JAY Z PERFORMS FOR 19,000 PEOPLE 8 DAYS IN A ROW...WHERES THE LOVE?

[G.O.A.T Squad Spokesman]

jay should be at least bodie status

Did Bodie get points off the package? If so then he ain't bodie status. Poot did the hand to hands and moved the product. Bodie oversaw the operation, Jay is doing the hand to hand shyt for the Nets but he's not getting points off the package. Less than a percent ain't points off the package my nikka. Once again, in this sensitive ass "If you don't believe it you're a hater" climate we live in I have to preface every post with im not hating.

 

[Insensitive]

Plenty of rappers have money dog are we gonna celebrate em all? spent two million on a car bruh, are we gonna second line down broadway for that?

yeah a car and there are other wealthy rappers but few are doing it on
Jays level.
It isn't even remotely the same as starting successful businesses,
running labels, buying parts of (no matter how small) a team, selling out
a show for 8 days straight

That's some impressive stuff, no matter how you spin it.
Not to mention Nelly isn't nearly as visible or influential in Hip Hop
as Jay is., despite going platinum a year or two ago.

 

[G.O.A.T Squad Spokesman]

yeah a car and there are other wealthy rappers but few are doing it on
Jays level.
It isn't even remotely the same as starting successful businesses,
running labels, buying parts of (no matter how small) a team, selling out
a show for 8 days straight

That's some impressive stuff, no matter how you spin it.
Not to mention Nelly isn't nearly as visible or influential in Hip Hop
as Jay is., despite going platinum a year or two ago.

The only thing impressive about all this shyt is that he was able to sell out that many shows which I already agreed was a feat. But that's it. I'd if Eminem did the same in Detroit which I think he could do even with their fukked up economy.

 

[FlyRy]

yeah a car and there are other wealthy rappers but few are doing it on
Jays level.
It isn't even remotely the same as starting successful businesses,
running labels, buying parts of (no matter how small) a team, selling out
a show for 8 days straight

That's some impressive stuff, no matter how you spin it.
Not to mention Nelly isn't nearly as visible or influential in Hip Hop
as Jay is., despite going platinum a year or two ago.

this is the coli..if it was nas doing this there'd be 45 threads on the front page.

 

[G.O.A.T Squad Spokesman]

And the reason I said salute Magic Johnson more is because we actually feel the progress of his success. When I go to a Magic Johnson 24 hour fitness I see the employment of minorities that wouldn't have been there if he didn't invest his money to make it happen. Same goes for the Starbucks and Theaters he's brung to the hood. Barclays Center was gonna be there with or without Jay.

 

[Brooklynzson]

breh, have you been to barclays center? that shyt has jay-z written all over it...the russian has the money, he lets jay run wild with his resources..do you think jay isnt seeing crazy money from this? hes a figurehead...but he makes moves out here

ya think these cacs just let anyone with a million dollars join the team breh?

nikkas is missing the bigger picture.

 

[trollol]

And the reason I said salute Magic Johnson more is because we actually feel the progress of his success. When I go to a Magic Johnson 24 hour fitness I see the employment of minorities that wouldn't have been there if he didn't invest his money to make it happen. Same goes for the Starbucks and Theaters he's brung to the hood. Barclays Center was gonna be there with or without Jay.

why are you so mad jay is successful?

 

[tremonthustler1]

And the reason I said salute Magic Johnson more is because we actually feel the progress of his success. When I go to a Magic Johnson 24 hour fitness I see the employment of minorities that wouldn't have been there if he didn't invest his money to make it happen. Same goes for the Starbucks and Theaters he's brung to the hood. Barclays Center was gonna be there with or without Jay.

Barclays almost didn't happen because too many people were complaining about it. That and the economy compromised everything (this shoulda been done a couple of years ago to be honest).

Attaching Jay-Z to it was not a negative in any way. In fact, it had people coming around to the idea of arena there. Besides, it takes more than an arena to cause the gentrification that makes BK as bland as it is.

It's deeper than rap. Deeper than percentages. I'm not even from Brooklyn (thank God), but even I can understand why people are so happy to be on the map on this kinda level. It's hard to understand until it happens to you.

 

[G.O.A.T Squad Spokesman]

why are you so mad jay is successful?

And this is the reason you can't have an opinion contrary to popular culture in 2012.

 

[concise]

Can those impressed by the pic tell me the significance of it? Im aware it's of him in the projects overlooking the arena but does he own a significant percentage of the arena? Nelly owns next to nothing of the Bobcats so would a pic of him looking at the building impress you? Again im not hating but if you want to be impressed look at what Magic Johnson has done in business and that should inspire you to pick up a business book or 2. Jay only invested 1 million dollars into the nets and his percentage of the team reflects that. Magic put 50 million of his own money to join the Dodgers ownership group,think bigger ppl.

That pic looks so photoshopped.

Even if it is real, that's not the projects, since they're not even close, he's standing atop the Dunkin Dinuts across the corner.

 

[Harry B]

Those things are things that a marketing executive at a team would do anyway. That doesn't make it anymore significant, of course the Russian will allow him to do it because he's gonna cake as long as Jay stamps it. What im telling you is that Jay invested 1 million dollars into the team. 50 cent,Puff,Snoop or anybody else that's acquired enough finance and influence could do the same thing. It's not as if Jay invested a mill and his ownership stake reflects more than that. It's not like he invested 1 mill and owns 4% of the team. He invested a mill and owns less than 1% of the team. If you run around calling yourself an owner of any business you own less than a percent of you would be called a fraud.

1. Jay never called himself the owner, majority owner or anything like it. And when he refers to shyt it's referring to that he's on the board of directors.

