“My thing with Jay is he often inverts collective social justice rhetoric for individualist capitalist pursuits,” says Jason England, a former English professor and cultural critic who published a scathing critique of hip-hop on its 50th anniversary. “They killed all our heroes. So we pivoted to people who achieved visibility, acceptance, and financial success. I get it.”

I have such a distaste for Jay-Z and his brand of Black Capitalism, partially because I have to be the asshole at family dinners who points out that this is no more "liberatory" than any white-fronted attempts to sanitize the toxic brand of capitalism. I cannot stand someone this bald-facedly opportunistic.