asking for a friend...

He's a-ight as a successful person trying to make an impact here and there.

https://youtu.be/12e4v-XlCmk

...he’s been sonned too many times.

n/m

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I’m still all in on the raps.

And I’m never woke enough to make up in my mind what rich dudes are supposed to do to earn my praise for their personal shit. I AM getting to be more focused on how I can’t count on elected folks to do what they’re allegedly supposed to be doing.

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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

I think OKP stopped hating Jay after Lupe's 1st album.

But I don't.

It's weird.

Still do.
Why? There is too much to type as to why."my presence is charity enough". Trying to sht on Harry Belafonte. Those are good starts.

And Harry Belafonte is fine enough with him to have him as part of his birthday party. You can let this beef go.

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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

Jay-Z is not my kinda of person.
Ignorant and arrogant. They are helluva drugs.

lol....my click bait assed hot take...but really...
Jack Dorsey did just buy a majority stake in tidal.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/4/22313108/square-inc-tidal-majority-stake-jack-dorsey-jay-z


"Get ready....for your blessing....."
"Bury me by my Grand-Grand and when you can come follow me"

it's the digital asset the most people are already accustomed to paying for.

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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

Time for another 4:44 album.

Black capitalist bullshit.
Miss me with all that
"I coulda bought a building in dumbo..."
"You wanna know what's more important than throwin' away money at a strip club? Credit"
And "we've moved past kneeling"
shit he be talking.

Pure ignorance and arrogance.

>Black capitalist bullshit.
>Miss me with all that
>"I coulda bought a building in dumbo..."
>"You wanna know what's more important than throwin' away money
>at a strip club? Credit"
>And "we've moved past kneeling"
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how can you hate what he represent but don’t hate his music? that’s like all he rapped about...

am I tripping? lol

his view seems to be that money fixes everything and that just ain't true. racism will still exist.

not sure how it became about Jay and Bey saving Black people or ending racism.

if anything he is saying racism is still alive but you can get a small slice of the pie if you invest in some shit instead of consuming it

now, I know he spent years telling people to consume but I felt like 4:44 was his grown man album.

but my main gripe about the knock people have on 444 is acting like Jay only raps to broke ass black people. A lot of Jays fans are old af with jobs and 401K’s and shit.

no issue with somebody growing, but some of the messaging sounded like republican talking points.

dude was saying instead of buying that.. why not buy this?

and he was right.

I know that shit hurts but is it really a republican talking point to tell dudes to stop stunting and start investing?

is that really a bad thing to say?

I’m 40 and some change.. all my people are having the “fellas, where should I put this money? How can I set myself up for retirement? What stocks are you into these days” type convos on the group chats. These were the same dudes on some “where the hoes at my nigga” 15 years ago.

So nah.. I’m not buying that Republican talking points when our people try to talk to each other like fucking adults instead of kids..

seems like all people want to hear is how the man did us wrong and we cant do shit but complain about it.

rant over

its sounds like I'm rich and can invest in paintings. you should too! that's not the same as buying a stock. while the rich people talk is attractive to some, it's off putting to others.

he's was stunting his whole career. just stunting about different stuff.

thats not Jay’s fault.

its just an example of investing instead of consuming.

I dont think he is telling anyone to buy Dumbo buildings or million dollar paintings. Not sure why anyone would take his raps literally

I get why people like that album. I get why ya'll think it's "grown"
But no, for me, what's better than one billionaire is zero billionaires. Selling that kind of "aspirational" shit to people when you're "grown" is ridiculous.

Ace of Spade too
Tidal benefits Artists
never in a million years would we have seen Jazmine Sullivan singing at a super bowel. While I love her not many of my family and friends know of her...

it doesn’t seem reasonable to like his music but dislike the man he’s becoming.

but I don’t give a shit about her singing at a SB when it comes to Jay’s accomplishments.

you really putting a lot of weight on that one.. lol

of fame aren't who they normally showcased. they tend to have big timers performing because they hope to get more eyes on the game and show. yeah, good on Jay for that. maybe she got some more streams from it afterwards.

he's doing good things. no knock on that. just the messaging that was mentioned earlier isn't always correct.

NFL doesn’t pay them because of the exposure they receive.

but I'm not sure the label's involvement. for an artists like Sullivan, who not everyone knows, that exposure is a come up.

and then when he trys to correct it buy trying to kick a little financial knowledge NOW you want to hate him? SMH.

Can't win. The Superbowl stuff was a gaffe and I absolutely hated the young misogynistic, materialistic Jay-Z but I appreciate the dude as the most evolution in one rapper in the course of a career.


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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

thats why they hate him..

got out of half of Ace of Spades and dumped Tidal all in the last week. That's a wild influx of cash all at once.

People spending millions for .gifs. SOmeone has told jay or he is figured out its a good time to convert to cash, let the bubble pop, and swoop in and buy back assets for cheap.

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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

we = Black folk

that made it THAT far simply because he literally had no blueprint to follow. There was none before him. So of course he's stumbling his way through this shit.

He's going to fuck up a lot.

And there is no right way for him to be black and THAT successful such that everyone is happy.

Motherfuckers on my timeline talking about Jay should do this or that, he's a failure, yadda yadda yadda and couldn't run a successful lemonade Stand