Angela Davis said it best: previously marginalized individuals are recruited to positions of power to create a more efficient operation of oppressive systems.
I think Jay’s core audience isn’t radical and are not anti capitalist. He’ll be fine in the end cuz these folks were debating whether to accept 500k over a dinner with him.
Right, talking about he will help you become a billionaire. Chile, if you don't take that 500K and get a financial advisor. Make enough good investments and you will double your money.
a billionaire is a billionaire regardless of the colour of their skin. jay-z and the like continue to show us black capitalism is not the answer to the class and race struggle. colour me surprised 🤷🏿♀️
Kanye West does that same thing too , theyPRETEND to care about the kids (black kids), and look at Chicago. Giving a man a pair of yzy when you should have built a factory so they can be trained for life. Black celebrities are not the saviours y'all think they are
THATS A FACT. the best they can do is philanthropy which A) is a tax write off and B) represents taxation that should be going to us. They have nothing but bad to offer everyone as they win at our detriment.
Capitalism doesn't work for anyone except the rich. If we actually took a history lesson and listened to the black panthers (yeah, they had issues, but they had so many ideas right), we have to destroy capitalism before anything else can be taken care of. People keep thinking capitalism is going to save them. And the fact that Jay Z doesn't know his OWN history in black radicalism to think these are "new words", he's showing how dumb he is.
I think it’s funny how people really thinks Jay z and folks alike can be a billionaire and hoard all this wealth AND be a revolutionary while doing a lot for the black community on a socioeconomic level. I don’t ever see it happening.
It’s contradictory in and of itself. If you were a revolutionary there’s no way you would ever have a billion dollars. It’s impossible in relation to those ideals. If you let yourself hoard that much wealth you were never revolutionary to begin with.
@@sakinaalia1067 no its not, Jay-z has always been selfish, arrogant and some other not so nice words, now that he is a billionaire he still those things, the question is what type of people become billionaires
@@jackcarver5412 that’s what I’m saying. If you really cared about revolutionary ideals you would never step on all the people and hoard all the wealth required to become a billionaire.
Billionaire don’t “hoard” wealth.. that’s not how wealth works. That’s not how any of this works. It’s about acquiring assets. Assets are - Businesses, Real Estate, Commodities, Stocks, etc. Saving, would be “hoarding money. Wealth comes from freeing money to work harder than you do.
I truly think he is struggling with his new identity of a black bourgeoisie. His identity is very rooted in his struggle and in his experience as a poor black person, but he is not that anymore and he can't reconcile it. Because if he truly believes there's nothing wrong with the system and the way it operates, then it's okay to call yourself a capitalist. If you believe in the free market and how it currently exists then when people call you a capitalist it shouldn't really bother you.
I agree with you. I definitely think there’s a struggle accepting his new identity because it pretty much means he’s out of touch with certain parts of black struggle.
The thing is he wouldn’t have to struggle with this new identity if he really really used his position to fight that same system. Fighting it from the inside
@@ikexbankai there is some efforts on his part in providing bail funds for wrongfully incarcerated inmates with low income. I hope to see more of that 🙏
@@synesthesia.aesthetic who cares about that. People who are wrongly convicted are a low percentage vs the percentage of those struggling in the “black community”
He gave this energy back when he got involved with thise homes being bulldozed to build Barclay's. Called the sister a "buzz kill" when mentioned it. Bey & Solange have said entirely fukt up l things. These ppl don't gaf about anyone but themselves. *Like Malcolm said, entertainers should not be our academic & political class". No other commuinty allows this*
Apples and oranges. Jay Z has a god complex, and martyrs himself unironically. Marie Antoinette was a child bride and her beheading was a tragedy. Let them eat cake was a propagada term used, long before Marie was even born, in that era in France to contrast classism by the aristocracy as a whole.
Unlike Marie he actually is aware of where he is at in his power and influence. He knows that what he represents isn’t good but he doesn’t care. Marie just thought shit was being withheld from people and was just like “just give it to them.”
Jay Z has proven it throughout his career...over and over. This is the same man who claimed that "his success is social commentary" years ago when Harry Belafonte went on record saying that Jay and Beyonce should use their voice and influence to address generational issues in the black community. Then he mocked him by calling him Mr Dayo like Harry Belafonte is some B list rapper in a silly beef and not a true historic figure in entertainment as an activist and pioneer. As egotistical as LeBron James is, he'd never respond to Bill Russell that way. Jay has been shown who he is and what his mentality is since he came on the scene. Beyonce ain't far behind. Edit: I wrote this before she brought up the Harry Belafonte situation.
This idea that Jay is kind of cosplaying a Black radical is interesting to me. I NEVER saw him as down for the people. When he became a major player on the corporate side of the NFL and made no moves for Kap, I was kind of like, oh, he's only about himself lol. Not enough of us will have this conversation unfortunately, so I'm glad you're doing it, sis.
That was a recent sign, but didn't he literally start out as a drug dealer, before the fame? I mean, he was pumping bad into our community on his own already, why would anyone think he changed?
When Jay Z thought he was flexing by bringing Oprah to the housing project he grew up in i knew the deal. Y is that project STILL a project?!? He loves showing ppl he was poor but did nothing to change that situation for others.
Damn I definitely think that glorification of poverty does play a HUGE role in why black billionaires do nothing to try to invest and make these projects better for people. If they are very much proud of coming form the bottom and horrible environments why would they invest and try to make those living situations and environments better so then no would could no longer brag about how they are from the hood and the bottom if they turn into good environments. It’s crazy
Has there ever been a project complex that stopped being one?? Its owned by the govt with the soul purpose of super low income housing. I dont think its possible for Marcy Projects to turn into something else without the govt doing so. People can move out the projects and live better loves but the buildings themselves will always be there.
Jay-Z’s rant about people “inventing” the word “capitalism” in order to shame black EXPLOITERS (bc that’s what he is) for being successful sounds like something out of South Park. I can’t believe he said that. 🤧🤧🤧
He ain't talking about y'all. What's wrong with you? (And you don't know about what that man built and not put his name on it. People got clean water to drink on the strength of Hov's dollar. Medicine and education because of the depths of his pockets)
@@kernalbert4939 Kern, pls don’t come over here and try to justify his bird brain “logic” to me because I’m not having it. You’re lucky I even dignified that with a response. Goodbye.
He was a drug dealer. That says a whole lot about his character. The hood drug dealers whole goal was to make money all while depleting his community to obtain the little money that is available without care of destroying the community and families that lived there.
Y'all, can THIS be the final nail in the coffin when it comes to us regular folk paying attention, listening and putting more money into the pockets of these celebrity billionaires?!??! Like, I'm TIRED of being outraged and caring anymore 'cause it's 1000% CLEAR that they are very out of touch.
I'm surprised, people still respect him after he said, something around the lines: the time for kneeling is over. Being out of touch and crass is his brand now.
@@azureavocado5195 lmfao this is hilarious 🤣 The only money I put in these peoples lives is from listening to their music. I love Rihanna but I’m not invested like that lol
@@Kayla4217 Yeah, but I think that kind of distracts from the point the video is kind of making Drake doesn't too much care about being seen as a capitalist Jay z clearly does.
@@kelvinnyaga-online9055 that’s not true at all. Some people are born wealthy. If I rob you at gunpoint I don’t have to be smarter just better at robbery. But I got your money.
Bruh … she dragged and rightfully so. People online in blog comments celebrating Rihanna and Jay-Z being billionaires but bitching about how they can’t afford milk is hilarious to me … y’all don’t realize the system that let them because so disgustingly wealthy is what’s keeping you poor?
I absolutely agree but bill gates and Elon musk and Jeff bezo all EACH have over a 100 billion dollars that's beyond disgustingly wealthy , aren't they the bigger problem
@@jeanjmcceee5764 oh yes absolutely but we KNOW they’re gross. If you’re a fan of them it’s only because you think being that wealthy is something to aspire to. And people don’t associate them with radicalism and progressive politics like they do with Black billionaires.
Mic dropped 🎤 You nailed it to the wall. People spend their money on these celebrities and want to look like them and will argue with you if you say anything about it and at the end of the day when reality hits they’re complaining about money, bills and food prices. SMDH
@@jeanjmcceee5764 yes of course they’re all on the disgusting list that don’t give a flop about common everyday folks who crawl to buy what they’re selling
I’ll never forget when Jay was pressed on Kap getting a job in the NFL & he said something to the effect of “We’re moving on from kneeling… we’re focused on actionable items” I knew then that he had fully sold his soul. I’m done listening to him tell everyone how rich he is in his music. It’s outdated & frankly, annoying….
Capitalism cannot and will never save our people especially when our physical bodies were one of the first versions of currency within this economic structure. Jay Z is the consequence when we confuse a Black person gaining economic success and holding "gems" for financial power with actually being an activist for change. Jay Z clearly has not done his research and we are to blame for putting him on this high pedestal of philanthropy when he has tangibly done nothing for the black community except be a representative of the Black people in places we will never see and never be apart of. Place REAL activists at the pedastal of activism to be our spokespeople for REAL change, not celebrities that brainwash you into thinking you will be in their place while they benefit from you simutaneously feed into the capitalist society that keeps you poor and suffer injustice.
@@wandervoltz exactly!! I’m really starting to believe Black people who become extremely successful in a capitalist society end up with a skewed view of systematic racism and how it works.
Capitalism cannot and will never save our people especially when our physical bodies were one of the first versions of currency within this economic structure. THIS RIGHT HERE!!!!!!
@@BooDotBoo This woman, Kimberly, is literally talking all this anti-capitalism anti-materialism virtue signaling bullshhh while wearing a Gold Rolex watch. Smh this generation is Too hypocritical… Kimberly is example of someone profiting off of radical rhetoric for personal financial gain… she part of a generation of a bunch of phony articulate idi0ts using “intellectual masturbation” to virtue signal. Our generation should be ashame of itself
IIm so glad people are finally seeing this! Been saying this shit for years and I’ve struggled to connect w Beyoncé’s music in recent years. I’m Black British so I feel like my experience is slightly removed I’ve always thought Beyoncé and JayZ representation of blackness was performative and I felt like it was taking advantage of the collective experience of AAs (and white guilt in more powerful spaces). While Beyoncé really hasn’t ever had to struggle financially and JayZ has been rich for coming up to 30 years. They’re so far removed and the cracks in the facade are showing 😖
Yeah, once Beyonce hit on this black power stuff, her music just became very not genuine. Some are still bangers, yes, but the soul she used to have is gone. It's just a vault of money, now. And it's sad to see because of how we saw her start out.
