The blogger praised Jay as a businessman, but disagreed with how Hov allegedly acquires black consumers before selling businesses to white people. Every time Jay-Z makes a business move, the Rap mogul’s intentions are questioned. It happened when he announced he would acquire Tidal, it happened when he announced his collaboration with the NFL, and new talks are being held now that it has been shared that Jay and Jack Dorsey have agreed a monumental deal for Square, Inc. to acquire Tidal’s majority stake, a handshake that reportedly made Jay-Z nearly $ 300 million richer. However, Akademiks has a bone to choose from with Jay-Z, as the blogger calls him because he was supposedly playing on both sides of the field. After praising Jay as a “great businessman,” Akademiks received some criticism of the Roc Nation mogul. “Jay-Z bought a company, he said it was for black creators. He said people shouldn’t support Apple and Spotify because they’re owned by whites and he wanted to have something for culture, for artists. , of the artists., and wanted to keep it owned by Black and wanted to do so.He did a lot of gigs alongside the B and liked to talk about Black’s excellence, Black Power, you should give it a go. support because he owned a Black business even though we later found out when they went to Sweden at Tidal’s headquarters, almost none of Tidal’s employees or senior executives were black. “ Akademiks noted that Jay made a deal with Tidal with Sprint, where he retired from hundreds of millions and that now the rest of his shares belong to Square. “The black-owned Tidal is now owned by Jack Dorsey, the white man.” He accused Jay-Z of being a businessman with “bait and switch” and added, “That’s the only thing I don’t like about his way of doing things.” “He doesn’t do it for black people, he does it for his own selfish means,” Akademiks stated. Swipe to see more details of Akademiks analyzing Jay-Z’s movements and let us know if you agree or disagree with his view.
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