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No one is more consistent in pissing off Black Twitter than Jay-Z whenever he opens his mouth to endorse capitalism and defend his billionaire status—things he frankly does way too often.
That was, once again, the case on Wednesday night when the Brooklyn rapper joined a Twitter Space hosted by journalist Rob Markman along with DJ Khaled to promote their recent song “God Did” from the producer’s new album of the same name. In a snippet being circulated on social media, Jay-Z addresses those who have criticized his business ventures and pro-capitalist approach to activism throughout his career.
“We not gone stop,” the musician said. “Hip-hop is young. We still growing. We not falling for that trick-nology the public puts out there now. Before it was the American Dream. ‘Pull yourself up by your bootstraps. You can make it in America’—all these lies that America told us our whole life. And then when we start getting it, they try to lock us out of it. They start inventing words like ‘capitalist’ and things like that. We’ve been called n—–s and monkeys and shit. I don’t care what words y’all come up with. Y’all gotta come with stronger words.”