@@BooDotBoo right like girl stick to love songs and dance /twerk music 😭 i missed songs like dangerously in love and check on it. I didn’t like anything after 4 really
Being Black is about more than just struggle and poverty. She’s not performative just because she hasn’t been poor. She’s still Black and has every right to celebrate that.
I think it’s about expecting celebrities to be community leaders, and that, they are not. That goes for any of them. Reading is not required for fame or money and our community doesn’t reward those that do. For Kanye to say that, he was mad Jay barely wanted to give him a loan. Black people seek wealth to escape poverty not as a means to unify or beat the system.
Jay Z started out as a street pharmacist in order to pull himself out of poverty. His roots were never community centered, so why would anyone think that this would really change with his financial status?
@@mc2383 and honestly I think we all could be doing something to unify and uplift the community yet here we are. We all are trying to “make it out” of poverty. We buy their products, we participate in capitalism, buy the tickets, the merch, the music, and we all can be very about the culture. Now I think Jay Z is defensive about his character being targeted but I don’t place unrealistic expectations on those ppl. They are not leaders, they’re just rich famous ppl.
@@MeghannMonroe I don't think someone like Fred Hampton (who embodied unification) would get far in this era. The new flex culture has made it so no one without obvious wealth is worth being heard. To be broke is now worse than being deceptive or deviant.
@@MeghannMonroe I couldn't agree more. I'd like to add that "Charity" is the mainstream outlet we have right now, which many celebrities have latched onto, but that only "band-aids" a problem for a moment, then it is right back to the cycle of powerlessness and oppression. Also Black People are 13-15% of the population and only 2% of Black families have a net worth of 1 million dollars... we are dealing with very small numbers here... I hope black people don't expect the 50 "super" wealthy black people in America that came 500+ years after the fact to uproot them or society at large from a hole they was placed into by 1000+ wealthy colonial Capitalist and their beneficiaries....
Oh! He always gave me power hungry and wanting to be like “the man” vibe. He told on himself. He is struggling with now having actual power and money but is still reminded that he’s on the bottom of the hierarchy pole for “the real rich.” Sounds like a tantrum to me. Ain’t no black male worship at the real top, brah 🤷🏾♀️
A woman on tiktok talked about how Beyoncé and jay x were playing in our face while our world was burning. They roasted that poor woman. I know she’s smiling now lom
The people who speak our truth are hated because so many of us won't accept the reality of things. We keep thinking, one day, a rich black person will save us and take us to some promised land that doesn't exist.
The culture has definitely changed. I keep seeing tweets asking Jay-Z, Diddy, Pharell and co to pay the talents on their labels, what they deserve. A growing part of Black people are over "Black capitalism" for sure.
I was waiting on this! Jay Z has clearly never studied the man he cosplays. Basquiat through his art always explored oppression and he was anti-capitalist.
Basquiat was only anti-capitalist on paper lmaaaaaaaao....he was a luxury consumerism ADVOCATE AND PARTICIPATED which is literally capitalism......you people are so delusional 😂😂😂😂
Truth be told we want to separate Beyoncé and Jay Z and cannot. Beyoncé's music in recent years is arguably extremely capitalist/classist. On top of the 5 year span where they gave us black power porn............they forget the SPREAD part of being black and wealthy is the real way them being rich would help ANYONE. They haven't started a bank, they haven't given out continuous grants for different groups of black people, nothing to actually bring EVERYONE BLACK up with them. Feeding us a dream because you're rich doesn't inspire anymore when we and our parents are struggling.
EXACTLY! Just like Kim said, it's all for aesthetics and we continue to fall for it hook, line and sinker. So it's like, when are we gonna stop making these people more relevant & rich...
@@azureavocado5195 she was basically an heiress. Look at how she even BECAME famous. Black wealth was as important an ingredient as talent and dedication.
This is why I didn't trust Beyonce's song...Break My Soul. Especially when later in the album she says "it should cost a billion to look this good". They love to play radical and revolutionary, but they just want a bourgeois revolution that leaves them on top. Remember that and don't admire celebrities. They will always fail you. Also, get intense hotep vibes from them and Kendrick Lamar.
@Trinity M He also talked about how he loved dark skin...but his wife of years...is fair skin....nothing wrong with that...but don't use fake wokeness to sell to females and live another life behind the scene
It's the "DO YOU HAVE ACCESS TO BOOKS?" for me 😂 cuz sometimes I recognize that my deep knowledge of the complexities of capitalism comes from an Ivy league education but got damn I'm from Atlanta Public schools and was up in that library ALWAYS- being rich and ignorant has never been a goal. And in these efforts to form a misguided Black elite, it's just going to spark the same cycles of oppression we wish to escape from. I've been loving the truth of your vids lately!
Right. He made himself look like an absolute FOOL saying, what he said about 'capitalism'. He really should have paid someone to give him a basic lesson on what capitalism/capitalist means. Because his billionaire ignorance is not a good look.
I was born in 96. I’ve been a fan of Jay and Bey my entire life but as I educate myself more the harder it is to listen to them. Black capitalists need to accept capitalism is inherently anti-black. I’m so tired of talking in circles.
@@IamMrImpeccable It doesn’t make sense to claim to be pro-black and use pro-black imagery when you’re exploiting poor black folks and hoarding wealth. The fact that Jay Z said the term “capitalist” was just invented shows he isn’t as intelligent as he claims to be. Very similar to men like J Cole and Kanye. They want to be leaders but don’t want to do the actual work of educating themselves.
Fred Hampton would look Jay Z right in his face and tell him he’s doing it all wrong. Him rapping his name in watch the throne is so ironic it’s comedic
The same Rockerfeller that made it possible for oil to be so cheap that poor people were able to light their homes, power machines that made it possible for goods to be produced cheaply etc Learn your history
@@bisiriyutajudeen5728 thank you for your perspective. Selling products at an affordable price should not be commendable. A profit was still attained I presume. In order to get a well rounded view of a person you should look at everything said person was involved in. Eugenics and philanthropy going hand in hand with nefarious intentions is where you should start.
The interviewer should have pushed back on that. If he thinks he's a billionaire because he worked hard, does he think he grew up in those conditions because his family was just lazy? My mom worked 16 hour shifts, 7 days a week and died at 60. She was not lazy. No one becomes a billionaire from working hard. It's impossible, they become a billionaire from taking profits from hundreds of thousands of people who worked hard. In his specific case, don't they have a bunch of sweat shops somewhere? His music alone is only worth 75 million. The rest of that money comes from standing on people's necks. The fact he doesn't see that astounds me. I don't expect him to care, but he should at least realize it.
Very flawed and ignorant analogy. People become rich which essentially become billionaires because people like YOU value what they create and by their products. She can only be a billionaire because people buy her products. You have a phone? Probably what your watching this on. A laptop, tv, car, air conditioning, make up, whatever? You enjoy all of these products, and then get angry because the people who came up with these products became wealthy because people like you bought them. Puhlease! 🙄
@@lacijohnson400 There's nothing ignorant about OP's point. What you said and what they said can exist simultaneously. Yes, we buy cellphones because we see value in them, but if cellphone companies used ethically sourced materials and paid all their employees justly, CEOs of these companies wouldn't be billionaires. Instead, children are exploited and abused in Congo to work in mines to source coltan, factory workers in China work in dangerous, unsanitary conditions for crumbs, etc. It's this unethical, exploitative, evil cost-cutting that turns many top execs into bilionnaires.
@@lacijohnson400 Most billionaires aren't genius inventors. They profit off the genius inventors who get paid more than most, but still aren't billionaires themselves. The genius inventor is just another worker that the billionaire extracts value from. And like the other person said, the products I buy are created by the labor of hundreds if not thousands of people and the value of that labor is stolen by that billionaire instead of given to the people who actually did the work. If you have a job, you have to realize this is true, that you make more money for the company than they pay you. If you didn't there would be no reason to hire you. Now multiple that across the world, and you have a handful of people profiting off the work of a billions.
@@MissKashira y’all say this like the billionaires point guns to the head of people and “steal” their inventions. People WILLINGLY sell their businesses to other people to make money. It’s transactional and is a win win for both parties. But you know we don’t have to work for these greedy evil billionaires right? They’re so evil and wicked, nobody should buy their products or even work for them. Yet people everyday choose to submit applications, sign contracts with them and work for them. Please how is the value stolen?? When you agreed to the pay and the job?? Please make it make sense.
Also I’m so happy that a channel like yours exist. I hope the people learn that you can be a fan of someone’s art and still critique them. Social media has made critiques a sign of hating. And that is far from the truth.
It’s seen as hating because it’s only ever directed towards one artist. It would seem more genuine if they all got equal smoke but that’s not the case.
WELL SAID. When it's their favourite celeb, it's almost like there's some unwritten rule, stating that you're NOT allowed to post constructive criticism about their actions.
@@lonspram3922 It's not directed toward one artist, it's not just Jay Z and Beyonce. Every entertainer gets talked about good or bad. The problem is, people like to idolize and worship these celebrities so much in this day and age, y'all act like they're above it all and no one can pull their card when they're on some BS. Everybody is not deaf, dumb and blind and ignore the obvious just cause they love what they do as entertainers and because they have mega-stardom and a billion dollars. They're human first, and they can be called out too, they're not exempt.
I cackled when you said he could just pay some to read for him because he really really could. He has that much money. I think that's all we're asking. If you're going to build a career on performance of black suffrage and then not give back. AT LEAST be quiet and read book (or pretend you read books).
