JAY Z : "Why do we get so upset when we, as a culture, want to start our own shyt?"

[ridedolo]

Maybe the problem is Jay-z.He has a history of being self serving at the expense of black people.

1.Spent 25 years promoting the drug culture to black people.
2.Spent 25 years letting white people think it was okay to say the word nikka.
3.Was quick to defend G.Paltrow when she said some offensive shyt.
4.Let a russian billionaire use him as a pawn to secure a land deal in Brooklyn.
5.Pretended to be the majority owner of the NJ Nets when he only own 1/15th of 1%.....Then sold his share only one year after the nets moved to Brooklyn.
6.Has attempted to block his competition from eating/shining on many occasions.
7.When he was president of Defjam,he promoted himself more than he did the artist.
8.Tried to guilt black people into subscribing to Tidal.
9.Doesn't let Beyonce work with Rappers who he feels are a threat.
10.Allegedly replaced a Andre 3000 verse that was on a Beyonce song.

Jay-z has a questionable track record......it's understandable why black people would side eye him as a business man.

Side eye a billionaire about their business acumen brehs

Single jay z out brehs

 

[AintNoCrampInYaMouthTho]

I dont give a fukk what Jay z says. Lavar Ball still ain't getting a lick of my money. And do folks keep attaching these pro black to Lavar, when he himself ain't never said that shyt.
Be the same muthafukkas shytting on Jordan and black folks spending money on jays but big up lavar and call black folks c00ns, and bytches for not buying them ugly ass expensive shoes brehs
Hope the same brehs be this supportive when Serena wanna own her own Tennis line or some shyt.

 

[Mars]

I support black people who support the black diaspora.

Rocnation sold
Beats by Dre sold
Defjam sold
Bet sold

How did any of the money from these sold companies help black people ? we build the value of these companies up,then they sell them off without re-investing the money into the black diaspora.

I'm tired of supporting negros who turn around and sell their companies to corporations

 

[J-Fire]

It's not black business unless you hiring from the community.

When jay gonna lay them off and bring it to the USA & hire black computer science degree holders!?!? Hiring 30% black would send a huge message to silicon valley & expose the phony!

 

[Mars]

Lets

Side eye a billionaire about their business acumen brehs

Single jay z out brehs

Lol...when did Jay-z become a billionaire ? and how has his billion dollars impacted black people ?......Jay-z's business acumen is overrated......why is he getting in his feelings over black people not supporting him ?....great business men don't act like this.

 

[Kenny West]

Being pro black is popular now so jayz is using it to sell products.

negged

Jay has been black all his life. And has sold products/ran business for as long as I can remember. Owned Dusse, Rocawear, 40/40 club, all of this way before " being pro black became popular". He became a multimillionare without problackness.

I hate when fakkits like yall act like it's some type of "aha!" moment when you suggest the man could make money if we supported each other. Like you found out his dirty little ulterior motive or some shyt. "b-b-but you only want us to support each other so you can make money" Even if that were true, SO THE fukk WHAT? nikkas talk like they go to their jobs and scrub toilets for good vibes. fukk outta here.

Like yo.....Jay and his family are set for life. We as regular folk have way more to gain from group economics than a celebrity multimillionare.

I think it's time for you fukks to admit that yall loathe the idea of a black man making legal money without being a subordinate to someone white. I'd say this forum is full of agents but nikkas really think like this irl with emotions like envy and hatred mixed in as well.

 

[Hacksaw Jim Thuggin]

Like those other brands you named, BBB is potentially bad for our community for the same reason. Opportunity for foolish spending.

Furthermore, let's be real, like I said in my other post I fukks with Var but this nikka ain't no freedom fighter. He's married to a cac and looking out for him and his. Then he's gonna go spend with cacs his damn self so in reality this money is all going back to whitey eventually.

So props to him for getting his but let's not act like coppin some Zo 2's makes one a revolutionary. There's black businesses and there's businesses owned by black people. I think Lavar Ball just happens to be black.

Lavar's biggest asset to the community is hopefully empowering young athletes and entrepreneurs. But when it comes to supporting black business, we need to support black businesses that support black businesses as well. That's how the money STAYS in the community.

great point....

