Black Lives Matter says its network is not in line to get some of the $1.5 million Jay Z’s TIDAL and Roc Nation are reportedly donating $1.5 million to social justice organizations.
“Congrats and well deserved to the groups who are getting Tidal money!” Black Lives Matter wrote on its Twitter page Friday (February 5). “Clarification,” Black Lives Matter continued, “it isn’t the BLM network Black Lives Matter.”
(The original post in this thread was published February 7, 2016. It is as follows.)
Jay Z’s TIDAL and Roc Nation are donating $1.5 million to Black Lives Matter and other social justice organizations, according to Mic.
“Each year we will support a different initiative,” Dania Diaz, managing director of philanthropy at Roc Nation, said during an interview with Mic. “Our ideology is to have a hifi level of consciousness in everything we do.”
TIDAL announced the information Friday (February 5), on what would have been Trayvon Martin’s twenty-first birthday.
Martin was killed February 26, 2012. George Zimmerman, the man accused of murdering Martin, was found not guilty of second degree murder and manslaughter in 2013.
The funds for the donation were raised at TIDAL’s X: 10/20 concert last year. The event featured Jay Z, Nicki Minaj, Lil Wayne, Beyonce and others.
TIDAL will also be giving money to Opportunity Agenda, Hands Up United, Sankofa.Org and local organizing groups in California: Community Coalition; Florida: Dream Defenders; Illinois: Black Youth Project; Maryland: Baltimore Justice Fund; Empowerment Development Corporation; New York: Million Hoodies; NY Justice League and Ohio: Ohio Students Association/Organizing Collaborative.
The Trayvon Martin Foundation, the Michael O.D. Brown We Love Ours Sons and Daughters Foundation and the Oscar Grant Foundation are also in line to receive money from TIDAL.
“The process of acquiring recommendations [for nonprofits] was collaborative and inspired by the message that speaks to racial and social inequities and injustice in our society,” Diaz says.
For more coverage on Jay Z, whose TIDAL and Roc Nation companies are donating $1.5 million to Black Lives Matter and other social justice organizations, watch the following DX Daily:
HOV!!
GREAT NEWS
Are you serious. That’s like 20+ organizations, that will receive 10’s of dollars. They need fishing rods not sardines. Jay Z is a disloyal puppet.
It’s nice that HOV donates Beyoncé’s concert money to this cause. Nas, will never have woman like Beyoncé to support his businesses. He’ll always be broke.
You always have Nas on your mind, every post you make is some irrational hate jab and claiming he’s broke when that’s not even close to true.
He’s a drag on the system, ever since HOV beat him with takeover. He needs to learn a new trade instead of being a bum on welfare. Also, he’ll never be a god mc like HOV, just look at how many grammy’s HOV has!
Face it Nas stans, your favorite rapper is garbarge and you need to devote your existence to HOV and the ROC!
1. Jay Z didn’t beat Nas, it was the other way around. 2. Nas isn’t a bum on welfare, he’s worth $20 million. Not exactly on Jay Z level, but that’s impressive. 3. Having Grammys doesn’t make you the best rapper (2pac, Biggie, and other legends don’t have Grammys), that shit is nothing but a popularity contest. 4. Nas is not and will never be garbage. Hell, your idol praised him several times.
I swear, this Fuck QB guy always has me in stitches with his posts. Can’t believe I’m saying this, but I think I found my favorite HHDX troll.
I rep HOV any day but honestly Nas isn’t trash at all. Yes Jay is hell richer but we all know that rap/hiphop alone dont give hundreds of millions of dollars, Businesses do and thats what Jay is about. At $20million Nas can be said to have done really well for himself. True hiphop fans will not shit on greats like NAS just cos Hov is doing better financially and lyrically. #BlessUp
Nope, any real hip hop head, knows that success in the game comes from Money and HOV has Beyonce money! HOV can run as many pretend businesses he can but at the end of the day Beyonce couch cushions have more money than Nas will ever make. Beyonce keeps HOV relevant in the eyes of the Media critical or not. Face it, Nas is a broke bum who is irrelevant and never recovered from Takeover. As long as HOV is with Beyonce, Nas will never be able to win.
No money to the hood = no jobs. No jobs = more violence and crimes. More crimes = more tension. more tension = civil/race war
Yo real talk this App is 100 times better than Apples! Especially when driving!
Let’s be real. You can throw a million dollars to a single block in the ghetto and it’ll be squandered. That’s just the way it is. You can blame slavery, you can blame whites, you can blame whoever or whatever, at the end of the day it’ll just be blacks killing blacks. Asians, Latinos, and other minorities keep making moves to get their people as a whole out from the bottom, because that’s where blacks reside.
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz
“Our ideology is to have a hifi level of consciousness in everything we do.” Yup! HOV always comes through on the conscious tip. Let Nas do Oochie Wally and pretend to wannabe gangsta “Escobar”. HOV is always looking out for his people like Beans and Freeway.
The delusion is strong with this one. Jay Z cares more about money than consciousness. Nas is more conscious than Jay and he hasn’t done the Escobar thing since Stillmatic. Are you that stuck in the past? Also, nobody cares abut Beanie and Freeway anymore.
Big up Jay #blacklivesmatter #alllivesmatter
Applause