He can surely afford an Audible subscription w/o a promo code, lol. I mean, I'd settle for him just gettin' the cliff notes atp. The fact of the matter isn't so much that he's unread, but that he's uninterested. The former can be easily fixed, the latter not so much.
Why are looking to Jay and beyonce who are entertainers for intellectual, financial, spiritual, and or psychological guidance. It's so sad that these are our role models ...people who wear costumes for a living, they perform. Where are parents, church leaders, teachers and professors, coaches as role models. There lies the problem. We look up to the wrong people. I could care less what Jay z believes or feels about capitalism or any other ideology. He is a rapper who made a shitton of money and learned about how to invest and grow his portfolio from people he gained access to because of the money he made and his desire to make more. Come on people damn.
@@MissDuch WE don't hence why we watch Nicole's channel I find that the enlightened watch and read and digest material that helps progress us forward even more those who are unenlightened travel in darkness they consume info that feeds their ignorance and burds of a feather flock together. Even Nicole's grasp of vocabulary would scare off many. HELL I have to look up a word or two she uses sometimes. I just worry for the many who aren't here with you and me. Blessings to you.
this man is talking about "capitalist" and 'eat the rich' bedbug slurs meanwhile hundreds if this not thousands of communities across the US don't have clean water ???!!!!
This is why Nipsey was arguably the most important figure in hip hop for this generation. He did what everyday black people ask rich black people to do: invest in the community...
And the community destroyed and killed him! Which is why most of them who made it. Dont go back, or invest in the hood. Unfortunately, we are our worst enemy!
@@chevynunubeautychroniclesm6034 which is why I dont believe there is a fix for this at all. Were gonna be stuck in this fight and limbo for as long as the institution stay erect.
@@jdkingsley6543 false. Investment in the advancement of black women has proven to be profitable and effective. Black women have become more educated and will soon out earn our black male counterparts. All hope is not lost.
In the words of Beyoncé, “I grew up going to private school”, she doesn’t have the range to speak on black radical economic thought if it hit in her in face.
Beyoncé has always upheld traditional patriarchal ideals. Every image Beyoncé has ever released has been for the male gaze. Almost every lyric Beyoncé has ever uttered ultimately supported phallic worship. She has never had the range. She has never had the vocabulary. She has never cared.
Cue me getting dog-piled on Twitter in like 2015 for saying she grew up privileged. Ole-“she grew up in 3RD WARD”-headasses fell for the hood girl cosplay in the Soldier video real hard. I know we not a monolith but some BP really embarrass me with how gullible they are
Nah finish the whole statement. "I grew up going private schools, parents drove [insert vluxury vehicles]. People think because we're Black my parents were poor like The Jacksons. They weren't using me to get out of a bad situation". MISS JANET WAS NOT PLEASED!
@@WhoCares3001 They did use her to get out of poverty, because they were poor. Their lives depended on their jobs. With a daughter making millions they could be independent. People fall for nonsense because they don't think. It's funny that black women worship a woman who promotes whiteness.
He wants us to feel shame for critiquing that he hoards wealth and then invokes growing up in Marcy Projects as cover that’s he’s “down for the struggle”. What exactly has Jay contributed to Marcy Projects and its surrounding community for me to not roll my eyes? All that power, wealth, and access and all he could come up with was that Bitcoin academy????? PLEASE. MISS. TF. OUTTA. ME.
I bet he didn't even grow up there. His grandma probably just lived there. Same with T.I, I am from Center Hill and NO ONE knew that ninja when he first came out over there. His grandfather lived over there and stayed down the street from me but he DID NOT live over there. He lived in Sandy Springs, which is not a bad area.
@@user-wt9xm6xz6l No he doesn't. The issue is all these people yelling that white folks don't do anything for our community so we should buy black, but those same black folks don't do anything for the community so I might as well buy white.
@@ashleyrogers1930 I totally understand where you coming from, but if I’m gonna make somebody else rich it might as well be another black person lol or we can stop being consumers all together.
@@angechrisman1694 maybe she does but she also gets a lot of praise, probably more than 99.9% of celebrities so you go off 🤷🏾♀️The point is there’s room for both.
@Carpe Diem Sounds like you've met them all and shaken their hands? For every Beyoncé fan, there are triple the haters. She is held to incredibly high standards - all the time. Nothing she does goes unnoticed, and all that she does is scrutinized, debated and magnified. As beloved as she is, she's also one of the most attacked celebrities. Her fans mostly come to her defence when absurd, unprovoked and baseless things are said about her, particularly when it comes to her work, talent and legacy. Let's be fair.
@@theovandermerwe997 i’m sorry but that’s just not true, her fans definitely outweigh her haters. and i think ppl hold her to the high standard because most ppl recognize she is the golden standard. you can disagree with the criticism, but let’s be honest…..
Also using homeownership to build wealth lowkey how we got into this mess. People used their homes to create wealth for themselves which made it harder for the rest of us to buy into the market. I mean because homeowners are about protecting their wealth, they will strict down initiatives that create affordable housing opportunities, because more homes makes the price go down.
But homeownership does build wealth . I bought a house 10 years ago with no interest in keeping anyone else down. I wanted a roof over my head with monthly payments that don’t change. Now there’s 200k in equity and my mortgage for a 4br with a full basement is less than folks are paying to rent studios. We have to find a way to fix our situations without misunderstanding the rules of finance.
@@silkyslim2111 I never said it didn't build wealth. I am saying that the wealth being built comes at the expense of future buyers and renters. It makes it harder for them to enter the market and it makes the cost of living soar. I didn't misunderstand anything. We can't have it both ways. Like yes, your mortgage is less than a studio apartment because you bought in the market early. Everyone else that comes after you doesn't get that same luxury. They have to deal with the studio that cost more than your mortgage, and a housing market that saw home values increase by $200k+. Yes you don't mean to keep people down, but that is the name of the game. It's not about you. It is the system (neoliberalism is truly bringing about societal collapse. My god.) that allow this cancer to take place.
During the endsars protests in Nigeria tiwa savage called Beyoncé out for her silence and her mom very quickly released an Instagram statement implying that she was out of line for expecting any support from her and that fuelled the narrative that she used yoruba culture as props…. Things like this (her husbands statements) don’t help these narratives… oh well …… life is lifing
Beyonce is just a mood and represents what is "hot" at the time. Neither she or Jay Z are about real people but about the culture that they profit from.
I'm a Beyonce STANN, BUT even I can admit, her being the wife of Jay Z and pretty much silently co-signing the stupid ish he says, makes it painfully evident and obvious that they are both not the brightest crayons in the box. I'm sorry. It had to be said.
"Silently co-signing" If you were a BEYONCÉ Stan you would know she doesn't ever speak on anything anyone else says and she doesn't need to come out and say shit......... Saying they're not the brightest crayons in the box doesn't make you bright either....
@@alluringbliss4165 No. It's realizing that the easiest thing to do it sit in comment sections and insult their intelligence. None of you know them. If you saw them, they wouldnt smile in recognition. Criticism is fair.. but questioning their intelligence is stupid and lazy.
Jay Z talks a LOT, but he says very little. Some people buy into what he says because they idolize him & get lost in his word salad. He’s a very uneducated man who has accomplished a lot, too bad he doesn’t use his resources to educate himself.
@@abdullahdawood1624 being dumb and uneducated are two different things. Jay Z is uneducated or uninterested in the social and political areas he claims to speak for and it comes off that disingenuous. Scammers aren’t dumb. Just greedy. most know how to talk themselves out of a bad situation and into a good one until ppl start putting 2 and 2 together.
@@abdullahdawood1624 I think that if you are too smart it may be difficult to stomach unabashed capitalism. Like there are certain things you have to ignore or just not care about like sweatshops in poorer countries. Maybe ignorance can be bliss in the pursuit of money. But anyway, there are certainly different kinds of intelligence so it's kind of immature to say your not smart in this particular thing so you must be dumb and vice versa.
We as black people should take the focus off of Jay Z and Beyonce and apply focus on more important issues and priorities. If we truly want to be black radicals then let's use an approach identical to the Harlem Renaissance and Black Wall Street. Let's reprogram our way of thinking when it comes to economics, investing, education, relationships and especially black unity. We can critique Jay Z for the duration of 2022. But, it takes ACTION to rectify the severe problems in disenfranchised communities.
Considering Jay Z recently tried to get people in Marcy crypto seminars instead of paying some damn bills or investing in the buildings renovations, none of this surprises me. What surprises me is how people still have standards for him lol.
When I was an undergraduate, I applied for a scholarship from the Sean Carter Foundation. The essay question was literally something along the lines of-How can lower income people get out of poverty? 😂😂😂 As an older 30+ adult I realize how problematic that question is. Especially since a requirement was to be from a disadvantaged socio-economic background.
The amount of people commenting on posts « Jay and Bey are still laughing to the bank » proves that majority of their stans don’t know the complexity of capitalism either and its going right over their heads😭😭😭😭
Im 28, and I literally have no hope for my future. I know I won’t be able to afford a house, idk what my future will look like, but I’m invested in dethroning the rich, they are the reason why we end up being the poor ones
Part of the challenge here is the assumption that Jay Z and the like…have done the work to close the knowledge gap. These are not well read, or race conscious individuals, and they bring that lack of knowledge to spaces like Clubhouse etc. To be race conscious is not just to call out the obvious inequities between different groups but to identify the systems that create the inequities and realize you may benefiting from those systems.
Jay told us everything we needed to know about him when he sat on the stage with Roger Goodell WITHOUT Kap and told blk America that the boycott was over because HE MADE A DEAL.
@@marilynmonheaux6356 beloved you have a better chance eating a Unicorn than eating the rich....its not about what happened in the past LMFAAAAAAAAAO.. Stop being delusional
yeah this made me realize that man does not read. if he picked up a book or even a speech from any of the men he be cosplaying he wouldnt fix his mouth on a public platform and claim that “capitalist” is a made up term. like that really left me dumbfounded. i knew he was long gone but the fact that he doesnt even READ?!?! yeah it’s just so disgusting.
