You become rich, and immediately there’s a cultural expectation to explain what that wealth means, where it comes from, and what you intend to do with it. The questions aren't always stated explicitly, but come from an underlying suspicion of "Are you still one of us, or have you completely bought into the system?" It creates a scrutiny around wealthy Black people that isn't about their wealth, but about what their wealth represents.

You see this with Jay-Z and him repeatedly trying to explain his relationship with capitalism. He doesn't seem interested in taking the Magic Johnson or Oprah approach of strategically moving around those criticisms. Instead, he openly hugs the capitalist side of his identity and then spends outrageous effort explaining and defending it.

A lot of wealthy Black people use philanthropy, entrepreneurship, community investment, or other forms of cultural engagement to demonstrate that their success isn't entirely detached from the broader Black community (Another Black Tax; could be called the "Sellout Tax"). Those strategies can help soften the criticism, but they also reveal the underlying expectation that if you're going to be extremely wealthy, you have to demonstrate that you're still contributing to the collective. Even if it's superficial. Which it almost always is.

It's like a another Black tax. Wealthy Black people can feel pressure to prove that their wealth hasn't transformed them into someone who is completely committed to capitalism at the expense of everyone else.

And that's what makes Jay-Z funny. He appears determined to articulate and defend the idea of being an openly proud, unapologetic, and ruthless capitalist. He's essentially trying to talk his way out of the “sellout tax.” He loves money so much, he won't spend it on the fake philanthropy.

"You don't become a billionaire without stepping on a few backs" THANKYOU CHATTER!

No one expects Jay and the like to save the culture and be a different person than he’s shown us he is. However, I don’t believe it’s too much to ask that he not step on Kaps movement. He needs to apologize for the kneeling comment. Period

Josh Johnson is a very capable comedian but I think he’s found a niche where his act is more about using comedy to relieve the tension in society for his audience at a time where things are very tense rather than being the most laugh out loud comedian out there. Probably something less relevant to those of us who are more used to living in tension but I enjoy his artistry. Can’t watch when I’m tired though because that man will put me to sleep.