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ESSENCE Now's "Slayed or Shade" panel takes on Jay-Z's recent interview with Rap Radar where he discusses Black wealth and Lavar Ball.
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00:00now lastly in an interview with rap radar podcast jay-z questioned why black people don't support
00:09black entrepreneurs and he used basketball dad laval ball as his example that man has a vision
00:16of his own why why wouldn't i support him right why wouldn't i support him he feels like he can
00:21move coach and his son got a big enough name and a big enough brand that they can do it nike had
00:27to start somewhere why do we get so upset when we us as a culture we want to start our own
00:32now some folks believe jay missed the mark here pointing to everything from lavar ball's
00:38controversial statements about women to his overall brash personality as reasons he shouldn't get a
00:44blanket cosign from us now panelists weigh in does jay have a point that we should always support
00:48black wealth or is it inexcusable to dismiss lavar bell's laval ball's past behavior is it a slade
00:55or shade go ahead panelists one two three go oh okay we'll start with you wait i haven't started
01:01with charlie charlie you go i knew you were ready okay i'm shading hope because it's easy for someone
01:06with as much wealth as he has to tell us what to do with the wealth we don't have okay look i'm all for
01:11supporting black owned businesses but my morals mean everything to me and i stand up for women
01:16i'm black and i'm a woman so if i don't agree with someone's views i don't have to support their
01:21business just because they're black i can find another black owned business to support and i
01:25just you know it's always interesting to hear people so much money so you don't listen to r kelly
01:29you don't you that's where you draw the line i don't like your message i haven't supported r kelly
01:33in a long time okay all right i didn't forget all right all right sean jump in yes didn't forget i
01:40agree with charlie in a lot of ways right i mean i i think hove was wrong in saying that there should
01:45be a blanket contract for i still don't have title it's not that good so i boop shay yes i did
01:52you're holding up the right card but so like i don't just because jay did it doesn't mean that we
01:57should you know get into it and also if you looked at the sneakers that this man is trying to sell for
02:02450 they are ugly so i'm not going to support you for some 450 i could get for 12 from shack at walmart
02:10daniel have the last word in here on the so-called sneak i actually agree with sean and charlie i think
02:17that we should have enough deciphering to like we do have enough we're gonna buy what we're gonna buy
02:20but i'm i'm saying slay just for the continual promotion of buying black in general just to
02:26remind people if you can if you have that option to buy black do it but i'm i'm not saying anything
02:32because i think la barba is crazy i mean he thinks he's better than jordan and like he tried it he said
02:38several times that he could have beat jordan in his prime and i'm like okay but i mean i do you
02:43know i do support the con and i have i have spotify so i don't have title either but another one you
02:49know i'm yeah spotify is great yeah well but support black if you can if you can all right
02:57kayla what are people on twitter saying about jay's comments on lavar bald okay i was trying hard to
03:02find something supportive so i found one oh at skeptical lex she says lavar truly is creating a
03:07legacy jay-z has to support hashtag support black business all right that was the one support i
03:11found everything else is shade um so at al sal 1302 so jay-z buying from and publicly stating support
03:18for lavar ball isn't showing support for his misogyny so hashtag double standards they say
03:23scott mccary says what's interesting is jay-z somehow concludes that we all dislike lavar ball
03:28because he had a vision of his own and that's nuts so they said that he missed the mark
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