I remember me (a black woman) and a Hispanic female telling our white, Bible study that socialism is good. They gasped, but we explained it to them and they were like oh. They never knew what it was, just felt it was bad.
When he was selling t-shirts at Occupy Wall Street, I was officially done. I saw him through a capitalist lens from that point on. It was not just an image for music videos, it was part of who he is. I would be more shocked if I found out he fully engaged politically and intellectually with social issues. There were tons of red flags in the past but people seemed to brush them off.
Gosh videos like this remind me why you are my favorite video essay creator. So incredibly inspired by the way you are able to put “tough” topics into a more digestible take.
“DO YOU HAVE ACCESS TO BOOKS?!” What a quote. I will never forget that 😩😩😩 And this is why we shouldn’t care about what entertainers think about serious matters they haven’t actually studied. Just throw your money into the movement like they did back in the day and let the actual organizers handle business.
Its a lot bigger than this - a lot of Hip Hop culture is built on acquiring wealth and flexing it... we can't be just mad at him and not the bigger picture
I just so appreciate hearing this from a Black woman, specifically a financially successful, mainstream educated one. I feel seen with a POV that I also share yet often feel lonely in.
I know I have heard that they have been very charitable to many causes, as well as philanthropic in the art world. However, I agree with your take. Offering money to organizations to help ameliorate suffering of people, or supporting the arts to further growth of the people, is one thing. Using your voice and your funds to promote and lobby for policy and bills that would actually work towards solving the suffering of people is a completely different thing. That is radical. That is revolutionary. Its putting your celebrity on the line for something greater.
Do you people realise that no amount of policies, bills, or even charity giving is going to solve suffering? People have donated BILLIONS to different charities and also towards to the actually people suffering, nothing has come out of it. It’s not revolutionary, it’s just waste of money.
i really enjoy this side of you Kim. as a young millennial (26 on the 11th this month)… i’m so occupied with my day to day financial struggles all this shit you discussed is above me right now. i learned a lot watching this, and as much as i love Bey this did open my eyes to a lot. anyway, thank you for what you do… love you!
As usual, right on point! It is a very cautiously cultivated image the Carters have been showing for years now. But to me it always felt off, and you summed up the essence of it in this vid. Thanks!
Completely in awe how Martin Luther King Jr was able to summarize the main problem with capitalism in a couple of sentences . Yeah ima have to recommend that article to a couple of people
There have been rich black people since the beginning of time. These newly rich entertainers want you to believe that they are the first of their kind and should be a protected class. It’s not just absurd but historically inaccurate. I wish he would just make his money and be quiet like his other black billionaire peers. Instead he’s miserable because he wants something he can’t have and that’s to be beloved and respected in the space of activism.
LOVE your FIERCENESS,ENERGY and PASSION. We need more and more people speaking up ⬆️ plus spreading the truth. We’re at a point in the country and in the world where people in GenZ and Gen alpha have to protest as well as fight against these issues. Hopefully Generation Beta doesn’t have to deal with bill that’s going on now
I'm just saying, when Beyonce came out at the Super Bowl dressed like Michael Jackson and a black panther, then announced her world tour. I wanna be wrong but ...mmmm I told y'all these Tiffany deals, NFL, etc. Mmmmm, I'm good. Okay I wrote this before Kim actually said it! Yeeeeees
When you are in a different environment than before it’s easy to lose touch to what you faced. That’s why it’s very good to keep in touch with your roots. MJ seems like the only celebrity who didn’t lose his humanity and humbleness. It came from poor beginnings but kept the same energy as a billionaire.
I do agree that Beyoncé and Jay Z serve an aesthetic. However, differing from what you said at the end, I think it’s useful. Not one Black person, at that ONE Black celebrity, should be responsible for shifting the culture. I think Black celebrities contribute in ways that protect them/their legacies/private issues. I think all Black celebrities contribute from their own angle. “Painting an aesthetic” that motivates the masses to address these issues is a powerful influence. Everybody plays their part.
Such an interesting post thank you for addressing this! One of the most heartbreaking moments working as a Speech Pathologist in a Marcy Projects charter school stays with me to this day. #11yearsago The kids were SO into “Jay-Z is from here”. None of them could see that that man has done nothing for their community but shoot a music video there. He has no care in the world about you but wouldn’t mind if you and your parents bought his music. So sad!! I love a Jay-Z song as much as anyone else but that truly broke my heart! At least Beyoncé popped up at a few schools during the Obama administration to dance with the kids. *deep long sigh I found myself asking would it have killed him to at least set up a program at the Barclays stadium for the kids to be bussed in for free basketball for one day or one hour!?
Angela Davis said it best: previously marginalized individuals are recruited to positions of power to create a more efficient operation of oppressive systems.
This!!!👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 give a few a seat at the table to make the rest believe, it’s possible!
@@l.m.t.l The illusion of inclusion.
Perfectly said
Yep, tokenistic fallacy.
You know Angela Davis is rich too right? You people are so performative.
I think Jay’s core audience isn’t radical and are not anti capitalist. He’ll be fine in the end cuz these folks were debating whether to accept 500k over a dinner with him.
Right, talking about he will help you become a billionaire. Chile, if you don't take that 500K and get a financial advisor. Make enough good investments and you will double your money.
Even he said “take the money”!
@@lolieng74 Hell, I know would!
that part!
This, exactly.
a billionaire is a billionaire regardless of the colour of their skin. jay-z and the like continue to show us black capitalism is not the answer to the class and race struggle. colour me surprised 🤷🏿♀️
Kanye West does that same thing too , theyPRETEND to care about the kids (black kids), and look at Chicago. Giving a man a pair of yzy when you should have built a factory so they can be trained for life. Black celebrities are not the saviours y'all think they are
THATS A FACT. the best they can do is philanthropy which A) is a tax write off and B) represents taxation that should be going to us.
They have nothing but bad to offer everyone as they win at our detriment.
Capitalism doesn't work for anyone except the rich. If we actually took a history lesson and listened to the black panthers (yeah, they had issues, but they had so many ideas right), we have to destroy capitalism before anything else can be taken care of. People keep thinking capitalism is going to save them.
And the fact that Jay Z doesn't know his OWN history in black radicalism to think these are "new words", he's showing how dumb he is.
Then what is the answer ?
@@lacijohnson400 that would take several dissertations and a change of character/ hearts/ideology of the people of this country to begin to solve.
Finally somebody said it. Being black and caring about issues that affect black people is an aesthetic for Jay-Z and Beyonce.
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Kelis says Hello, lol
And we really don’t want to believe it, myself included.
Yes. Just yes.
@@SirDave 🤣
I think it’s funny how people really thinks Jay z and folks alike can be a billionaire and hoard all this wealth AND be a revolutionary while doing a lot for the black community on a socioeconomic level. I don’t ever see it happening.
This!
It’s contradictory in and of itself. If you were a revolutionary there’s no way you would ever have a billion dollars. It’s impossible in relation to those ideals. If you let yourself hoard that much wealth you were never revolutionary to begin with.
@@sakinaalia1067 no its not, Jay-z has always been selfish, arrogant and some other not so nice words, now that he is a billionaire he still those things, the question is what type of people become billionaires
@@jackcarver5412 that’s what I’m saying. If you really cared about revolutionary ideals you would never step on all the people and hoard all the wealth required to become a billionaire.
Billionaire don’t “hoard” wealth.. that’s not how wealth works. That’s not how any of this works. It’s about acquiring assets.
Assets are - Businesses, Real Estate, Commodities, Stocks, etc.
Saving, would be “hoarding money. Wealth comes from freeing money to work harder than you do.
I truly think he is struggling with his new identity of a black bourgeoisie. His identity is very rooted in his struggle and in his experience as a poor black person, but he is not that anymore and he can't reconcile it. Because if he truly believes there's nothing wrong with the system and the way it operates, then it's okay to call yourself a capitalist. If you believe in the free market and how it currently exists then when people call you a capitalist it shouldn't really bother you.
I agree with you. I definitely think there’s a struggle accepting his new identity because it pretty much means he’s out of touch with certain parts of black struggle.
The thing is he wouldn’t have to struggle with this new identity if he really really used his position to fight that same system. Fighting it from the inside
@@ikexbankai Exactly.
@@ikexbankai there is some efforts on his part in providing bail funds for wrongfully incarcerated inmates with low income. I hope to see more of that 🙏
@@synesthesia.aesthetic who cares about that. People who are wrongly convicted are a low percentage vs the percentage of those struggling in the “black community”
Jay Z literally proving everyone's point. Giving real Marie antoinette let them eat cake energy
Typical talking at blkppl without wanting to listen to them.
He gave this energy back when he got involved with thise homes being bulldozed to build Barclay's. Called the sister a "buzz kill" when mentioned it. Bey & Solange have said entirely fukt up l things. These ppl don't gaf about anyone but themselves. *Like Malcolm said, entertainers should not be our academic & political class". No other commuinty allows this*
Apples and oranges. Jay Z has a god complex, and martyrs himself unironically. Marie Antoinette was a child bride and her beheading was a tragedy. Let them eat cake was a propagada term used, long before Marie was even born, in that era in France to contrast classism by the aristocracy as a whole.
Unlike Marie he actually is aware of where he is at in his power and influence. He knows that what he represents isn’t good but he doesn’t care. Marie just thought shit was being withheld from people and was just like “just give it to them.”
Jay Z has proven it throughout his career...over and over. This is the same man who claimed that "his success is social commentary" years ago when Harry Belafonte went on record saying that Jay and Beyonce should use their voice and influence to address generational issues in the black community. Then he mocked him by calling him Mr Dayo like Harry Belafonte is some B list rapper in a silly beef and not a true historic figure in entertainment as an activist and pioneer. As egotistical as LeBron James is, he'd never respond to Bill Russell that way. Jay has been shown who he is and what his mentality is since he came on the scene. Beyonce ain't far behind.
Edit: I wrote this before she brought up the Harry Belafonte situation.
This idea that Jay is kind of cosplaying a Black radical is interesting to me. I NEVER saw him as down for the people. When he became a major player on the corporate side of the NFL and made no moves for Kap, I was kind of like, oh, he's only about himself lol. Not enough of us will have this conversation unfortunately, so I'm glad you're doing it, sis.
