When Barack Obama was running for president, I sat in an arena in Columbus, and watched you influence the crowd and make sure we’re unified and vote as a body. You embody Black excellence, how great we can be. I’m honored that I got a chance to know you. Please give them your warmest round of applause. These people that protected him and kept him safe and kept him sane while he made the ascension through American life. You can’t ignore the people that are with him…Jay Brown, Ty Ty, his mother. I just do it.”Īnd I looked at Jay and said, “My God, man you just did it again.” And as they’re taking the picture Jay says to me, “You must have a lot of pressure on you to say funny shit all the time.” And I look at Jay and say to him, “Well you must have a lot of pressure on you to say cool shit all the time.”Īnd Jay looked at me and said, “It ain’t no pressure. W e all stood there while they all snapped away. And we love him more than you could ever recognize or even realize because he embodies the potential of what our lives can be and what success can be.Ĭarlos Santana Shared His Thoughts on Trans People, for Some Reason For this, we will always love him, we always treasure him.Īnd as important as this war is for some, you must understand that he has his people’s hearts. That we are his point of reference, that he is going to show us how far we can go if we just ] get hold of the opportunity. You heard this…probably says the white person, “Well, maybe this guy should focus on this development.” But what we heard is that he’ll never forget us. Well, he’s said, “This is Jay is every day.” He told us he’d never change. The way a white person might hear his music is not the same the way someone from Marcy would. So hopefully ya’ll won’t have to go through that.”… The streets loved him for this for this for this, because he rhymed a recipe for survival. And it would be – and the streets admired him for this. And when he got in the studio, like God, he would do the verse. And he would just be catchin’ rain-water. He would memorize all these thoughts that came to his mind, an avalanche of ideas. He didn’t have anything to write his rhymes on and he would sit there and he would just write down whatever. It’s made out of whatever you get your fucking hands on. ![]() Cuz when he was hustling, cuz he used to sell crack. In the music industry they call him “One-take Hov.” He said it about himself, but you don’t know why he said it. But if you shoot me, you famous, what a N-a to do.” My God man. And the whole time that he said it, my God, Jay, you look so cool. To coin a phrase that fellow Hall of Famer made – Tupac Shakur called it a rose that rose from the concrete. And this man is a diamond that was born of pressure. We don’t have a complicated emotional vocabulary. Like Sean Carter said about himself, “I’m so brazy, I’m so brazen, I’m ‘Raisin in the Sun,’ sir.” We do it anyway. But I think what’s most important for everyone in this room to know is what it means to us, what he means to his culture.īeing black in America is not as easy as it looks. I could talk about his accomplishments in music. I could sit up here tonight, I could talk about his acumen as businessman. But I need everybody in rock & roll know that even though we are honoring him, he is ours. ![]() ![]() This is an incredible honor to induct this next man into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. I would like to apologize …I’m just fucking with you. Read the full text of Chappelle’s speech at the Rock Hall below. ![]() The comedian, who lives in Ohio, got a massive ovation from the crowd when he appeared, and went on to recall several anecdotes from encountering Jay over the years while heaping praise on his artistry. Chappelle has been a Jay-Z fan going back decades, and the fandom is mutual. But on Saturday night, he took a break from being canceled to induct Jay-Z into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Dave Chappelle generated loads of controversy recently with his jokes about trans people in his new Netflix special.
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