 

[Hacksaw Jim Thuggin]

Jay z sounds dumb as hell on this point. Black people don't sit back and purposely NOT support brands because they're ran by us

Look around in the room you're in, everything you see has a CEO behind it, and without using google you couldn't name 5 of em

That's how it's supppse to be..company CEO's shouldn't be out front trying to be the stars - you see that ever now and then (papa john's) and it's usually AFTER they've become CEOS and the brand is successful

i see you know nothing about BRANDING and MARKETING

the only reason Jay got in rooms was because he's Jay....thats branding.....im doing the same thing right now with my business (nowhere near jays level though)...you sell yourself until people get an idea of who you are and what youre doing....thats marketing....

THEN you step back and let the product speak for itself....

shyt is business 101....not all businesses work like this but a lot do

 

[ajnapoleon]

Once again a person have to be perfect to send a message





A person can't live life without learning from mistakes


Those mistakes will be dug up with such glee



Like I said the thrist for the exposal is way more important than the message



I will never understand it



Someone got to the perfect but that person will never come because we are all flawed

 

[Booker T Garvey]

i see you know nothing about BRANDING and MARKETING

the only reason Jay got in rooms was because he's Jay....thats branding.....im doing the same thing right now with my business (nowhere near jays level though)...you sell yourself until people get an idea of who you are and what youre doing....thats marketing....

THEN you step back and let the product speak for itself....

shyt is business 101....not all businesses work like this but a lot do

well first of all you completely ignored my point about Jay-z being wrong about black folks purposely NOT buying from people because they're black
ATLANTA is proof that this isn't true at all.

but FOH with this mixtape rapper hood logic...who needs branding when you're the CEO of hand sanitizer company or degree deodarant?

are the CEO's of those companies shuffling all over CNBC? yelling about how great they are?


most CEO's are really just private citizens, the general public could care less WHO these muthafukkas are - you put a good product out, market it, and reap the rewards

so when you have a lavar ball out here JJ Walkering it up, he looks foolish

to put it in a perspective you can understand: why doesn't Jordan appear in his own commercials or even TALK about his own product?

 

[Gravity]

well first of all you completely ignored my point about Jay-z being wrong about black folks purposely NOT buying from people because they're black
ATLANTA is proof that this isn't true at all.

at this clown denying that a lot of blacks suffer from the "white man's ice is colder" mentality. Atlanta isn't proof of anything that you're saying. Black don't own shyt in Atlanta which is why they're being gentrified out just like in other cities across the country.

https://www.google.com/amp/www.ajc....d-out-atlanta/xssB4QcXdmbMqq27OoJk0M/amp.html

 

[ORDER_66]

I've just read no one paying $500 in real life to buy any kicks... Y'all must be bugging I know nikkas personally was paying $300-$400 when the first Nike Foamposites came out and dudes out here paying an arm and a leg for those things...

 

[Booker T Garvey]

at this clown denying that a lot of blacks suffer from the "white man's ice is colder" mentality. Atlanta isn't proof of anything that you're saying. Black don't own shyt in Atlanta which is why they're being gentrified out just like in other cities across the country.

https://www.google.com/amp/www.ajc....d-out-atlanta/xssB4QcXdmbMqq27OoJk0M/amp.html

You can post articles until you get carpal tunnel, this doesn't negate my point

ATL is filled to the brim with us supporting us...jay is talking about himself and lavar ball

Tidal came after most people were already paying for a subscription service - had nothing to do with HIM - they're struggling b/c of this, and if that rumor about them inflating numbers is true

 

[Gravity]

You can post articles until you get carpal tunnel, this doesn't negate my point

ATL is filled to the brim with us supporting us...jay is talking about himself and lavar ball

Tidal came after most people were already paying for a subscription service - had nothing to do with HIM - they're struggling b/c of this, and if that rumor about them inflating numbers is true

You can keep lying until you're blue in the face. The facts speak for themselves. Black people don't own shyt in Atlanta so if it was an example of blacks supporting blacks like you're falsely claiming, then that wouldn't be the case. I don't know why you clowns like coming here talking out your ass.

 

[BelowTheMasonDixon]

I support black people who support the black diaspora.

Rocnation sold
Beats by Dre sold
Defjam sold
Bet sold

How did any of the money from these sold companies help black people ? we build the value of these companies up,then they sell them off without re-investing the money into the black diaspora.

I'm tired of supporting negros who turn around and sell their companies to corporations

But isn't this what everybody does eventually? I think ya'll hold Black people to ridiculous standards.