Jay-Z Bites Back at "Eat the Rich" Rhetoric: "We're Not Gonna Be Tricked Out of Our Position"
Jay-Z took on criticism of his capitalism in a surprising Twitter Space.
"We did our thing, you know, we hustle, we fucking killed ourselves to get to this space. And, you know, now it’s like, you know, you know, ‘Eat the rich.’" https://t.co/lhLBPuyUvO
- Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) September 1, 2022
“Before was the American dream, ‘Pull yourself by the bootstraps, and you can make yourself…you can make it in America,’ all these lies that America told us our whole life,” Jay continued. “And then when we start getting in, they tried to lock us out of it. They start inventing words like you know, ‘capitalist,’ you know, things like that.
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