Jay-Z's TIDAL staff is all white and it's bothering people

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what are your opinions on this?

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http://breakingbrown.com/2015/05/jay-z-needs-your-help-to-pay-his-all-white-tidal-staff/print

Jay-Z Needs Your Help to Pay His All White Tidal Staff
by YvetteNew | May 27, 2015 11:57 am

by Yvette Carnell

In what was supposed to be a blistering diss of the white goliaths in the tech world, Jay-Z blasted YouTube, Google and Spotify in a rap song. This was an obvious attempt by the rapper to inject race into his marketing campaign and leverage his blackness as a tool for selling a bullsh*t product that no one’s interested in buying. In the song, Jay-Z goes all pro-black on us, but his Tidal staff looks…well…white.

On their Facebook page, Vitamin Q[1] posted the following caption to the picture of Jay-Z’s mostly white Tidal staff:

Last week #JayZ[2] told you that you don’t support black while his wife poured 25k into a pool. Here’s the staff at #Tidal[3]. Who is it again that doesn’t support black? How many black employees do you see here? I know for a fact #Spotify[4] got at least two (shout out to Mjeema Pickett), but I don’t see ANY here. Do you?




The strategy of using race to galvanize blacks and line one’s own pockets is a strategy often used by the black elite, so Jay-Z’s last ditch effort to promote his floundering music streaming company comes as no surprise. It seem that now, however, blacks aren’t all that interested in being used by the black elite for cashflow, but ignored when it’s time for black millionaires to stand up for ordinary black people. (And the timing of news that Jay-Z had allegedly posted bail for Baltimore rioters was more than a little suspect.)

This Instagram sort of sums it up:
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Fake outrage. If jay marketed it different no one would have said anything and the same outcome would have happened as far as staff. I don't believe these tidal haters are genuine at all.
 

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There's a difference between all white and no blacks. I support the message tho
 

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Fake outrage. If jay marketed it different no one would have said anything and the same outcome would have happened as far as staff. I don't believe these tidal haters are genuine at all.


I think both sides are fake. I think Jay is doing what he has to and saying what he has to "sell" and market himself as a humanitarian after not giving a fukk about the "broke" folks he's rhymed about the last 20 yrs.

I think the outrage is fake as well because I don't think people actually give a fukk about Tidal and are really just trying to take shots at a multi millionaire who is struggling in a new venture. Misery loves company.

I speak for myself when I say I don't care either way.
 
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:rudy: everybody in that pic looks white my dude....there may be some italians and irish people in there but still...
You don't see that middle Eastern mufukka right there in the front of the pic. You don't see that light skinned Hispanic dude in the cut? I'm sure if I look hard enough I'll find an Asian there too
 
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donald sterling had an NBA team with all black players and a black coach, and he was a white supremacist

so a black man being the boss over a bunch of white people, is different in what way

stop letting the white media play you like a fiddle

we all know we jay-z was talking about in those rhymes, it was about OWNERSHIP, black ownership, a black man being a boss, this is what the hate is about
now who has a job or not

stop being so small minded and easily manipulated, this tactics are so predictable it's not even funny, these white people really believe nikkaz is stupid and you feeding into this shyt

wake the fukk up man
 

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where is Tidal headquartered?? is it still Stockholm?? if so then whats the problem here?
 
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