“I got 99 Problems but Mitt ain’t one, Hit Meh!” – say what you want about Jay Z, but his presence was felt all over the general election. This good read from The Atlantic gives some insight on what Pres. Obama can learn from Jay and what he represents.
David Samuels is the good read of the day with his article for the The Atlantic. in it, he points out that Jay Z represents an ideal that many young people who voted for Obama in Tuesday’s election probably also share – we have the right to dream, strive for and obtain a better today and tomorrow.
Excerpt from the article:
In an emotional moment near the end of his first show at the Barclays Center, he proclaimed that everyone in the arena had been born with “genius-level talent,” but that only a few people are lucky enough to recognize and develop their gifts. “I ain’t no motherfuckin’ different from anybody here tonight,” he said. “And I’m standing on this stage.”
To those unfamiliar with Jay-Z’day ws art, the pose may seem like a trick played by a rich and powerful celebrity performer on an impressionable audience: How is it possible, or right, for Jay-Z to flaunt his wealth, and yet insist that everyone in the Barclays Center was equal—and for anyone, yet alone everyone, to believe him?
The article goes on to talk about how this kind of questioning misses the point and that:
What the rapper was offering his audience was a new contract that fuses capitalist meritocracy and its updated gospel of wealth with traditional American ideas of equality and the democracy of gifts. Everyone in the arena, he repeated at every show, was born with “genius-level talent.” Yet it is the job of every individual to locate and develop their genius, which only a few people are able or willing to do.
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What say you?