This right here....he's just putting words to his actions and he's been acting this way for way longer than he been living in that project house.
And the fools were saying "he gon' help us from the inside". Lmao.
None of those artis you see perform at super bowl get paid .Jay-Z is the only one making money .
@@NC-tt4gc chiiiiiile.... 🙄🙄😂😂😂
That was a recent sign, but didn't he literally start out as a drug dealer, before the fame? I mean, he was pumping bad into our community on his own already, why would anyone think he changed?
When Jay Z thought he was flexing by bringing Oprah to the housing project he grew up in i knew the deal. Y is that project STILL a project?!? He loves showing ppl he was poor but did nothing to change that situation for others.
I posted this BEFORE he mentioned his housing project...u cant make this up😂 he literally did it again
Damn I definitely think that glorification of poverty does play a HUGE role in why black billionaires do nothing to try to invest and make these projects better for people. If they are very much proud of coming form the bottom and horrible environments why would they invest and try to make those living situations and environments better so then no would could no longer brag about how they are from the hood and the bottom if they turn into good environments. It’s crazy
Has there ever been a project complex that stopped being one?? Its owned by the govt with the soul purpose of super low income housing. I dont think its possible for Marcy Projects to turn into something else without the govt doing so. People can move out the projects and live better loves but the buildings themselves will always be there.
@@cg219 also it’s a easier to put the blame on Jay Z and not the govt that actually fails it’s constituents
@@cg219 Come on man how could you say such a thing? Don't you know that logic and common sense isn't allowed in this comment section.
Jay-Z’s rant about people “inventing” the word “capitalism” in order to shame black EXPLOITERS (bc that’s what he is) for being successful sounds like something out of South Park. I can’t believe he said that. 🤧🤧🤧
South Park?! 😂 Amen. Ignorant and gonzo af.
Thank you bc when I heard him say it….I said wait…is it me? Am I dumb? Then I said whew, yea…it’s def not me. 😮💨
He ain't talking about y'all. What's wrong with you?
(And you don't know about what that man built and not put his name on it. People got clean water to drink on the strength of Hov's dollar. Medicine and education because of the depths of his pockets)
@@kernalbert4939 Kern, pls don’t come over here and try to justify his bird brain “logic” to me because I’m not having it. You’re lucky I even dignified that with a response. Goodbye.
@@abenagyampo LOL. Stay ignorant and be proud of it then...
He was a drug dealer. That says a whole lot about his character. The hood drug dealers whole goal was to make money all while depleting his community to obtain the little money that is available without care of destroying the community and families that lived there.
Exactly!👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Thank you!
YEOOOO been saying thissss thank you
i could never really put the idea together, but this is exactly it.
Same as big pharma...,but never hear you talking about zaddy..
"They started inventing words like capitalist."
Jesus Christ read a book, man.
Y'all, can THIS be the final nail in the coffin when it comes to us regular folk paying attention, listening and putting more money into the pockets of these celebrity billionaires?!??! Like, I'm TIRED of being outraged and caring anymore 'cause it's 1000% CLEAR that they are very out of touch.
VERY
I'm surprised, people still respect him after he said, something around the lines: the time for kneeling is over. Being out of touch and crass is his brand now.
I haven't supported the people in this Babylon system for decades! So glad. 😏
Frfr. I’m not hyping overpriced Fenty cosmetics and matching sweatshop panties so Rih can play Billionaire mammy with ASAP.
That is not my duty.
@@azureavocado5195 lmfao this is hilarious 🤣 The only money I put in these peoples lives is from listening to their music. I love Rihanna but I’m not invested like that lol
Jay z and drake have no personality outside being rich
🎯 been saying this!!!! Just plain men trying to get power covertly to make up where they lack.
I don't think you'd hear Drake do anything to like this though.
@@FireTrainer92 cus he knows to stfu lol but you can hear it in his music he ain't touch grass in a long while either
Damn...no lies told 💯
@@Kayla4217 Yeah, but I think that kind of distracts from the point the video is kind of making Drake doesn't too much care about being seen as a capitalist Jay z clearly does.
Just because you’re rich doesn’t mean you’re smart 🤷🏽♀️
@@xamanbro826 my father will say.
He has money he is intelligent.
He is intelligent he has money.
“To be a great capitalist you need not be the most intelligent as long as you are the most ruthless.”
-Unknown
@@kelvinnyaga-online9055 that’s not true at all. Some people are born wealthy. If I rob you at gunpoint I don’t have to be smarter just better at robbery. But I got your money.
Exactly 👌🏽
That's exactly what it means, rich people have smart people around them
I started to see cracks when he said we were past Colin Kaepernick.
Cracks? The dam broke and water is everywhere.
@@ladonnawashington1643 THIS!!!
Be serious lmao.COLIN is not OPPRESSED
Bruh … she dragged and rightfully so. People online in blog comments celebrating Rihanna and Jay-Z being billionaires but bitching about how they can’t afford milk is hilarious to me … y’all don’t realize the system that let them because so disgustingly wealthy is what’s keeping you poor?
Yes they are not for us and not our friends 😭 but whenever you call it out you’re a hater
I absolutely agree but bill gates and Elon musk and Jeff bezo all EACH have over a 100 billion dollars that's beyond disgustingly wealthy , aren't they the bigger problem
@@jeanjmcceee5764 oh yes absolutely but we KNOW they’re gross. If you’re a fan of them it’s only because you think being that wealthy is something to aspire to. And people don’t associate them with radicalism and progressive politics like they do with Black billionaires.
Mic dropped 🎤 You nailed it to the wall. People spend their money on these celebrities and want to look like them and will argue with you if you say anything about it and at the end of the day when reality hits they’re complaining about money, bills and food prices. SMDH
@@jeanjmcceee5764 yes of course they’re all on the disgusting list that don’t give a flop about common everyday folks who crawl to buy what they’re selling
I’ll never forget when Jay was pressed on Kap getting a job in the NFL & he said something to the effect of “We’re moving on from kneeling… we’re focused on actionable items” I knew then that he had fully sold his soul.
I’m done listening to him tell everyone how rich he is in his music. It’s outdated & frankly, annoying….
💯
Yesss and this goes for all musiccc
Kap getting a job has nothing to do with Jay z lmfao....thats not how the NFL works...
But jay and B bailed out all the protesters lol...yall cant really hate this man that much🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️
Capitalism cannot and will never save our people especially when our physical bodies were one of the first versions of currency within this economic structure.
Jay Z is the consequence when we confuse a Black person gaining economic success and holding "gems" for financial power with actually being an activist for change. Jay Z clearly has not done his research and we are to blame for putting him on this high pedestal of philanthropy when he has tangibly done nothing for the black community except be a representative of the Black people in places we will never see and never be apart of. Place REAL activists at the pedastal of activism to be our spokespeople for REAL change, not celebrities that brainwash you into thinking you will be in their place while they benefit from you simutaneously feed into the capitalist society that keeps you poor and suffer injustice.
@@wandervoltz exactly!! I’m really starting to believe Black people who become extremely successful in a capitalist society end up with a skewed view of systematic racism and how it works.
Capitalism cannot and will never save our people especially when our physical bodies were one of the first versions of currency within this economic structure.
THIS RIGHT HERE!!!!!!
The last sentence of your first paragraph, oof. Tough but so compelling.
Well said. You're dropping knowledge ey. It's really disgusting.
@@BooDotBoo This woman, Kimberly, is literally talking all this anti-capitalism anti-materialism virtue signaling bullshhh while wearing a Gold Rolex watch. Smh this generation is Too hypocritical… Kimberly is example of someone profiting off of radical rhetoric for personal financial gain… she part of a generation of a bunch of phony articulate idi0ts using “intellectual masturbation” to virtue signal. Our generation should be ashame of itself
If Jay-Z thinks capitalism is a new word he has some reading to do.
Maybe he is also illiterate like his wife...allegedly 👀
Facts. That word was around long before he ever existed
He doesn’t read so what’s next
IIm so glad people are finally seeing this! Been saying this shit for years and I’ve struggled to connect w Beyoncé’s music in recent years. I’m Black British so I feel like my experience is slightly removed
I’ve always thought Beyoncé and JayZ representation of blackness was performative and I felt like it was taking advantage of the collective experience of AAs (and white guilt in more powerful spaces). While Beyoncé really hasn’t ever had to struggle financially and JayZ has been rich for coming up to 30 years. They’re so far removed and the cracks in the facade are showing 😖
Yeah, once Beyonce hit on this black power stuff, her music just became very not genuine. Some are still bangers, yes, but the soul she used to have is gone. It's just a vault of money, now. And it's sad to see because of how we saw her start out.
@@BooDotBoo right like girl stick to love songs and dance /twerk music 😭 i missed songs like dangerously in love and check on it. I didn’t like anything after 4 really
THIS!
Being Black is about more than just struggle and poverty. She’s not performative just because she hasn’t been poor. She’s still Black and has every right to celebrate that.
@@Myaccount923 people are allowed to experiment and grow and evolve. They don’t have to stick to the same old thing.
I think it’s about expecting celebrities to be community leaders, and that, they are not. That goes for any of them. Reading is not required for fame or money and our community doesn’t reward those that do. For Kanye to say that, he was mad Jay barely wanted to give him a loan. Black people seek wealth to escape poverty not as a means to unify or beat the system.
Jay Z started out as a street pharmacist in order to pull himself out of poverty. His roots were never community centered, so why would anyone think that this would really change with his financial status?
@@mc2383 this right here!
@@mc2383 and honestly I think we all could be doing something to unify and uplift the community yet here we are. We all are trying to “make it out” of poverty. We buy their products, we participate in capitalism, buy the tickets, the merch, the music, and we all can be very about the culture. Now I think Jay Z is defensive about his character being targeted but I don’t place unrealistic expectations on those ppl. They are not leaders, they’re just rich famous ppl.
