Any time I see the Jay Z-Kaepernick debate spark up again on social media, I am reminded of this Jay Z line.
No red hat, don’t Michael and Prince me and ‘Ye
They separate you when you got Michael and Prince’s DNA, uh
It really isn’t good for the culture, because the real enemy is just sitting back watching us destroy ourselves from the inside.
Here is what Jay had to say about Kap while explaining why he can handle the negative feedback from his NFL partnership.
This work makes Roc Nation hope its efforts with the N.F.L. may defy the skeptics and help further both Jay-Z’s and Mr. Kaepernick’s missions. “We are two adult men who disagree on the tactic but are marching for the same cause,” Jay-Z said.
Now is the time, he said, for the conversation needs to move beyond only Mr. Kaepernick. “No one is saying he hasn’t been done wrong,” Jay-Z said. “He was done wrong. I would understand if it was three months ago. But it was three years ago and someone needs to say, ‘What do we do now — because people are still dying?’”
Roc Nation has not said how much money it stands to make from the deal. “We didn’t say, ‘Let’s go make some money off the N.F.L.,’” Jay-Z said.
Jay-Z said he can live with the criticism if he is able to use the N.F.L.’s platform to convince white football fans that they too should be concerned about police brutality. “As long as real people are being hurt and marginalized and losing family members, then yes, I can take a couple rounds of negative press,” he said.
I hear what Hov is saying, but the problem is that when you leave Kaepernick behind it is always going to make people feel some sort of way.
It maybe hypocritical for people like Eric Reid to be critical while cashing an NFL check, but Kaepernick has a legitimate beef in the fact he has been blackballed.
Maybe one day they will come together, but the reality is, black people are still being wronged and murdered, Jay Z is helping with that, so people should be focused on that and not the disagreement with Kap.
Flip the page for Jay Z initially speaking on his deal with NFL.