The hilarious thing is pretending like people that are tied to Kendrick are immune to criticism in the first place

Doechi getting destroyed on here just for being on his old label

I am serious

You said Hov is rightfully one of the most criticized artists on here

That implies that you think it’s right that Hov gets more hate for being a capitalist than a lot of artists get for being abusers

Not only forcing Kendrick into this but acting like Kendrick supersedes Jay Z is hilarious

And acting like Kendrick, or Jay Z, are never criticized is also hilarious and somehow Kendrick gives diplomatic immunity to people he done business with

And while acting like "now" their relationship is new when Kendrick and Jay Z been known each other and worked with each other since 2012 along with TDE

Give it up

Nigga thinks it’s Roc Nations fault nobody agrees with him

what do you stand for?

I’d rather die enormous than live dormant

9 to 5 is how you survive, I ain’t tryna survive I’m tryna live it to the limit and live it a lot

??? y’all sound like hov is peter thiel or something wtf

The casino bid has been rejected.

I f*** wit Jay but a casino in Time Square sounded like a nightmare. I try to avoid that area altogether anyway… better off bringing back the peep shows

He’s talking like he’s starting a non profit charity. F*** outta here.

LMFAOAOAOAOAOAOAO

C***members as in c***cac like that f***in c**

CACs strike again. Smh

"HOV, through his entertainment firm, Roc Nation, poured “hundreds of millions” into a stake in the project, according to its CEO, Desiree Perez.

Then Roc Nation joined Holliday’s company, SL Green, and Caesars Entertainment in spending millions and millions more promoting it to sometimes-wary lawmakers, municipal bureaucrats, and the public at large.

The goal: secure one of three licenses for casinos in the New York City area."

via Vanity Fair

“We’re not saying, ‘Give it to us because we happen to be Black, Hispanic, and female,’”

Perez tells me, right before the big vote. “No, that’s not what we’re saying. Of course not.

But we are saying, ‘Don’t ignore who we are, what we stand for, where we come from, where we’ve been, everything that we’ve accomplished.

Please don’t ignore that.’”

"And as for the forces opposing the casino? The theater types, who worry that tourists might gamble away their Broadway money?

Or that a casino might poison Broadway’s delicate ecosystem?

Create traffic armageddon in midtown?

Well, to borrow a phrase from a different rapper: not like us.

Jay-Z’s allies argued that opponents weren’t just a bunch of finger-wagging hall monitors standing in the way of thousands of Black and brown people getting casino jobs.

They were, according to Sharpton, “oligarchs.” It was an ironic choice of words, given Jay-Z’s billionaire status."

"But the opposition had its own case to make—and that case ultimately prevailed.

Casinos weren’t just dangerous to the theater community, they argued.

They rarely bring the revenue they promise—one of the casinos in upstate New York, for instance, is pursuing a deal with the county right now worth up to $585 million to stay afloat.

So, lots of risk with little reward. What’s more, casinos tend to bleed money from the sorts of communities Jay-Z says he represents.

Promises to the contrary were empty and even harmful to the community—kind of like the ones coming from the former casino owner who’s now in the White House."

"Jay-Z’s interest in a casino goes back more than 15 years.

At the time, New York State was looking to build a slot parlor near the decrepit Aqueduct horseracing track.

One of the bidders tapped Jay-Z for informal “marketing and community advice.”

That bidder eventually won, beating out companies like SL Green.

But after that deal collapsed, Resorts World, a subsidiary of a Malaysian firm, was given the Aqueduct contract instead.

Today, that depressing slot parlor not far from JFK Airport is the most lucrative gambling hall in America outside of Las Vegas, bringing in nearly a billion dollars in annual gaming revenue."

"Jay-Z and Roc Nation continued to explore casino deals.

Then in 2022, SL Green chief Marc Holliday was chatting with Jay-Z courtside at a Brooklyn Nets game.

Maybe, they discussed, they could try together to get into an even higher-stakes contest, for one of the licenses for a full-blown casino in or around the city.

Holliday and Perez were both honorees at a local charity dinner a few days later.

They started ironing out the details.

Roc Nation announced its involvement in the Times Square casino bid at the end of that year.

Not long after, the Broadway League, which represents theater owners and producers, began mobilizing support against it."

"What unfolded was a miniature political campaign, similar to what was happening at almost a dozen different sites.

On one side: the promise of more work and the buzz that comes with billions in economic activity.

On the other: fears that a casino would leech more from the neighborhood than it would add.

Every casino bidder promised hundreds of millions in improvements to the community around them; each casino bid faced opponents who noted those payments were a rounding error compared to the money to be made.

The ultimate goal for those campaigns was to persuade those six people on the community advisory committee to vote their way."