@@MeghannMonroe I don't think someone like Fred Hampton (who embodied unification) would get far in this era. The new flex culture has made it so no one without obvious wealth is worth being heard. To be broke is now worse than being deceptive or deviant.
@@MeghannMonroe I couldn't agree more. I'd like to add that "Charity" is the mainstream outlet we have right now, which many celebrities have latched onto, but that only "band-aids" a problem for a moment, then it is right back to the cycle of powerlessness and oppression. Also Black People are 13-15% of the population and only 2% of Black families have a net worth of 1 million dollars... we are dealing with very small numbers here... I hope black people don't expect the 50 "super" wealthy black people in America that came 500+ years after the fact to uproot them or society at large from a hole they was placed into by 1000+ wealthy colonial Capitalist and their beneficiaries....
Jay-Z is a rich old Black man and he thinks and acts like most of them do 🤷🏽♀️
Oh! He always gave me power hungry and wanting to be like “the man” vibe.
He told on himself. He is struggling with now having actual power and money but is still reminded that he’s on the bottom of the hierarchy pole for “the real rich.”
Sounds like a tantrum to me. Ain’t no black male worship at the real top, brah 🤷🏾♀️
This!!!!! He told on himself, the rant was so nuanced
A woman on tiktok talked about how Beyoncé and jay x were playing in our face while our world was burning. They roasted that poor woman. I know she’s smiling now lom
Was she an astrologer? If so, I remember that and I agreed with her.
@@youwomanyou probably so I follow her on ig she was goin in
@@MsLiberianLady omg what's her @?
The people who speak our truth are hated because so many of us won't accept the reality of things. We keep thinking, one day, a rich black person will save us and take us to some promised land that doesn't exist.
@@cyborgsaiko @peoplesoracle
The culture has definitely changed. I keep seeing tweets asking Jay-Z, Diddy, Pharell and co to pay the talents on their labels, what they deserve. A growing part of Black people are over "Black capitalism" for sure.
@@abdullahdawood1624 be serious 😂
@@doggylover108 who has he exploited? Lmfaaaaaaaao
I was waiting on this! Jay Z has clearly never studied the man he cosplays. Basquiat through his art always explored oppression and he was anti-capitalist.
Not cosplay 🤣
Amen! He's ignorant and pathetic af. Nothing like Basquiat. I really do wonder if he was assassinated. 😓
Thank you!
Basquiat was only anti-capitalist on paper lmaaaaaaaao....he was a luxury consumerism ADVOCATE AND PARTICIPATED which is literally capitalism......you people are so delusional 😂😂😂😂
Truth be told we want to separate Beyoncé and Jay Z and cannot. Beyoncé's music in recent years is arguably extremely capitalist/classist. On top of the 5 year span where they gave us black power porn............they forget the SPREAD part of being black and wealthy is the real way them being rich would help ANYONE. They haven't started a bank, they haven't given out continuous grants for different groups of black people, nothing to actually bring EVERYONE BLACK up with them. Feeding us a dream because you're rich doesn't inspire anymore when we and our parents are struggling.
EXACTLY! Just like Kim said, it's all for aesthetics and we continue to fall for it hook, line and sinker. So it's like, when are we gonna stop making these people more relevant & rich...
Take a listen to old Destiny’s Child.
Beyoncé has always been traditional, patriarchal, and bourgeoisie.
There isn’t a rebellious bone in her body.
@@azureavocado5195 she was basically an heiress. Look at how she even BECAME famous. Black wealth was as important an ingredient as talent and dedication.
@@azureavocado5195 just a "pick me" bone babe.
@@sinovuyobudaza7167 fab socialism has a whole video on this and it was really enlightening.
This is why I didn't trust Beyonce's song...Break My Soul. Especially when later in the album she says "it should cost a billion to look this good". They love to play radical and revolutionary, but they just want a bourgeois revolution that leaves them on top. Remember that and don't admire celebrities. They will always fail you. Also, get intense hotep vibes from them and Kendrick Lamar.
Only a d*mb person will look to celebrities for radicalism
@Trinity M xxx 😊 Ppl
@Trinity M He also talked about how he loved dark skin...but his wife of years...is fair skin....nothing wrong with that...but don't use fake wokeness to sell to females and live another life behind the scene
@Trinity M my sister had that album on and I couldn’t stand her trying be the new Madonna with her faux queer allyship.
I knew Jay Z and Beyoncé were clueless about Black politics and community when she wore that diamond necklace that was definitely a blood diamond
Let’s not forget that Beyoncé was a Caucasian queen for her Mrs. Carter tour. Now, she’s promoting blackness for aesthetics.
She's black and can say and use blackness however the fvck she please........
Yep, I peeped that it’s like she’s wearing a mask, take one off, put another one on, based of where it benefits her.
Wait I need this tea. Do you mean she had a more eurocentric look?
@@senescence57 yes during the Mis Carter album
It's was laughable when he said "eat the rich" was a new concept ... Maybe he doesn't have access to Google because it's not that hard ...
It's the "DO YOU HAVE ACCESS TO BOOKS?" for me 😂 cuz sometimes I recognize that my deep knowledge of the complexities of capitalism comes from an Ivy league education but got damn I'm from Atlanta Public schools and was up in that library ALWAYS- being rich and ignorant has never been a goal. And in these efforts to form a misguided Black elite, it's just going to spark the same cycles of oppression we wish to escape from. I've been loving the truth of your vids lately!
Right. He made himself look like an absolute FOOL saying, what he said about 'capitalism'. He really should have paid someone to give him a basic lesson on what capitalism/capitalist means. Because his billionaire ignorance is not a good look.
When she said "slide you some CliffNotes"... I slid out of this mortal coil.
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Those books are, frankly, useless outside of analytical reviews of history. They're not projects towards the future.
This the comment right here! Chasing wealth as traumatized, uniformed people is not the solution.
I was born in 96. I’ve been a fan of Jay and Bey my entire life but as I educate myself more the harder it is to listen to them. Black capitalists need to accept capitalism is inherently anti-black. I’m so tired of talking in circles.
Inherently anti-Black and rooted in the despise of Africa and her peoples
Doesn’t mean he or anyone should sit ideally by and live under someone else’s wealth. That makes no sense.z
This does not make sense Lmao. How can capitalism be anti black? 😂 if capitalism is anti black then every damn thing is anti black lol
@@lacijohnson400 Captialism was built off slavery…..slavery is anti-black?
@@IamMrImpeccable It doesn’t make sense to claim to be pro-black and use pro-black imagery when you’re exploiting poor black folks and hoarding wealth. The fact that Jay Z said the term “capitalist” was just invented shows he isn’t as intelligent as he claims to be. Very similar to men like J Cole and Kanye. They want to be leaders but don’t want to do the actual work of educating themselves.
Fred Hampton would look Jay Z right in his face and tell him he’s doing it all wrong. Him rapping his name in watch the throne is so ironic it’s comedic
@@abdullahdawood1624 calling him a real one would imply he agrees with most of his beliefs no? Let’s stop the cap
His labels name is literally Rockefeller. What did we expect?
That part! 🎯
Facts!
This!!!🎯🎯🎯
The same Rockerfeller that made it possible for oil to be so cheap that poor people were able to light their homes, power machines that made it possible for goods to be produced cheaply etc Learn your history
@@bisiriyutajudeen5728 thank you for your perspective. Selling products at an affordable price should not be commendable. A profit was still attained I presume. In order to get a well rounded view of a person you should look at everything said person was involved in. Eugenics and philanthropy going hand in hand with nefarious intentions is where you should start.
The interviewer should have pushed back on that. If he thinks he's a billionaire because he worked hard, does he think he grew up in those conditions because his family was just lazy? My mom worked 16 hour shifts, 7 days a week and died at 60. She was not lazy.
No one becomes a billionaire from working hard. It's impossible, they become a billionaire from taking profits from hundreds of thousands of people who worked hard. In his specific case, don't they have a bunch of sweat shops somewhere? His music alone is only worth 75 million. The rest of that money comes from standing on people's necks. The fact he doesn't see that astounds me. I don't expect him to care, but he should at least realize it.
Very flawed and ignorant analogy. People become rich which essentially become billionaires because people like YOU value what they create and by their products.
She can only be a billionaire because people buy her products. You have a phone? Probably what your watching this on. A laptop, tv, car, air conditioning, make up, whatever? You enjoy all of these products, and then get angry because the people who came up with these products became wealthy because people like you bought them.
Puhlease! 🙄
@@lacijohnson400 There's nothing ignorant about OP's point. What you said and what they said can exist simultaneously. Yes, we buy cellphones because we see value in them, but if cellphone companies used ethically sourced materials and paid all their employees justly, CEOs of these companies wouldn't be billionaires.
Instead, children are exploited and abused in Congo to work in mines to source coltan, factory workers in China work in dangerous, unsanitary conditions for crumbs, etc.
It's this unethical, exploitative, evil cost-cutting that turns many top execs
into bilionnaires.
@@lemonline3719 you can be explain what’s “ethical and exploitative” means?
@@lacijohnson400 Most billionaires aren't genius inventors. They profit off the genius inventors who get paid more than most, but still aren't billionaires themselves. The genius inventor is just another worker that the billionaire extracts value from. And like the other person said, the products I buy are created by the labor of hundreds if not thousands of people and the value of that labor is stolen by that billionaire instead of given to the people who actually did the work. If you have a job, you have to realize this is true, that you make more money for the company than they pay you. If you didn't there would be no reason to hire you. Now multiple that across the world, and you have a handful of people profiting off the work of a billions.
@@MissKashira y’all say this like the billionaires point guns to the head of people and “steal” their inventions. People WILLINGLY sell their businesses to other people to make money. It’s transactional and is a win win for both parties.
But you know we don’t have to work for these greedy evil billionaires right? They’re so evil and wicked, nobody should buy their products or even work for them. Yet people everyday choose to submit applications, sign contracts with them and work for them. Please how is the value stolen?? When you agreed to the pay and the job?? Please make it make sense.
“ his radicalism is an aesthetic....” dats a whole word
Also I’m so happy that a channel like yours exist. I hope the people learn that you can be a fan of someone’s art and still critique them. Social media has made critiques a sign of hating. And that is far from the truth.
