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. 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. I mean, you know, we’ve been called ‘n–ger’ and ‘monkeys’ and shit. I don’t care; those words y’all come up with. Y’all gotta come up with stronger words.
We’re not gonna be tricked out of our position. Y’all locked us out. Y’all created a system that, you know, doesn’t include us. We said fine. We went our alternate route. We created this music. 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,’ and, man, we’re not stopping, so that evolution is, you know, from us.
That IS capitalism. This is the result of class.
This is what socialists mean when we say that environment produces behaviour. The system itself and the class that Jay Z is now a part of produce the desire to hoard their wealth. Under a different system they would be completely different people.
Colour has absolutely nothing to do with it though. They're just acting in their class interests and weaponising whatever arguments they can to defend those class interests. If he wasn't black or oppressed he would still want to hoard his wealth.
Yeah was just analyzing his words, wasn't attempting to justify them