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I wish somebody like Pac was still around...
So people can watch his interviews and go back and do the same bull they were doing before?

People i believe that the backlash against Jay Z is because he is a black man with a business mindset, there's alot we can learn from him. I believe he is doing his best to show support, is easy to say what he should do or what he shouldn't do when your not put in the position he is. Jay Z is the perfect role model for any black man to follow, came from the hood, changed his lifestyle, got married and became a family man. As a business man he is doing everything every other business company does, but we can't stand him because he is not voicing OUR opinion? i saw a video on youtube where someone asked Jay Z to shout out Free Max B, and he didn't say anything, the title of the video was Jay is a hater, that's pretty much the something as saying he doesn't do enough just cause you think you would've done better if you were him.
 
Why can't Cole be using it for attention? He had a album drop no singles or promotion and could've used it for His album sales/image.
 
Why can't Cole be using it for attention? He had a album drop no singles or promotion and could've used it for His album sales/image.
cole wrote a heartfelt vulnerable song, then performed the said song in front of a crowd of old white people shocking everybody. it was confronting them face to face. because that same crowd are the ones usually saying we (black people) are exaggerating or playing victim. they choose to ignore it and he brought it to their doorstep in a way where they had to pay attention. that be free performance was incredible. be free also was not released on an album. it was just real. and u knew it. dont bring cole into this. anyways dead the convo cuz dudes cant be objective or choose to ignore points.

tidal check. anybody still using it? got an update?
 
Jay Z and Beyonce made thier way to Baltimore this weekend to support Prince’s #Rally4Peace concert, which was a tribute to the late Freddie Gray. During the festivities, The Carters took pictures with the families of Gray and Mike Brown as well backstage.

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Platinum-selling power couple Jay Z and Beyoncé joined the crowd demanding “Justice for Trayvon Martin” at a Manhattan rally on Saturday where the pair greeted the slain teen’s mother.

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Second is Jay-Z’s charitable project with The Shawn Carter Foundation. This foundation has raised millions of dollars for prospective college students, and created a toy & meal drive for Hurricane Sandy victims. My mentor, Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, once told me that he personally attended one of these fundraisers with Jay-Z and his mother where over $2,000,000 was raised in one night. This is not Jay-Z just showing up. He uses his foundation to call other people of influence to action.

While people criticized he and Kanye West for writing “luxury rap” during a recession with the video “Otis”, the Maybach that was smashed up was actually auctioned off to benefit victims of drought in East Africa.

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"The greatest form of giving is anonymous to anonymous."
-Jay Z lyric from "Nickels and Dimes"
I am generally skeptical of people who feel the urge to publicly call out what they perceive to be the lack of generosity of particular celebrities. In essence, sitting at their computers, people imagine it something like this: If I had the amount of money that Jay Z has in his bank account and even half of his influence, I'd be doing A, B, and C.

The thing is, it's just not that simple. You can't superimpose someone else's net worth on top of where you are today and then think of how much better you'd be if you had their cash and clout because if you had their cash and clout, you'd also have their challenges and concerns.

I have one tenth of 1 percent of the cultural influence of Jay Z and even less of his money, but those around me have already come to understand that when I do something as simple as retweet something they are doing, haters and racists and trolls come running out of their holes in droves to critique it. Having experienced this reality on a much harsher level for years, Jay Z, already known for being a fiercely private and even shy dude, opted for being an anonymous Robin Hood many moons ago.

Below the fold are some things that I am absolutely sure of about Jay's charitable endeavors that you probably didn't know.

Jay Z is meeting Today with New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to urge him to appoint a special prosecutor in the choking death of Eric Garner.

Jay has paid and is still paying for the tuition of the children of NYPD shooting victim Sean Bell.

Quietly, Jay has given financially to people working on the ground in Ferguson.

Quietly, Jay has supported justice for those discriminated against in the trans community.

