Jay-Z Admits To Not Understanding The Occupy Wall Street Movement




No one can deny Jay-Z's talent as an artist and his intelligence as a business man. However, just like all of us, he too has his shortcomings.

The rapper mogul indulged in a recent interview with the New York Times that he doesn't fully understand the Occupy Wall Street Movement.

He admitted that he is left speculating what the protest group is actually trying to do.

Jay-Z also revealed that he believed that movement was attempting to but the wealthy (such as himself) in a false light.

Here are some quotes from his NYT profile:

"What’s the thing on the wall, what are you fighting for? I’m not going to a park and picnic, I have no idea what to do, I don’t know what the fight is about. What do we want, do you know?"

"When you just say that ‘the one percent is that,’ that’s not true. Yeah, the 1 percent that’s robbing people, and deceiving people, these fixed mortgages and all these things, and then taking their home away from them, that’s criminal, that’s bad. Not being an entrepreneur. This is free enterprise. This is what America is built on."

His confusion comes as a surprise since last year he was seen wearing and profiting from a line of T-shirts that displayed the phrase "Occupy All Streets."

In addition it was reported that he didn't share any proceeds with the organization the fashion design stemmed from.

Occupy Guitarmy
, a smaller group of the OWS Music Working community, plans to offer a genuine answer to Jay-Z's question at his concert on September 28th at the Barclays Center.

The group managed to give a preview of their answer on their Tumblr page. Here is what it said:

We have spent one year on the streets organizing for exactly the things Jay rapped about in his early days, ending urban poverty, ending Stop & Frisk and police use of lethal force, of returning dignity and hope to the everyday people of New York City. These are simple civil rights issues we know Jay-Z must support, and we would love to help open his heart and mind to the work Occupy has helped do in his own former communities.

What do you think about Jay-Z's confusion on the OWS concept and which side do you think he is on?

Source: NewsOne

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Comment by Mone on September 14, 2012 at 5:52am
@Philip none of what I said come fro.m the internet its all facts and if you know so much you tell me what wasn't Mr.context / conform. Dudes like you amaze me. I'm not about to go back and forth with you son on the internet. Out of all I said all you heard was titties
Comment by Phil Marshall on September 14, 2012 at 5:37am
@Mone you mean (Verb) and you used it in the context of conforming. Your comment came across as people getting killed if they don't tell secrets. I'm just saying if you're trying to spread some knowledge then you would probably want people to understand what you're saying, or you might as well not comment at all. Then you call someone a "dumb a**" followed by "intelligent." Come on get off the internet it's f****** with your head.
Comment by BuckDat on September 13, 2012 at 12:52pm
Corporations (ie. the 1%) have all the political power....what's so hard to understand about that? It's very simple.
Comment by Mone on September 13, 2012 at 9:22am
@Phillip Marshall I mentioned know what I said you dumb a** intelligent n****. All that I said which made since you found one fuucckin word. Fyi confide is a(Verd ) meaning to trust someone with a secret enough to tell someone. Meaning there secret society they didn't trust in them they didn't cooperate. You know what I'm saying suckka
Comment by Columbus J on September 13, 2012 at 9:08am
@ 1THUG aka SUPPREEM MACRIFF!!
Knowledge born.
Comment by Phil Marshall on September 13, 2012 at 9:06am
@Mone what do you mean if they don't confide they kill them.... Acting like you know what you're talking about and don't even know the meaning of confiding in someone. You mean conform.
Comment by BlackEskimo on September 13, 2012 at 8:49am
This is how you know Jay Z is a puppet. Occupy Wall street came out and someone higher up must have asked him to wear an Occupy All Streets shirt to throw people off. Now you get to hear how this guy can't even comprehend the movement. Just like his 40/40 club food violations getting closed, and him owning less than 1% of the Nets. Professor Griff seems correct, this was all given to him.
Comment by TOTCD on September 13, 2012 at 8:11am
Jay-Z is right. Just keeping it real.
Occupy wallst most people don't know what it is they're trying to accomplish.
They're also infiltrated by anarchists.
Comment by Jimmie on September 13, 2012 at 6:10am
Jay-Z is corporate w****, just like Fifty ;)
Comment by Mone on September 13, 2012 at 5:49am
This n**** Jay z is a clown a puppet and any celebrity don't matter what color who don't confide they kill them but what are we going to start doing about it instead of complaining eye for an eye. They say Whitney Huston final cause of death she drowned but autopsy show no water in her lungs. All the celebrities that died you tell me one who how whos sold there souls none only the good one's think about it. The crushed Michael Jackson character in the public eye to make it seem believable that his depression drove him to prescription drugs. He never had a problem moon walking cause of drugs we never heard of him using drugs. Whitney was a professional coke user real s***. There trying to control everything all the way down to the weather is a government program called. H.A.R.P with stands for High Altitude Research Project there cause hurricanes tsunamis etc..

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