Bomani Jones on Jay Z, Rihanna, and The NFL

[@DCP]

To hear the full conversation: pod.link/toureshow/episode/5fdff20b572015d753e81ca7c08231d0

[@TheKoolace17]

" You gonna have to let me finish my sentences. That's how this works." 😂😂🤣🤣

[@hiphopsince81]

I’m glad Bomani said something about Toure interrupting him. I was like damn Toure let Bo finish what he was saying!

[@UWANNABEME223]

He would be answering the question he would cut him off & ask another or make a statement so like it bo said that

[@LanceJ.]

I could listen to these two talk for hours. They’re smart AF and they don’t agree on everything.

[@daddy9925]

All you need do is listen to Sean Carters music. He mentions wealth, money and luxury items more than any other subject matter. Maybe it means nothing, maybe it’s a peek into exactly what he prioritizes. For others it might be drugs or sex or even politics, but for SC it’s always been money over everything else.

[@owenlawson8660]

Love Bomani… his commentary about Black folks giving in and watching is an indictment of who we are…. No questioning of when do Black people achieve ownership. Jay-Z got the SuperBowl shows but when does he get a TEAM!?!… and when do we stop giving so much time to watching this timeless transfer of wealth. Keep battling y’all!

[@shogunate2]

Let's not forget Nas sold out The Garden without the machine. Ignore all u want

[@Braktooth]

Eff the NFL.

[@mike-xp3lq]

BOMANI SPOT ON WE AS BLK PPL WE DON'T STAND TOGETHER

[@xxphactor]

It seems like no matter how provocative people think Jones is, at the end of the day he will fall in line with corporate. Not hating or anything, but he has survival skills and knows how and when to use it. I heard him tell Jemele Hill how when she was getting in trouble at ESPN, he went to corporate to figure out how can he avoid the same fate. They giggled and shit, but it made me instinctively scratch the record on him.

[@gernblanston2652]

That's not what he said, at all. He said that he went to Skipper for an explanation as to why she was suspended under the guise of how he can cover the same topics and avoid getting suspended. He doesn't have the clout where he can just go in and start demanding explanations from his higher ups. So, he went looking for one while being tactful.

[@xman9190]

I thought he tried to make himself appear to be clever and tactful, like he could navigate the minefield in ways that Jemele and other blacks couldn't. N-word please! 🙄

[@robj5204]

😂 they just said 25mil a year is pennies. Hold up…I don’t care about the context. 25mil a year is never Pennies ever. 😂EVVVVEEERRRRR

[@____2080_____]

I would challenge the gentleman that they’re over, thinking it, especially trying to get in the minds of the two entertainers Rihanna and Shaun Carter. I’m suspecting that our friends either aren’t equipped to psychoanalyze or are off-limits to psycho analyze the behind-the-scenes forces and interconnected networks that created Arianna, created a Jay Z, and how those connections are in bed with the various power trusts throughout the NFL. Do you have the advisers of these entertainers , working in close unison with the advisers in brain. Trust of the NFL to quell the several of the NFL players, including Colin Kaepernick. People should consider that someone who understands how the salad is made, and how the power in Hollywood really works, and how much of his notoriety and wealth are absolutely tied into keeping happy the powers behind the scenes… Carter, you what he must do even if he did not get a direct script to do it. As for the two gentlemen worried about Carter’s egg on his face moment, here, it’s part of his job to get that. His allies will make sure that the public perception will see him as a genius. See him as the best rapper of all time. To erase this from his legacy. Judging from the comments, we have a lot of fans of someone they really don’t know. (Sidebar: many do not realize that everyone who kneeled with him are members of Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity, as is he. We have not really delved into the importance of these affiliations, that Kaepernick and his several fellow NFL players had here in truly causing a significant drop in African-American viewership of the NFL product, which intern caused the NFL to take a more popular athlete to break that perception and ultimately getting Nike involved to essentially pay Colin Kaepernick to march off into the sunset)

[@chadbutler8634]

He let the nba use him too

[@toddgoza3522]

Ncaa didn’t decide the Supreme Court decided

[@xman9190]

Bomani ain't making sense. Sounds like he's trying to defend Jay Z and the NFL. I wonder what's in it for Bomani?

[@codymiller8969]

He’s trying to keep credibility with his “community” but he also still works for ESPN which is a partner with the NFL

[@xman9190]

​@@codymiller8969 You're saying something about ESPN and the NFL by suggesting that one can't do both (be credible with the black community and represent the interests of the ESPN and the NFL) at the same time.

[@abzda1700]

Why do people not talk about kapernick settling with the nfl before the roc nation deal.

[@factthatdude4059]

People actually do! His settlement was from his labor grievance. Some people tend to speak on the settlement in ignorance. 😂😂😂

[@soopergood5012]

@@factthatdude4059 yeah people who bring this up are trying to insinuate he sold out. Like if you they wouldn't take a settlement they won at their job. It's an insincere point/question to bring up. Coded speech.

[@abzda1700]

@@soopergood5012 no people are trying to insinuate that jayz did something snakey by accepting the nfl deal when kap had already settle and said all he wants was a opportunity to try for a team. Jayz got every nfl team to send a scout to watch him play and guess who didn’t show up for the try outs. Kap new he was out the league he was protesting from the bench for a reason

[@abzda1700]

@@factthatdude4059 after the settlement he said he wanted to comeback

[@raymondpierotti8414]

This is called Riding Bomani's reputation to get views

[@mindbully]

It’s interesting, the amount of ppl who feel they’re smarter than Jay. The dude has literally figured out everything. At every stage of his career, he’s figured it out and succeed.

[@cantstop-wontstop2138]

@mindbully This wasn't a discussion on "smarter".

[@mindbully]

@@cantstop-wontstop2138 Anybody that thinks they can give advantageous advice to Jay is suggesting he hasn’t given consideration to it. That would imply that they know something he doesn’t. That’s a possibility. But you’d have to demonstrate that thru your own life and career trajectory. Neither of these dudes are equipped to do so. They’re just talking, like everyone else.

[@cantstop-wontstop2138]

@mindbully Being a successful ENTERTAINER only requires one to be ENTERTAINING. Getting the business opportunities he has gotten required THEM(the NFL) to see him as being SAFE, AMICABLE, COOPERATIVE and COMPLIANT. His willingness to flip on Kaepernick was him showing his willingness to be ALL OF THE ABOVE.

[@mindbully]

@@cantstop-wontstop2138 Simply stating that we’re “beyond kneeling” isn’t flipping. It was prescient. As you can see, everyone else has finally come around on that concept.

[@cantstop-wontstop2138]

@mindbully Except Derek Chauvin...he didn't get the Jay Z memo that we were "beyond kneeling". In fact, Chauvin proved that Jay was out of touch wit the daily realities of the average Black man and was getting more intertwined wit the white supremacist establishment. Yeah- I said it.

[@SamaSalinas]

The bo bo is the biggest failure in TV and RADIO 🙁

[@LanceJ.]

He’s a failure with multiple tv shows, radio shows and podcasts. If he’s a failure, what does that make you who has nothing?

[@SamaSalinas]

@@LanceJ. Your right I give you that but at my job mind you Mexican I work my ass off I don't get a welfare check I don't check all the boxes👍🇲🇽

[@shonuffshowstopper]

@@SamaSalinas Nobody gets welfare checks anymore hombre 😁