Jay has paid to send HUNDREDS of high school students, who, by the way, are very often on the margins of society and actually have to have a GPA of 2.7 or below, through college.

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I was literally steps away from Jay Z and Beyonce at a rally for Trayvon in New York City. When they stepped on the scene, and the entire time they were there, they were all anyone cared about. The man on the mic at the time could've screamed "I have Ebola" and started spitting in every direction and people would've ignored him.

Instances like this, and dozens and dozens of others like it, seem to have caused Jay Z to feel that it's in everybody's best interest if he goes behind-the-scenes-incognito on his giving and his advocacy. It's easy for people without influence to think this is a blown opportunity and how if they were him, they'd do yadda, yadda, yadda, but Jay's attempted advocacy at the Brooklyn Nets game versus the Cleveland Cavaliers only further proves that when you are as influential as Jay Z, somebody is either going to find wrong in everything he does or find a way to make a story about justice no longer about justice but about Jay Z.

Long story short is this: NBA players have been showing their support for the family of Eric Garner by wearing T-shirts during warm-ups which state Garner's last words, "I Can't Breathe."

Nationally televised, and attended by both British royalty and American royalty (Jay Z and Beyonce), activists decided to get jerseys to the players to wear. A former investor in the Brooklyn Nets, activists made the shirts, and through several channels got them to Jay Z, who helped get the T-shirts to the players.

Proud, Jay Z took this photo with some of the players.

Jay Z with Brooklyn Nets players
Jay Z took the image with the players precisely to show his support of them and the message they were conveying. He was personally and directly connected to the activists who made it happen. The action that the activists planned was not about Jay Z, but about NBA players wearing the T-shirts before the game and it was a huge success. The media coverage of all of them wearing the T-shirts, on a night in which the story of the game and the British royal attendance alone could've dominated headlines, exceeded expectations.
Yet, now media pundits and cultural critics alike are using the fact that Jay Z didn't wear a T-shirt in the photo as commentary for how he could've gone harder for the cause and opted not to. Fundamentally, this is just misinformation. Jay Z helped make the designed action happen and successfully highlighted it without making himself the center of attention and ultimately detracting from the players who were making a bold step themselves. While it would've been cool to see Jay Z wear a statement shirt, that's what artists do. The NBA players were violating league rules by doing so and Jay Z, as he does well, knew where and how to stay in his lane on that evening.

Ultimately, the critique of Jay Z in this instance and in most instances where people complain that he doesn't do enough comes down to three main thoughts:

1. How people mistakenly think they'd know how they'd act if they were rich and famous.

2. The incorrect assumption that because you don't see Jay Z parading around giving life-size checks in photo ops that he must not be giving real money that deposits into real accounts.

3. The reality that Jay Z doesn't tweet or live his life on social media, but is a private artist and an even more private citizen who lobbies and gives and connects and networks and influences people and causes completely offline fuels people who think if it ain't on Twitter or Instagram it ain't real.

Ultimately, and this much I know, Jay Z doesn't care that you think he's not this or that. He damn sure doesn't care that you think he's not charitable because he isn't charitable to make you think he is, but because the dude wants to make a difference.

More of us should be this way.

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As much as I love Kendrick, he's nowhere close to Pac. Pac didn't give a flying **** and would say whatever to whomever, wherever he was. Kendrick isn't that guy. And that isn't a knock on him, either. It just is what it is.

Trust that if Pac were here, he'd be out there on the front lines with protestors and all over the media scaring the **** out of the majority.

A guy like him is what's been missing in hip-hop for a long *** time. Damn shame. :smh:
 
but he never said what he says doesn't matter. and what do u mean who is going to stop doing anything for jay? are u crazy? did u not see what he did to autotune with one song? do u see when he said "we drink crystal" and then subsequently "we dont drink crystal no more"? Did u see what happened when he mentioned hublots and audemars instead of rolexs? bruh cut that out. 

ur not even being realistic AND you dont make sense. how do u criticize someone for saying what jay says doesnt matter, then write a paragraph on how what jay says doesnt matter? o_O

matter of fact. just shut up.

