All trophies matter…I assume.
Roger Goodell has a model new prize he can placed on his mantel, as Jay-Z’s 2019 choice to betray Colin Kaepernick and Eric Reid in order that he might enter right into a take care of a league that was — and nonetheless is — blackballing them for a job that will “advise (the league) on deciding on artists for main NFL performances just like the Tremendous Bowl,” in addition to “inspiring change” that will “training and financial development; police and group relations; and prison justice reform,” has arrived in the mean time the place the fruits of all that backstabbing labor have equated to one thing.
For the primary time in historical past, the 2022 NFL Tremendous Bowl Halftime Present — which featured associates of Jay-Z like Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, 50 Cent, Mary J. Blige, and Kendrick Lamar — received the Emmy for Excellent Selection Particular.
“It was one among, if not the best Tremendous Bowl halftime exhibits ever,” director Hamish Hamilton advised Billboard just lately. “That [artist] lineup modified the world – they modified music, they modified politics, they modified the best way that we costume, that they had a seismic affect in music, tradition, and past, and never one among them had been on a Tremendous Bowl invoice earlier than, and swiftly they’re all on the identical Tremendous Bowl invoice, and by the best way it’s [near] Compton, the place a few of this began, the place Dre began, actually that is his yard. And, in fact, you’ve obtained the house staff within the last. It was a hip-hop L.A. Tremendous Bowl once-in-a-lifetime second. It simply had every part further going for it, from that first shot of Dre in his studio in Compton.”
The present was successful, and it was superb. However, was it price it?
No.
If a trophy is all that the person who willingly entered a take care of the NFL — for a price that also hasn’t been made public — has to point out for after his notorious “we’ve moved previous kneeling” feedback led to Goodell later saying “we’ve moved on (from Colin Kaepernick)”, then the dude who claims to be a “enterprise, man” obtained scammed.
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Or, was this always what it…always was. A dude who likes money doing a deal that would make him more money under the guise of, “But, it’s gonna help Black people. Just trust me,” when that was never the case.
Over the last couple of weeks, Jay-Z has been facing criticism as people have started to realize that some of his ventures haven’t been “chess, not checkers,” as they originally assumed. They’re starting to see that he’s always been playing Monopoly. During a recent conversation on Twitter Areas, Jay-Z, a person that has bragged and reveled about being a capitalist in nearly each track he’s ever made, took situation with being labeled a “capitalist.”
Wait, what?
“All these lies that America advised us our entire life after which after we begin getting it, they attempt to lock us out of it,” he mentioned. “They begin inventing phrases like ‘capitalist.’ We’ve been referred to as ‘n*ggers’ and ‘monkeys’ and sh*t. I don’t care what phrases y’all provide you with. Y’all gotta include stronger phrases.”
He then went on to say, in response to Billboard, that nobody needs to be made to “really feel ashamed to achieve success in a spot that arrange a system for us to be useless at 21… Y’all locked us out. Y’all created a system that, you already know, doesn’t embrace us. We mentioned superb. We went our alternate route. We created this music. We did our factor, you already know, we hustle, we f*cking killed ourselves to get to this house. And, you already know, now it’s like, you already know, you already know, ‘Eat the wealthy,’ and, man, we’re not stopping.”
This sounds precisely like a person who made a take care of the NFL as a result of he would possibly wish to sooner or later personal an NFL staff — not like an individual that needed to “encourage change” for racial and social justice.
When the 2022 NFL season begins on Thursday night time, reggaeton star J BALVIN will headline the kickoff live performance. Since Jay-Z got here aboard some of these NFL musical occasions have gotten extra “ethnic.” However, in the long run, are higher exhibits what we wanted, and even requested for? And that’s the issue with all of this, because it appears like the one change that was impressed has been the “change” into Jay-Z’s pockets.
We needed police brutality and racism to stop. And all we obtained have been higher live shows and a cooler halftime present.
Thanks for nothing, Jay-Z. Get pleasure from your trophy.
