{"id":114010,"date":"2023-10-25T10:33:52","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T10:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/10\/25\/jay-z-settles-viral-debate-wants-you-to-take-the-500000-over-lunch-with-him\/"},"modified":"2023-10-25T10:33:52","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T10:33:52","slug":"jay-z-settles-viral-debate-wants-you-to-take-the-500000-over-lunch-with-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/10\/25\/jay-z-settles-viral-debate-wants-you-to-take-the-500000-over-lunch-with-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Jay-Z settles viral debate; wants you to take the $500,000 over lunch with him"},"content":{"rendered":"<br><p>Jay-Z (Gerald W. Lynch Theater on January 23, 2019 in New York City.)<\/p><div id=\"article-text\">\n                        \n\n                        \n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jay-Z wants you to take the money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The viral online debate that asks, \u201cWould you rather have one meal with Jay-Z and pick his brain, or get $500,000 cash?,\u201d has finally been settled \u2014 and the \u201c99 Problems\u201d hitmaker says take the cash.\u00a0Jay-Z, born Shawn Carter, addressed the philosophical question that has haunted social media since 2021 in an\u00a0interview\u00a0with CBS\u2019 Gayle King.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou gotta take the money,\u201d he said. \u201cWhat am I gonna say?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fans have argued that the wisdom a person could gain from picking Jay-Z\u2019s brain over pizza and beer could be more valuable than the $500,000, because the lucky dinner date would walk away knowing how to earn more than a half-million bucks. But the rapper countered that stance, pointing out that he has been sharing his wisdom with the world for decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou got all that in the music for $10.99,\u201d he quipped. \u201cSo that\u2019s a bad deal &#8230; I wouldn\u2019t tell you to cut a bad deal, right?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cTake the $500,000, go buy some albums and listen to the album,\u201d he continued. \u201cIt\u2019s all there. If you piece it together and really listen to the music for the words, for what it is, it\u2019s all there. Everything that I said was gonna happen, happened. Everything that I said I wanted to do, I\u2019ve done. It is the blueprint, literally to me, and my life and my journey. It\u2019s there already.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Jay-Z\u2019s song 2021 hit \u201cU Don\u2019t Know,\u201d he raps, \u201cThat\u2019s another difference that\u2019s between me and them \/ Heh, I smarten up, open the market up \/ One million, two million, three million, four \/ In 18 months, 80 million more \/ Now add that number up with the one I said before\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI sell ice in the winter, I sell fire in hell \/ I am a hustler baby, I\u2019ll sell water to a well.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And in the music mogul\u2019s 2017 track \u201cThe Story of O.J.\u201d he raps about investing in artwork and creating generational wealth: \u201cFinancial freedom my only hope \/ F\u2014 livin\u2019 rich and dyin\u2019 broke \/ I bought some artwork for one million \/ Two years later, that s\u2014 worth two million \/ Few years later, that s\u2014 worth eight million \/ I can\u2019t wait to give this s\u2014 to my children \/ Y\u2019all think it\u2019s bougie, I\u2019m like, it\u2019s fine \/ But I\u2019m tryin\u2019 to give you a million dollars worth of game for $9.99.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jay-Z\u2019s rare interview and exclusive tour of \u201cThe Book of HOV\u201d exhibit at the Brooklyn Public Library, explores the rapper\u2019s body of work, including his original master recordings, various business ventures and efforts to reform the criminal justice system. He also opens up about what it meant to him when his wife\u00a0Beyonc\u00e9 Knowles-Carter\u00a0and their daughter\u00a0Blue Ivy\u00a0went on the\u00a0Renaissance World Tour\u00a0together this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n                <p><strong>DISCLAIMER: <\/strong>The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not necessarily represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited.<\/p>      \n                <!-- Post Tags -->\n                \n\n                         \n                                             \n                    <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jay-Z (Gerald W. Lynch Theater on January 23, 2019 in New York City.) Jay-Z wants you to take the money. The viral online debate that asks, \u201cWould you rather have one meal with Jay-Z and pick his brain, or get $500,000 cash?,\u201d has finally been settled \u2014 and the \u201c99 Problems\u201d hitmaker says take the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":114011,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Jay-Z settles viral debate; wants you to take the $500,000 over lunch with him - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/10\/25\/jay-z-settles-viral-debate-wants-you-to-take-the-500000-over-lunch-with-him\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Jay-Z settles viral debate; wants you to take the $500,000 over lunch with him - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Jay-Z (Gerald W. 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