{"id":63149,"date":"2022-09-01T20:58:04","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T20:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/were-not-gonna-be-tricked-out-of-our-position-rolling-stone\/"},"modified":"2022-09-01T20:58:04","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T20:58:04","slug":"were-not-gonna-be-tricked-out-of-our-position-rolling-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/were-not-gonna-be-tricked-out-of-our-position-rolling-stone\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We&#8217;re Not Gonna Be Tricked Out of Our Position&#8217; \u2013 Rolling Stone"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<span class=\"lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-012\">After dropping a<\/span>  rare and nearly instantly beloved four-minute verse on the title track of DJ Khaled&#8217;s latest album, \u201cGod Did,\u201d rap veteran Jay-Z joined Khaled, journalists Rob Markman and Ari Melber, and more for an even rarer public conversation by the song via Twitter Spaces on Wednesday night.  In it, Jay discussed his ascent from poverty to billionaire status \u2014 and seemed to respond to critics who have called the mogul and his first capitalists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n<p>\tAfter Markman prompted him to discuss his history of bolstering financial opportunities for others, especially reported billionaires Rihanna, Kanye West, and LeBron James, Jay said, \u201cYeah, we&#8217;re not gonna stop.  You know, hip hop is young, we still growing, and we&#8217;re not falling for that trick-nology whatever, you know, this public puts out there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n<p>\t\u201cBefore was the American dream, &#8216;Pull yourself by the bootstraps, and you can make yourself\u2026you can make it in America,&#8217; all these lies that America told us our whole life,\u201d Jay continued.  \u201cAnd then when we start getting in, they tried to lock us out of it.  They start inventing words like you know, &#8216;capitalist,&#8217; you know, things like that.  I mean, you know, we&#8217;ve been called &#8216;n\u2013ger&#8217; and &#8216;monkeys&#8217; and shit.  I do not care;  those words y&#8217;all come up with.  Y&#8217;all gotta come up with stronger words.\u201d <\/p>\n<div class=\"injected-related-content \/\/ lrv-u-border-t-1 lrv-u-padding-t-025 lrv-u-margin-tb-2 alignnone\">\n<div class=\"injected-related-content-inner \/\/ lrv-u-flex lrv-u-flex-direction-row@desktop-xl lrv-u-flex-direction-column@desktop lrv-u-flex-direction-column@desktop-max lrv-u-border-b-1 lrv-u-border-t-1 lrv-u-padding-b-1@desktop-xl lrv-u-padding-b-00 lrv-u-padding-t-1 lrv-u-padding-t-075@mobile-max\">\n<div class=\"injected-related-content-primary \/\/ lrv-u-padding-b-1 lrv-u-padding-b-00@desktop-xl lrv-u-width-64p@desktop-xl\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  lrv-u-margin-l-125@mobile-max lrv-u-margin-l-125 lrv-u-margin-t-050@mobile-max lrv-u-margin-l-00@mobile-max\">\n<div class=\"lrv-a-crop-3x2 lrv-a-crop-1x1@mobile-max\" style=\"\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p><div class=\"ast-oembed-container\" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jay-Z Breaks Down &quot;God Did&quot; Verse With DJ Khaled And Rob Markman\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/81a581wv1G4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen title=\"Jay-Z Breaks Down \"God Did\" Verse With DJ Khaled And Rob Markman\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n<p>\tAlso on Wednesday, audio of Ari Melber&#8217;s MSNBC segment, in which he broke down the rapper&#8217;s \u201cGod Did\u201d verse, was uploaded to Jay-Z&#8217;s Spotify page as a nearly 12-minute \u201caudiobook\u201d titled \u201cHov Did.\u201d  Through the segment, Melber \u2014 who often weaves rap into his reporting and commentary on his show, <em>The Beat<\/em> \u2014 Jay&#8217;s storytelling as a reflection of the rapper&#8217;s incredibly successful transition from the illegal drug trade to the entertainment business and other ventures as a systematically unlikely one given explains the US government&#8217;s often racist, hypocritical, and ever-shifting War on Drugs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n<p>\t\u201cCountless people have spent their lives in prison for the kinds of things he made billions rapping about, and that failed government policy&#8217;s disproportionate ongoing impact on Black people has been well documented,\u201d <em>Rolling Stone<\/em>&#8216;s Simon Vozick-Levinson wrote of Jay-Z, \u201cGod Did,\u201d and the War on Drugs recently.  \u201cJay sounds more and more like the eloquent advocate for criminal justice reform he&#8217;s become in recent years as the verse heats up: &#8216;Back and forth on this turnpike, really took a toll on &#8217;em\/Lot of fallen soldiers on these roads of sin \/For those who make the laws, I&#8217;ma always have smoke for them.