2. Where is the proof that he invested 1 million dollars?
nikkas are ignorant cause they believe anything nikkas tell them. Articles by Forbes, CNN and NYT say different things and you choose the one that says the lowest percentage.

I mean if he did he's the smartest dude in history, how you gonna have your name everywhere, be on the board, present the arena, go to the meetings with the mayors and all that, take calls on how you want it to look, how you want the teams logo, shirts and all that to look, have your brands all over the arena and much more of a 1 million investment .. All pros of being an owner, none of the cons.

 

[G.O.A.T Squad Spokesman]

Barclays almost didn't happen because too many people were complaining about it. That and the economy compromised everything (this shoulda been done a couple of years ago to be honest).

Attaching Jay-Z to it was not a negative in any way. In fact, it had people coming around to the idea of arena there. Besides, it takes more than an arena to cause the gentrification that makes BK as bland as it is.

It's deeper than rap. Deeper than percentages. I'm not even from Brooklyn (thank God), but even I can understand why people are so happy to be on the map on this kinda level. It's hard to understand until it happens to you.

Okay so if Jay is as good of a businessman you all want to give him credit for being and if he's the main or huge reason the Barclays Center was able to be built in Brooklyn wouldn't he use that as leverage to get a larger percentage before contruction actually began there? So let's say they come to you and tell you that they need you in order to get a building built that will cost close to half a billion dollars, wouldn't you be smart enough to recognize that you could use that to your advantage and make them give you more equity in the arena or company moving into the arena? You can't have it both ways. You can't say he's this great businessman because he's responsible for the Barclays Center and then not look at the actual percentage of the company he owns. It doesn't make any sense. Master P had a interview about 4 years ago where he was saying the Hornets approached him to own a small piece of the team but he didn't want to own any crumbs and be a figurehead for some floor seats.

 

[tremonthustler1]

Okay so if Jay is as good of a businessman you all want to give him credit for being, if he's the main or huge reason the Barclays Center was able to be built in Brooklyn wouldn't he use that as leverage to get a larger percentage before contruction actually began there? So let's say they come to you and tell you that they need you in order to get a building built that will cost close to half a billion dollars, wouldn't you be smart enough to recognize that you could use that to your advantage and make them give you more equity in the arena or company moving into the arena? You can't have it both ways. You can't say he's this great businessman because he's responsible for the Barclays Center and then not look at the actual percentage of the company he owns. It doesn't make any sense. Master P had a interview about 4 years ago where he was saying the Hornets approached him to own a small piece of the team but he didn't want to own any crumbs and be a figurehead for some floor seats.

Don't put any words in my mouth. I just said he had a role. How big or small isn't even that big of a deal to the people there. To them, shyt got done and he had something to do with it.

And Jay-Z probably walked away alright. He gets a small stake in the team, a hand in the design (which they don't ask him to do if he didn't have a hand in an already successful clothing line), and the satisfaction of being someone who could help bring a team back to his borough for the first time in half a century. If he's cool with that, then I'm cool with not trying to count his money.

As for Master P, I'm still waiting on that TV station. I'm still waiting on that positive hip-hop label that was supposed to turn things around and bring the balance you want so much. Where is it? All I got were some ICDC college commercials and a track with Gucci Mane

 

[G.O.A.T Squad Spokesman]

1. Jay never called himself the owner, majority owner or anything like it. And when he refers to shyt it's referring to that he's on the board of directors.2. Where is the proof that he invested 1 million dollars?
nikkas are ignorant cause they believe anything nikkas tell them. Articles by Forbes, CNN and NYT say different things and you choose the one that says the lowest percentage.

I mean if he did he's the smartest dude in history, how you gonna have your name everywhere, be on the board, present the arena, go to the meetings with the mayors and all that, take calls on how you want it to look, how you want the teams logo, shirts and all that to look, have your brands all over the arena and much more of a 1 million investment .. All pros of being an owner, none of the cons.

1. He's the only minority owner in all of sports that's on billboards with the majority owner as if their equal partners. Go look at the pics of the billboards with him and the Russian, Usher ain't doing that shyt with Dan Gilbert.

2. I don't believe nikkas I believe the New York Times and the article was in the times where they say the exact percentage he owns in the team and the exact amount he invested in it.


The reason he's allowed to have his name on all of those things IS BECAUSE THE shyt SELLS. It makes more sense to put Kobe Bryant's face on a shoe box than it does Phil Knight right?

 

[Harry B]

1. He's the only minority owner in all of sports that's on billboards with the majority owner as if their equal partners. Go look at the pics of the billboards with him and the Russian, Usher ain't doing that shyt with Dan Gilbert.

2. I don't believe nikkas I believe the New York Times and the article was in the times where they say the exact percentage he owns in the team and the exact amount he invested in it.


The reason he's allowed to have his name on all of those things IS BECAUSE THE shyt SELLS. It makes more sense to put Kobe Bryant's face on a shoe box than it does Phil Knight right?

Forbes and CNN said other numbers as well, it was 1 journalist at NYT and no one confirmed it, no proof, nothing. Just quoting an old rumor from 2004 and calling it simple mathematics.

And of course, usher doesn't seem to have any involvement at all with the team. He might be a minority owner but he's not calling any shots or even watching the team play. And frankly no one gives 2 fukks about Cleveland and Ushers fans are usually not the ones that care about sports.


I can't discuss with you stupid haters, anyone who think he knows the exact number of how much Jay-z owns of the nets is stupid.
He could've invested another 10 million after 2004, how the fukk would you know? He might even own less. And lol, he's designing the logo cause it sells? He's names is on the seats cause it sells what? Ace of spades sells more than Dom P? He's in minor board meetings cause it sells? the fukk are you even talking about.