Hip-hop icon Jay-Z provided what he deemed the correct response to the debate: lunch with the rapper or $500,000. The multifaceted legend advised fans not to pass on a bag.
CBS Mornings host Gayle King asked the mogul for his input on the online debate in a small clip of the show’s two-part interview with the legend that will air on Thursday and Friday, Oct. 26 and 27. The debate had online users deciding between lunch with Jay-Z and $500,000 in cash.
Jay-Z encouraged the world to snatch the cash. He acknowledged that people would choose to share a meal with him to obtain a valuable lesson but said it was a waste, considering all his wisdom was in his music.
“You gotta take the money,” the “Run This Town” rapper commented.
King explained why people would choose lunch with him, and Jay-Z responded.
“You got all that in the music for $10.99,” he said. “That’s a bad deal. I wouldn’t tell you to cut a bad deal. Take the $500,000, go buy some albums and listen to the albums. It’s all there. If you piece it together and really listen to the music for the words, for what it is, it’s all there.”
He continued, “Everything that I said was going to happen, happened. Everything that I said I wanted to do, I’ve done. There’s the blueprint. The blueprint, literally, to me and my life and my journey.”
Internet users took to X for their two cents on the rapper’s response.
“🏁” Twitter your messiah has spoken and he thinks yall dumb too https://t.co/G9n4QAxThq
— Nicolas is happy (@niggaolas) October 23, 2023
Dinner with Jay-Z twitter is foaming at the mouth https://t.co/93P4uiNSUs
— Ichigo Niggasake (@SomaKazima) October 23, 2023
I wish I was financially stable enough to pass up any amount of money to have an experience https://t.co/yFY5sBFZEl
— Daemahn Friday👹 (@GUN_Vanguard) October 23, 2023
Idk if I’m having deja vu or what but I could have sworn he told y’all to take the money before https://t.co/xZihcsGfKk
— Robin Dabanque (@Graceism_) October 23, 2023
LMMFAOOOOOOO I was gone take the money anyways but he literally just said “you gotta take the money, what imma say” 😂😂 exactly Jay we can always go eat https://t.co/1NrXoS088Y
— 🧘🏿♀️ TOT EDWARDS 🧘🏿♀️ (@Speakingof_TOT) October 23, 2023
Hopefully this puts an end to mf asking this dumb ass question.. https://t.co/0UcgqZJ71c
— unemployed tw¡tter personality (@luhsadkitty) October 23, 2023
