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 may enter right into a cope with a league that was — and nonetheless is — blackballing them for a job that may “advise (the league) on choosing artists for main NFL performances just like the Tremendous Bowl,” in addition to “inspiring change” that may “training and financial development; police and group relations; and legal justice reform,” has arrived in the intervening 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 buddies of Jay-Z like Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, 50 Cent, Mary J. Blige, and Kendrick Lamar — gained the Emmy for Excellent Selection Particular.
“It was one in every of, if not the best Tremendous Bowl halftime reveals ever,” director Hamish Hamilton instructed Billboard just lately. “That [artist] lineup modified the world – they modified music, they modified politics, they modified the way in which that we costume, they’d a seismic affect in music, tradition, and past, and never one in every of them had been on a Tremendous Bowl invoice earlier than, and impulsively they’re all on the identical Tremendous Bowl invoice, and by the way in which it’s [near] Compton, the place a few of this began, the place Dre began, actually that is his yard. And, after all, you’ve obtained the house staff within the ultimate. 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 a hit, and it was wonderful. However, was it value it?
No.
If a trophy is all that the person who willingly entered a cope with 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 all the time what it…all the time was. A dude who likes cash doing a deal that may make him extra money underneath the guise of, “However, it’s gonna assist Black individuals. Simply belief me,” when that was by no means the case.
During the last couple of weeks, Jay-Z has been going through criticism as individuals have began to appreciate that a few of his ventures haven’t been “chess, not checkers,” as they initially assumed. They’re beginning to see that he’s all the time been taking part in Monopoly. Throughout a latest dialog on Twitter Areas, Jay-Z, a person that has bragged and reveled about being a capitalist in virtually each music he’s ever made, took subject with being labeled a “capitalist.”
Wait, what?
“All these lies that America instructed us our entire life after which once we begin getting it, they attempt to lock us out of it,” he stated. “They begin inventing phrases like ‘capitalist.’ We’ve been known 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, , doesn’t embody us. We stated wonderful. We went our alternate route. We created this music. We did our factor, , we hustle, we f*cking killed ourselves to get to this house. And, , now it’s like, , , ‘Eat the wealthy,’ and, man, we’re not stopping.”
This sounds precisely like a person who made a cope with the NFL as a result of he would possibly wish to someday 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 most of these NFL musical occasions have gotten extra “ethnic.” However, ultimately, are higher reveals what we wanted, and even requested for? And that’s the issue with all of this, because it seems 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.
