To Jay Z, telling the Kalief Browder story is about more than one young man. The rap mogul says that the life of the teenager who was held at Rikers Island for three years without trial is the one of a “modern day prophet.”
In a press conference held yesterday (October 6) in New York about his Spike docuseries, Time: The Kalief Browder Story, Jay Z offers his solution to stopping police brutality in light of Browder’s fight for justice and that of so many who lost their lives at the hands of police, including Alton Sterling, Philando Castile and Terence Crutcher this summer.
“When you have compassion for what someone goes through — we’re all looking for a short embrace at time,” he said, according to The FADER‘s reporter who was in attendance. “Judgement is the enemy of compassion. When you are able to identify that…we’re all not perfect, we may make mistakes. All of us, every single one of us. When you have compassion for what someone’s going through and their plight, my personal belief, having the camera on someone creates more distrust. When we have an exchange and it has to be recorded, something’s wrong there, something’s broken. A camera can’t fix a relationship between a person that’s hired to protect and serve and society. There has to be a relationship. There has to be respect on both sides.”
The Game and Snoop Dogg have attempted to lead the charge in improving race relatons in the country. The upcoming generation, including Vic Mensa and Ty Dolla $ign, is bringing its own voice to the table in how to bring peace to the United States.
Hov cites Browder, who committed suicide last year at the age of 22 after being released from legal custody, as evidence of the larger issue at hand.
“This young man just by the fact that he brought all of us here today lets you know how powerful of a soul he was,” Jay Z continues at the press conference. “… He’s here today and he’s done more in 19 years than what a lot of us will do in a lifetime.”
I didn’t read the article, but guess the solution is to replace all white cops with black cops. Then those black cops will beat up all the white people and let people like Jay-Z sell drugs and leech off welfare on taxpayer dime?
That is actually 100% accurate.
AS ACCURATE AND DEAD ON THAT YOU PROBABLY DON’T KNOW WHO YOUR FATHER IS!!!! GHETTO BASTARD!!!! GO FIND THAT NIGGA!!!!
Thanks for the support. Love seeing how many people agree with me 🙂
SUCKS THAT YOUR MOTHER WAS A CRACKHEAD JUNKIE SUCKIN’ OFF THE WHOLE HOOD FOR SOME CRACK ROCK!!!! BUM ASS NIGGA!!!!
Fukkk these hipocrysy idiot rappers and thier opinions.
jay z is trying to stay relevant by touching this social topics just cause his music sucks and tidal is making him look like a fool, fuck jay z´s boring ass
You Believe that a black man who has his own streaming service is looking like a fool? It’s not an everyday thing
making him look like a sucka and loosing millions of dollars. black or White he is failing
Bruh the man has a billion dollars is one of the most respected rappers of all time and married to the biggest cultural force in pop music…and you’re a nobody who has contributed nothing to the world on a hip hop website talking about “he failing.” I was gonna go in but I just feel so sad for you. Even thinking about being in your shoes for 10 seconds made me instantly miserable. I’m truly sorry you ended up being that guy
the funny thing is, police have very close relationships with the places they service. most cops know more about the places they serve more than people who live there. they don’t bus them in from out of state, they know all the culture and nuances, they know all the gangs and the members of gangs who probably don’t want to be there. they know all the junkies, all the bad areas, all the good areas, and which people to look out for. dude was “harassed” for selling single cigarettes? lol, he was selling drugs, anyone who knows the area knows that story and they probably know that guy by name. the problem seems to be: cops have such close relationships with these communities, AND YET this still happens. maybe, just maybe, it’s a problem with the black community.
Maybe….just maybe…..your an idiot.
White nonsense. If theses officers were born and raised in theses neighborhoods your argument would make some type of sense. But your white nonsense brain just needs to figure out how to always blame the black man.
Why is it so outrageous to point to the black community’s responsibility in this issue? This is the problem, people get defensive and mob up instead of really trying to solve it. Neither side is perfect here, both share blame in this problem, but it will never be solved until we swallow our fuckin pride and hold each other accountable, not just pointing finger at the “other team”…the 2 replies to Rekkington are so ignorant.
Look. Nobody said black ppl are perfect or without flaw, but to make it seem like these white folks gunnin us down is OUR fault is fuckin outrageous. Systemic racism must not play a factor to yal i guess. Guess whote privilege doesnt exist…or white fear either. I got a news flash for you 2 bozos. If i became a cop tomorrow and was policing yal neighborhoods after a while I’d know lil jon jon from down the street too. It dont matter where these cops come from. The same shit is happening regardless if they know the hood or not. Its irrelevant. Mfkas gettin popped and all you niggas talkin bout its our fault. Foh.
Truth is truth, no matter what your opinion is on why Jay is making this statement, it’s still a message. This has nothing to do with RAP or relevance in the Rap game this is an ongoing issue that everyone should be informed about. If you can’t respect that, then your whole perspective is wack.
Maybe they’ll love us when we fade to black…
this is so prophetic…
And you people say Nas is a prophet? Wrong!!!! King HOV is the real prophet here. Listen to what this man has to say. HOV is the man with the plan!
gayyyyy
????? Jay is dumb as a bag of nickels.