It’s seen as hating because it’s only ever directed towards one artist. It would seem more genuine if they all got equal smoke but that’s not the case.
@@lonspram3922 every artist who's a billionaire and says stupid shit does though.
WELL SAID. When it's their favourite celeb, it's almost like there's some unwritten rule, stating that you're NOT allowed to post constructive criticism about their actions.
@@lonspram3922 It's not directed toward one artist, it's not just Jay Z and Beyonce. Every entertainer gets talked about good or bad. The problem is, people like to idolize and worship these celebrities so much in this day and age, y'all act like they're above it all and no one can pull their card when they're on some BS. Everybody is not deaf, dumb and blind and ignore the obvious just cause they love what they do as entertainers and because they have mega-stardom and a billion dollars. They're human first, and they can be called out too, they're not exempt.
The critique do nothing cause Jay z will still make his money regardless lmfao
I cackled when you said he could just pay some to read for him because he really really could. He has that much money. I think that's all we're asking. If you're going to build a career on performance of black suffrage and then not give back. AT LEAST be quiet and read book (or pretend you read books).
He can surely afford an Audible subscription w/o a promo code, lol. I mean, I'd settle for him just gettin' the cliff notes atp. The fact of the matter isn't so much that he's unread, but that he's uninterested. The former can be easily fixed, the latter not so much.
I’m still confused like why is this billionaire sitting on twitter spaces?
To sell you more things, or to condition you to buy more
To get your approval because that’s the way they stay rich 🤷🏾♀️
Why are looking to Jay and beyonce who are entertainers for intellectual, financial, spiritual, and or psychological guidance. It's so sad that these are our role models ...people who wear costumes for a living, they perform. Where are parents, church leaders, teachers and professors, coaches as role models. There lies the problem. We look up to the wrong people. I could care less what Jay z believes or feels about capitalism or any other ideology. He is a rapper who made a shitton of money and learned about how to invest and grow his portfolio from people he gained access to because of the money he made and his desire to make more. Come on people damn.
We don't look up to Jay and Beyonce. That's the point of the video...
@@MissDuch WE don't hence why we watch Nicole's channel I find that the enlightened watch and read and digest material that helps progress us forward even more those who are unenlightened travel in darkness they consume info that feeds their ignorance and burds of a feather flock together. Even Nicole's grasp of vocabulary would scare off many. HELL I have to look up a word or two she uses sometimes. I just worry for the many who aren't here with you and me. Blessings to you.
@@MissDuch but you do because this video already has more views than most of her recent videos lmfao
Absolutely not my role models!
FINALLY A COMMENT THAT MAKES SENSE
Millennials are adults. We are adults. We are who “society” and the media thinks gen x is.
That’s deep
I feel like gen x is like the forgotten generation.
@@elle.roiproductions we ARE and I need it to STOP....
@@elle.roiproductions I’m Gen z and I like to call you guys the “nostalgia generation” or the xylophones
@@Pink_pr1ncess 😂😂😂 xylophones
"How are y'all laying up next to each other..." Kim your critical commentary is the best.
this man is talking about "capitalist" and 'eat the rich' bedbug slurs meanwhile hundreds if this not thousands of communities across the US don't have clean water ???!!!!
This! ☹️!
This is why Nipsey was arguably the most important figure in hip hop for this generation. He did what everyday black people ask rich black people to do: invest in the community...
And the community destroyed and killed him! Which is why most of them who made it. Dont go back, or invest in the hood. Unfortunately, we are our worst enemy!
@@chevynunubeautychroniclesm6034 Exactly!!
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which is why I dont believe there is a fix for this at all. Were gonna be stuck in this fight and limbo for as long as the institution stay erect.
@@jdkingsley6543 false. Investment in the advancement of black women has proven to be profitable and effective. Black women have become more educated and will soon out earn our black male counterparts. All hope is not lost.
@@Jujubean9795 We already do out-earn them.
In the words of Beyoncé, “I grew up going to private school”, she doesn’t have the range to speak on black radical economic thought if it hit in her in face.
Beyoncé has always upheld traditional patriarchal ideals.
Every image Beyoncé has ever released has been for the male gaze.
Almost every lyric Beyoncé has ever uttered ultimately supported phallic worship.
She has never had the range.
She has never had the vocabulary.
She has never cared.
Cue me getting dog-piled on Twitter in like 2015 for saying she grew up privileged. Ole-“she grew up in 3RD WARD”-headasses fell for the hood girl cosplay in the Soldier video real hard. I know we not a monolith but some BP really embarrass me with how gullible they are
Nah finish the whole statement. "I grew up going private schools, parents drove [insert vluxury vehicles]. People think because we're Black my parents were poor like The Jacksons. They weren't using me to get out of a bad situation". MISS JANET WAS NOT PLEASED!
@@WhoCares3001 They did use her to get out of poverty, because they were poor. Their lives depended on their jobs. With a daughter making millions they could be independent. People fall for nonsense because they don't think. It's funny that black women worship a woman who promotes whiteness.
@@WhoCares3001 when did she say this?
Capitalism is destroying the earth...I always thought that Beyonce used Blackness as a career opportunity.
You can't be that st*pid
Capitalism literally makes earth better
Yup, that's how I felt about Formation tbh
Socialism isn’t any better
He wants us to feel shame for critiquing that he hoards wealth and then invokes growing up in Marcy Projects as cover that’s he’s “down for the struggle”. What exactly has Jay contributed to Marcy Projects and its surrounding community for me to not roll my eyes? All that power, wealth, and access and all he could come up with was that Bitcoin academy????? PLEASE. MISS. TF. OUTTA. ME.
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I bet he didn't even grow up there. His grandma probably just lived there. Same with T.I, I am from Center Hill and NO ONE knew that ninja when he first came out over there. His grandfather lived over there and stayed down the street from me but he DID NOT live over there. He lived in Sandy Springs, which is not a bad area.
Y’all so entitled, nobody owes you anything.
Edit: except reparations from…
@@user-wt9xm6xz6l No he doesn't. The issue is all these people yelling that white folks don't do anything for our community so we should buy black, but those same black folks don't do anything for the community so I might as well buy white.
@@ashleyrogers1930 I totally understand where you coming from, but if I’m gonna make somebody else rich it might as well be another black person lol or we can stop being consumers all together.
I wanted to hear you go in a little more about Beyoncé 🤭I’m a fan of hers, but I don’t think she’s above a good critique every now and then.
She gets criticized more than 99.9% of celebs but go off
@@angechrisman1694 maybe she does but she also gets a lot of praise, probably more than 99.9% of celebrities so you go off 🤷🏾♀️The point is there’s room for both.
@@prettylady818 I love when y'all hold people to the fire 👏🏾🙌🏾👏🏾🙌🏾
@Carpe Diem Sounds like you've met them all and shaken their hands? For every Beyoncé fan, there are triple the haters. She is held to incredibly high standards - all the time. Nothing she does goes unnoticed, and all that she does is scrutinized, debated and magnified. As beloved as she is, she's also one of the most attacked celebrities. Her fans mostly come to her defence when absurd, unprovoked and baseless things are said about her, particularly when it comes to her work, talent and legacy. Let's be fair.
@@theovandermerwe997 i’m sorry but that’s just not true, her fans definitely outweigh her haters. and i think ppl hold her to the high standard because most ppl recognize she is the golden standard. you can disagree with the criticism, but let’s be honest…..
Also using homeownership to build wealth lowkey how we got into this mess. People used their homes to create wealth for themselves which made it harder for the rest of us to buy into the market. I mean because homeowners are about protecting their wealth, they will strict down initiatives that create affordable housing opportunities, because more homes makes the price go down.
In addition to the taxes that comes with it. Property value determines a huge chunk of tax revenue reproducing inequality
But homeownership does build wealth . I bought a house 10 years ago with no interest in keeping anyone else down. I wanted a roof over my head with monthly payments that don’t change. Now there’s 200k in equity and my mortgage for a 4br with a full basement is less than folks are paying to rent studios. We have to find a way to fix our situations without misunderstanding the rules of finance.
@@silkyslim2111 I think you missed the point of their comment. They never said it didn't build wealth.
@@silkyslim2111 I never said it didn't build wealth. I am saying that the wealth being built comes at the expense of future buyers and renters. It makes it harder for them to enter the market and it makes the cost of living soar. I didn't misunderstand anything. We can't have it both ways. Like yes, your mortgage is less than a studio apartment because you bought in the market early. Everyone else that comes after you doesn't get that same luxury. They have to deal with the studio that cost more than your mortgage, and a housing market that saw home values increase by $200k+. Yes you don't mean to keep people down, but that is the name of the game. It's not about you. It is the system (neoliberalism is truly bringing about societal collapse. My god.) that allow this cancer to take place.
During the endsars protests in Nigeria tiwa savage called Beyoncé out for her silence and her mom very quickly released an Instagram statement implying that she was out of line for expecting any support from her and that fuelled the narrative that she used yoruba culture as props…. Things like this (her husbands statements) don’t help these narratives… oh well …… life is lifing
A dumb narrative
The same ties savage that’s in league with Nigerian elites
@@Peteramaechi300 at least she stood up when it was needed. Knock it off!!!
Beyonce is just a mood and represents what is "hot" at the time. Neither she or Jay Z are about real people but about the culture that they profit from.
I'm a Beyonce STANN, BUT even I can admit, her being the wife of Jay Z and pretty much silently co-signing the stupid ish he says, makes it painfully evident and obvious that they are both not the brightest crayons in the box. I'm sorry. It had to be said.
I tell folks I love her but she don’t be researching!
"Silently co-signing"
If you were a BEYONCÉ Stan you would know she doesn't ever speak on anything anyone else says and she doesn't need to come out and say shit.........
Saying they're not the brightest crayons in the box doesn't make you bright either....
@@kinamonika oh please...
@@nielsenmakaba5777 you must be a paid puppet
@@alluringbliss4165 No. It's realizing that the easiest thing to do it sit in comment sections and insult their intelligence. None of you know them. If you saw them, they wouldnt smile in recognition. Criticism is fair.. but questioning their intelligence is stupid and lazy.