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p><div class=\"ast-oembed-container\" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Nixon-Trump\u2019s Failed Drug War Shredded In Epic New Jay-Z Hit\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qias8PS6Bmk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n<p>\tIn yesterday&#8217;s Twitter Space, Jay continued to spar with American inequity but also seemed to take issue with the idea of \u200b\u200baddressing it by targeting the wealthy.  \u201cWe&#8217;re not gonna be tricked out of our position,\u201d he said.  \u201cY&#8217;all locked us out.  Y&#8217;all created a system that, you know, doesn&#8217;t include us.  We said fine.  We went our alternate route.  We created this music.  We did our thing, you know, we hustle, we fucking killed ourselves to get to this space.  And, you know, now it&#8217;s like, you know, you know, &#8216;Eat the rich,&#8217; and, man, we&#8217;re not stopping, so that evolution is, you know, from us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n<p>\tIn recent years, \u201cEat the rich\u201d \u2014 a hyperbolic phrase born in reflection on the French Revolution, after which quality food for the poor ran scarce \u2014 has reemerged as a rallying cry against extreme social and economic stratification in America. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n<p>\tJay-Z has long touted entrepreneurship as a means of changing the material conditions of poor communities, Black ones in particular, and he&#8217;s not alone.  \u201cFrom Malcolm X&#8217;s speeches calling black communities to build companies larger than General Motors to Jay-Z&#8217;s &#8216;The Story of OJ,&#8217; in which the rapper tells dealers to &#8216;take your drug money and buy the neighborhood,&#8217; tales of entrepreneurial liberation have been on heavy rotation in the culture for generations,\u201d journalist Aaron Ross Coleman wrote for the <em>nation<\/em> in an article called \u201cBlack Capitalism Won&#8217;t Save Us.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n<p>\tColeman points to the mammoth task the rhetoric of Black capitalism \u2014 investment in creating and patronizing Black-owned businesses and entrepreneurial endeavors \u2014 fails to overcome: closing the racial wealth gap for the many.  Instead, Coleman&#8217;s work posits that rather than relying on wealthy Black leaders to change economic conditions with policies and partnerships that empower them, the federal government must engage in reparations and targeted anti-poverty programs to catch and lift a wider net. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n<p>\t\u201cIf we are to ever create economic justice, we must change the way our art conceptualizes that justice,\u201d says Coleman.  \u201cWe must change the stories we tell.  We must tell the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n\t! function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n\t\tif (f.fbq) return;\n\t\tn = f.fbq = function() {\n\t\t\tn.callMethod ?\n\t\t\t\tn.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments)\n\t\t};\n\t\tif (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n\t\tn.push = n;\n\t\tn.loaded = !0;\n\t\tn.version = '2.0';\n\t\tn.queue = [];\n\t\tt = b.createElement(e);\n\t\tt.async = !0;\n\t\tt.src = v;\n\t\ts = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n\t\ts.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s)\n\t}(window, document, 'script',\n\t\t'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n\tfbq('init', '204436500352178');\n\tfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After dropping a rare and nearly instantly beloved four-minute verse on the title track of DJ Khaled&#8217;s latest album, \u201cGod Did,\u201d rap veteran Jay-Z joined Khaled, journalists Rob Markman and Ari Melber, and more for an even rarer public conversation by the song via Twitter Spaces on Wednesday night. In it, Jay discussed his ascent &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/were-not-gonna-be-tricked-out-of-our-position-rolling-stone\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;We&#8217;re Not Gonna Be Tricked Out of Our Position&#8217; \u2013 Rolling Stone<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":58267,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/jay-zs-verse-on-dj-khaleds-god-did-is-a-master-class-in-mature-lyricism-rolling-stone\/","url_meta":{"origin":63149,"position":0},"title":"Jay-Z&#8217;s Verse on DJ Khaled&#8217;s &#8216;God Did&#8217; Is a Master Class in Mature Lyricism \u2013 Rolling Stone","date":"August 27, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"What does DJ Khaled do, exactly? 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