Nas GOAT
I agree with Jay…but I feel that’s a pretty obvious statement. The issue is actually getting both sides to show that respect that is needed. I feel like the representatives from both sides just want to point out the wrongs of the other side, instead of holding themselves accountable and changing their own before telling the other side what is wrong with them. If anybody has been following the election, the back and forth between clinton and trump is a mirror image of the back and forth between the police and the black community. Each just blames the other and nothing changes…fixing this problem can only come from within each side and until we figure out how to reach people with this idea nothing will change.
first of all this is not jay-z, its a church nigga copy tryin to b jay-z. church niggas keep claiming all day to be someone else to create hate between 2 parties. they, the 3rd party, are benefitting from this kind of war at the end of the day and then they come up with bs like: we have the only solution, trust in the holy ghost and pray non-sense bs. this is not made to really solve a problem but to convince everyone that they are such good ppl and noone is better than them. the truth is that they dont care neither about cops nore about blacks. it doesnt matters if the cop is attacked by the suspect or the suspect is attacked by the cop, they would never get involved to solve the situation b4 it gets worse, they are actually waiting for something worse to happen, only pointing the cam on the scene, in order to post it later on the social media and to have reason to start talking about their prayers bs. they are happy if 2 parties are fighting because with that they have something to talk about which will always ends up with talking about themself and their bs religion…
Wire money now or they daddy said you loss my game…..?
That’s the problem with us. We never know who actually has our best interest and who’s just trying to create publicity for themselves. Jayz is the guy who sold out Kaepernick for that nfl cash. What makes us think hes got our backs now? Hasn’t he always been about himself and himself only?
Every single celebrity is for them selves my friend just don’t let the media turn this to a race war at the end of the day it’s good vs evil simple as that. The same ones controlling the media are the ones to blame it’s all a distraction
“EVERY Life Counts”! Everything else is racist in itself.
I am not from the US, but I learned some things.
1. Its not good to be poor in the US ! And thats the color that counts the most !
2. Its not good to be in any minority in the US !
3. Its not good to be a cop in the US !
Who wants to be a cop in the US, suicidals?
to the problem:
What Black ppl these days really need are worthy Leaders.
Someone who could present and is respectable at the same time.
No Gangsters, Pimps or Drugdealers/users !!!
But sadly that are the people that get followed the most.
What do You think is the picture in the world of black US Citizens,
always idolising people that are bad for every community.
And when things get worse rioting falls into that lane too.
Thats all very bad publicity.
So were is the point in that bullshit ?
Acting violent wont stop violence.
Attacking Police wont make Police better ppl.
I know problems have to be adressed to be acknowledged.
Demontrations are important. But what is the goal of riots? I dont get it.
Revenge, Eye for an Eye ? To avenge ppl ? To get justice (whatever justice that could be???)?
Simple Life Rule:
If you dont want it to be done to you, dont do it to other ppl or it is hypocrisy. No exceptions!
If you demonstrate to have a positive outcome it has to be done in a respectable way !
With a united goal that is realistic and communicated widely.
I dont comment here often. Truth is not wanted much in here. Racism is widespread in here and has all colors.
U miss the point with that long ass message.
Sad that a foreigner gets it and the blacks here don’t. That’s why they lay in their own shit….because they never learn. Standards says he missed the point without pointing out what the F’in point is? The point is African Americas are enjoying this sympathy parade by the weak and chuck hold whites. It takes real men and strong women to make changes. So you all going to change your victimhood mentality or not? The straight white Alphamale is not your enemy. The cops can be cool if you stay out of trouble and be a decent human being. You guys need to understand that. Privilege is more about nepotism and money. There are a lot of blacks with Nepotism and privilege too. It’s just ignored because it doesn’t fit the narrative.
I thought a viewpoint from outside US might be helpful.
If i would live in the US I might be dead by now or a murderer in the name of money.
The holy Money System itself slaves minoritys even more than majoritys its a sad thing to see.
And then its called freedom. But in reality its survival of the fittest.
If i would explain my viewpoints fully i would have to write some hours.
So how do you comment on such a complex matter in short ?
short version for you :
You reap what you sow
if you did your homework like you think you do you’d know that every time the black community declares someone a leader amongst us, that person is then made enemy of the state and then murdered. everytime the black community unifies in peaceful organization, they are infiltrated from outside sources and corrupted. so please, stop telling the black community what to fucking do like we don’t know. We have not been allowed or afforded the rights to be left to our own to build our own communities that are worthy of respect.
I agree with everything you wrote. There will be no easy way. And I dont think that you dont know.
But what help is knowing ? The actions i withness now dont walk that way !
Where are these leaders in times of social media ?
Now the world is watching more then ever.
Now would be the right time for such a person to emerge.
What does the actions of a few cops have to do with the entire white race? There was two Asians involved, yet nobody talks about them or their skin color. So this bad cop represents white America? Lol that thought process right there is why we are in this situation and the media is capitalizing on it to help their elites destroy America. So thank you to the morons who bought into the divide and conquer chaos.
Welcome to being black, where all of us are pigeonholed into stereotypes you see from athletes and entertainers, I would suggest that’s probably the biggest issue right there. A lot, if not most, white people don’t HAVE to socialize with us. Chances are your dentist, mortgage broker, lawyer, doctor, school teacher etc., aren’t black. If you have black co-workers, you probably don’t kick it with them too much and vice versa. So these police, with that same lack of interaction other than on a criminal level, think everybody on a corner is potentially Monster Kody or Suge Knight, it’s ridiculous…
you can stop police brutality? maybe in a perfect world.