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Jay-Z Confused By Occupy Wall Street (Not Enough To Refrain From Exploiting It)
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Christopher Robbins
Published Sep 9, 2012
Modified Sep 9, 2012
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Published Sep 9, 2012
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Jay-Z is a very busy man: he has Budweiser to sell and a basketball team to coachjerseys to shill, and as such he has no time for "picnics" in Zuccotti Park with a bunch of filthy vulgarians. “I’m not going to a park and picnic—I have no idea what to do,” the rapper told author Zadie Smith over a meal at Parm. He was referring to Russell Simmons' attempts to sway him into supporting Occupy Wall Street: “I don’t know what the fight is about. What do we want? Do you know?'' What do we want? T-SHIRTS! When do we want them? IN TWO TO FOUR WEEKS!
“I think all those things need to really declare themselves a bit more clearly because when you just say that ‘the 1 percent is that,’ that’s not true,” the member of the 1% said. “Yeah, the 1 percent that’s robbing people, and deceiving people, these fixed mortgages and all these things, and then taking their home away from them, that’s criminal, that’s bad. Not being an entrepreneur. This is free enterprise. This is what America is built on.”
Indeed, America is built on novelty t-shirts. Just look how many jobs Hova created for copy-cat t-shirt makers alone!
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Christopher Robbins
Christopher Robbins is a New York City reporter covering transportation, affordable housing, local politics, and criminal justice. His work has also appeared in New York Magazine, The Village Voice and The New York Times. Chris is a graduate of Patrick Henry High School in Roanoke, Virginia, and enjoys biking to Fort Tilden in the summertime.
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