Jay Z talks a LOT, but he says very little. Some people buy into what he says because they idolize him & get lost in his word salad. He’s a very uneducated man who has accomplished a lot, too bad he doesn’t use his resources to educate himself.
@@abdullahdawood1624 just because someone is smart doesn’t mean they’ll be rich then scientists would be more paid than celebrities
@@abdullahdawood1624 being dumb and uneducated are two different things. Jay Z is uneducated or uninterested in the social and political areas he claims to speak for and it comes off that disingenuous. Scammers aren’t dumb. Just greedy. most know how to talk themselves out of a bad situation and into a good one until ppl start putting 2 and 2 together.
@@abdullahdawood1624 I think that if you are too smart it may be difficult to stomach unabashed capitalism. Like there are certain things you have to ignore or just not care about like sweatshops in poorer countries.
Maybe ignorance can be bliss in the pursuit of money.
But anyway, there are certainly different kinds of intelligence so it's kind of immature to say your not smart in this particular thing so you must be dumb and vice versa.
FACTS!!!!!
FACTS!!!!
We as black people should take the focus off of Jay Z and Beyonce and apply focus on more important issues and priorities. If we truly want to be black radicals then let's use an approach identical to the Harlem Renaissance and Black Wall Street. Let's reprogram our way of thinking when it comes to economics, investing, education, relationships and especially black unity. We can critique Jay Z for the duration of 2022. But, it takes ACTION to rectify the severe problems in disenfranchised communities.
Considering Jay Z recently tried to get people in Marcy crypto seminars instead of paying some damn bills or investing in the buildings renovations, none of this surprises me. What surprises me is how people still have standards for him lol.
In the article about his tone deaf crypto grift, a guy said “I grew up with Jay Z. He’s a billionaire and I don’t have shit.”
Finally, 20 years and billions of dollars later, someone is calling them out on their sh*t.
"We don't have time to go into neoliberalism girl I have to get my hair done" I FELT THAT IN MY SOUL!!!!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
When I was an undergraduate, I applied for a scholarship from the Sean Carter Foundation. The essay question was literally something along the lines of-How can lower income people get out of poverty? 😂😂😂
As an older 30+ adult I realize how problematic that question is. Especially since a requirement was to be from a disadvantaged socio-economic background.
The amount of people commenting on posts « Jay and Bey are still laughing to the bank » proves that majority of their stans don’t know the complexity of capitalism either and its going right over their heads😭😭😭😭
I always thought Jay Z was illiterate. Every time he opens his mouth its always underwhelming or cringe...nice gowns, beautiful gowns...
I say the same about Beyonce. She has busted more than a few verbs in interviews I've seen.
I think Jay Z and probably Beyonce too are in a place in their lives where no one can tell them anything. So no wonder he's out of touch.
Im 28, and I literally have no hope for my future.
I know I won’t be able to afford a house, idk what my future will look like, but I’m invested in dethroning the rich, they are the reason why we end up being the poor ones
I can always count on you to be on the pulse and coming through with perfect takes!
Part of the challenge here is the assumption that Jay Z and the like…have done the work to close the knowledge gap. These are not well read, or race conscious individuals, and they bring that lack of knowledge to spaces like Clubhouse etc. To be race conscious is not just to call out the obvious inequities between different groups but to identify the systems that create the inequities and realize you may benefiting from those systems.
Jay told us everything we needed to know about him when he sat on the stage with Roger Goodell WITHOUT Kap and told blk America that the boycott was over because HE MADE A DEAL.
I was already on board with eating Jay Z, but now im doubling down
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You have a better chance at eating a unicorn than eating the rich lmfao
@@nielsenmakaba5777 it’s happened many times in history you need to read just like Jigga Man
@@marilynmonheaux6356 beloved you have a better chance eating a Unicorn than eating the rich....its not about what happened in the past LMFAAAAAAAAAO..
Stop being delusional
yeah this made me realize that man does not read. if he picked up a book or even a speech from any of the men he be cosplaying he wouldnt fix his mouth on a public platform and claim that “capitalist” is a made up term. like that really left me dumbfounded. i knew he was long gone but the fact that he doesnt even READ?!?! yeah it’s just so disgusting.
I remember me (a black woman) and a Hispanic female telling our white, Bible study that socialism is good. They gasped, but we explained it to them and they were like oh. They never knew what it was, just felt it was bad.
They’re not alone in that assumption 😒
Omg something called me here. Then Boom my favorite dropped
The way you lay out every single point and provided the evidence for! *chef kiss* brilliance all up in through this!!!
When he was selling t-shirts at Occupy Wall Street, I was officially done. I saw him through a capitalist lens from that point on. It was not just an image for music videos, it was part of who he is. I would be more shocked if I found out he fully engaged politically and intellectually with social issues. There were tons of red flags in the past but people seemed to brush them off.
I need “its a google search” on a Tshirt asap 🤣🤣🤣
Gosh videos like this remind me why you are my favorite video essay creator.
So incredibly inspired by the way you are able to put “tough” topics into a more digestible take.
“DO YOU HAVE ACCESS TO BOOKS?!”
What a quote. I will never forget that 😩😩😩
And this is why we shouldn’t care about what entertainers think about serious matters they haven’t actually studied. Just throw your money into the movement like they did back in the day and let the actual organizers handle business.
Its a lot bigger than this - a lot of Hip Hop culture is built on acquiring wealth and flexing it... we can't be just mad at him and not the bigger picture
I just so appreciate hearing this from a Black woman, specifically a financially successful, mainstream educated one. I feel seen with a POV that I also share yet often feel lonely in.
“DO YOU HAVE ACCESS TO BOOKS” 😂.
That part.
Whew chile. Jay-Z ain't touch wild, unkempt grass in a minute huh 😂
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I know I have heard that they have been very charitable to many causes, as well as philanthropic in the art world. However, I agree with your take. Offering money to organizations to help ameliorate suffering of people, or supporting the arts to further growth of the people, is one thing. Using your voice and your funds to promote and lobby for policy and bills that would actually work towards solving the suffering of people is a completely different thing. That is radical. That is revolutionary. Its putting your celebrity on the line for something greater.
He also invested in a private prison venture
@@WhoCares3001 Wow!
Do you people realise that no amount of policies, bills, or even charity giving is going to solve suffering? People have donated BILLIONS to different charities and also towards to the actually people suffering, nothing has come out of it. It’s not revolutionary, it’s just waste of money.
he doesn't have to do anything, did you buy his album?
i really enjoy this side of you Kim. as a young millennial (26 on the 11th this month)… i’m so occupied with my day to day financial struggles all this shit you discussed is above me right now. i learned a lot watching this, and as much as i love Bey this did open my eyes to a lot. anyway, thank you for what you do… love you!
At least RiRi helps her island out with the money!!!
As usual, right on point! It is a very cautiously cultivated image the Carters have been showing for years now. But to me it always felt off, and you summed up the essence of it in this vid. Thanks!
I’m so glad we are FINALLY having these conversations. It’s vital for any sort of evolution.
You really said a word in this one!
Completely in awe how Martin Luther King Jr was able to summarize the main problem with capitalism in a couple of sentences . Yeah ima have to recommend that article to a couple of people
There have been rich black people since the beginning of time. These newly rich entertainers want you to believe that they are the first of their kind and should be a protected class. It’s not just absurd but historically inaccurate. I wish he would just make his money and be quiet like his other black billionaire peers. Instead he’s miserable because he wants something he can’t have and that’s to be beloved and respected in the space of activism.
LOVE your FIERCENESS,ENERGY and PASSION. We need more and more people speaking up ⬆️ plus spreading the truth. We’re at a point in the country and in the world where people in GenZ and Gen alpha have to protest as well as fight against these issues. Hopefully Generation Beta doesn’t have to deal with bill that’s going on now
This is an excellent video! Learned so much. Especially the connection between home ownership and conservative political views
ugh i love your commentary. able to put everything i think into words so eloquently!
I'm just saying, when Beyonce came out at the Super Bowl dressed like Michael Jackson and a black panther, then announced her world tour. I wanna be wrong but ...mmmm I told y'all these Tiffany deals, NFL, etc. Mmmmm, I'm good. Okay I wrote this before Kim actually said it! Yeeeeees
8:10 _"your black radicalism it's only about Aesthetics , it's a Costume, it's a Performance"_ yessss kweeeen 👏
When you are in a different environment than before it’s easy to lose touch to what you faced. That’s why it’s very good to keep in touch with your roots. MJ seems like the only celebrity who didn’t lose his humanity and humbleness. It came from poor beginnings but kept the same energy as a billionaire.
I do agree that Beyoncé and Jay Z serve an aesthetic. However, differing from what you said at the end, I think it’s useful. Not one Black person, at that ONE Black celebrity, should be responsible for shifting the culture. I think Black celebrities contribute in ways that protect them/their legacies/private issues. I think all Black celebrities contribute from their own angle. “Painting an aesthetic” that motivates the masses to address these issues is a powerful influence. Everybody plays their part.
Such an interesting post thank you for addressing this! One of the most heartbreaking moments working as a Speech Pathologist in a Marcy Projects charter school stays with me to this day. #11yearsago The kids were SO into “Jay-Z is from here”. None of them could see that that man has done nothing for their community but shoot a music video there. He has no care in the world about you but wouldn’t mind if you and your parents bought his music. So sad!!
I love a Jay-Z song as much as anyone else but that truly broke my heart! At least Beyoncé popped up at a few schools during the Obama administration to dance with the kids. *deep long sigh
I found myself asking would it have killed him to at least set up a program at the Barclays stadium for the kids to be bussed in for free basketball for one day or one hour!?
Wow! Sad indeed. Smh 😞
“Capitalism steals dreams!” 🤯…
Woman you are so fire with the analysis🔥🔥🔥
Thank you for providing resources at the end of your video 😊
Thank you!! I’ve been trying to figure out how to articulate this for years and you did it excellently 🙏🏽