So you would rather these white executives go get Steve Stoute to get JayZ to promote their shyt? Cut out the middle man. Nikkaz don't root against Nike to fail, nikkaz wait in line for hours to buy some overpriced bullshyt some Chinese kid put together. You don't have to buy Jay's service but actively rooting for it to fail is absolute c00n behavior. Russell Simmons came out with Phat Farm clothing line, which sparked Sean John to go to new levels. Even if Tidal fails, hopefully it will spark other black tech entrepreneurs. Whites have always utterly discounted the purchase power of blacks. And a lot of blacks utterly discount themselves when they think the path to success is to stay far away from your people.
Obama did not have black support at first. Black people were for Hillary. They thought it was cute that Obama was running and purely symbolic and not realistic. When Obama started to look very viable black people ran to kiss his feet.
"what you eat don't make me sh!t" -- jay- z--- but i can invest in $aapl and $goog and eat with/off them. Tidal ain't in peoples 401k and i doubt they will go public anytime soon, lol.
and people only want to see jay-z fail because of the way he carries himself and he thinks he can swag is way into a field dominated by "nerds". what type of coding can jay-z do? what is his tech background in which he earned stripes? i feel people would be more receptive and stick with the "black kid" in general if it was a black kid that created an app with a laptop in the projects or in his mamas basement that had some technical knowledge. granted it's music, but a music app by jay-z doesn't seem authentic enough as him being a tech guy and he seems like a celebrity face instead of grassroot creating/re-creating something imo. his image is wrong to a degree and his initial promotion of a-list music people didn't help.
and obama proved viable in 2004 when they were talking about his speeches....just figured he needed more experience and 2016 would be his yr, turns out it we had them backwards, lol. everyone seems like a sacrificial lamb for Hilary as far and democrats can only put out Martin O'malley to go against her, but he's responsible for the police being idiots in b-more when he was mayor and ran private business out of Maryland as governor we had to put in a republican.