Was I speaking to you? So your hostility is sort of baffling. Where's the emotion come from? Your hate of Jay-Z?

I make sense to anyone with any logical person with any sense of intelligence. And you seem to be lacking in both.

So you have a hublot and audemar, because of Jay-Z? You don't drink Cristal now?

Then you mention being realistic, when your go to is some overpriced stuff the average person doesn't buy? Wow, a bunch of rappers mention Hublot now. Jay-Z has changed the world.

And I'm not some little kid, make me shut up son
 
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Was I speaking to you? So your hostility is sort of baffling. Where's the emotion come from? Your hate of Jay-Z?

I make sense to anyone with any logical person with any sense of intelligence. And you seem to be lacking in both.

So you have a hublot and audemar, because of Jay-Z? You don't drink Cristal now?

Then you mention being realistic, when your go to is some overpriced stuff the average person doesn't buy? Wow, a bunch of rappers mention Hublot now. Jay-Z has changed the world.

And I'm not some little kid, make me shut up son
i make sense.... to anyone with any logical person, with any sense of intelligence?

yea hublot blew up and audemar did too. and how do u think u even know about those brands? how do u think tom ford blew up in the urban scene? why do u think nobody celebrates or buys bottles of cristal anymore? jay HAS changed the world. in many ways.

me?! hate jay z??? cut that out. dudes business moves are to be admired, studied, and reproduced so we all can eat. his music? lately? egh. dislike? not even the slightest. hate? cmon bruh....

and make you shut up?

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i can barely make it out clearly, but it looks like your jimmies have left orbit. yooooooooo 
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 dude said "make me"

you bout 2 seconds from

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you'll be iight "son"
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I honestly feel anytime an artist or a celeb for that matter does something in the public eye its a lose lose situation. Like people are really here nit picking how soon somebody chose to speak on an issue. Its like if he doesnt speak on it, he gets flack. then when he does, oh its not soon enough, or hes just using it to further his brand. We all have our own viewpoints on a situation, but I feel that once we get to pulling those type of cards thats just going overboard for real....
 
I wanna see some of yall take a logic and reasoning exam or sumtin man lol

Like the foundation of the argument against Jay is flawed to me.

If anyone of the dudes that oppose Jay's actions or lack of action were to a submit a proposal documenting what he should do, it would get picked apart for lack of effectiveness.
 
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I wanna see some of yall take a logic and reasoning exam or sumtin man lol

Like the foundation of the argument against Jay is flawed to me.

If anyone of the dues that oppose Jay's actions or lack of action were to a submit a proposal documenting what he should do, it would get picked apart for lack of effectiveness.
WTF?
 
I wanna see some of yall take a logic and reasoning exam or sumtin man lol

Like the foundation of the argument against Jay is flawed to me.

If anyone of the dues that oppose Jay's actions or lack of action were to a submit a proposal documenting what he should do, it would get picked apart for lack of effectiveness.
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Jay has gone out of his way to touch on black issues in his music since Kingdom Come. You can't find an album since KC where doesn't have a pro black track. It's sometimes cringe worthy how he forces it

Fool made a pro black freestyle with Jay Electronica talking about chasing white folks back into caves

:lol: **** yall want from this man?
 
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I wanna see some of yall take a logic and reasoning exam or sumtin man lol


Like the foundation of the argument against Jay is flawed to me.


If anyone of the dues that oppose Jay's actions or lack of action were to a submit a proposal documenting what he should do, it would get picked apart for lack of effectiveness.
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lol i am serious tho....

any of you dudes assuming everything will be much better if he did x y and z are being naive. I think the logic behind your opinion is flawed.


Jay has been trying to make marriage cool to the black man. How successful has he been at that? If he can make having a black family cool then I could see the other things happening too but nahhh
 
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