JAY-Z fans have joked that they would rather take $500,000 than dinner with the rap legend after DDG revealed advice given to him by the Roc Nation mogul.
The Michigan rapper was speaking to Hollywood Unlocked when he divulged what JAY-Z said to him when they met at a recent party.
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“I’ve only talked to him a few times. It ain’t like I text him and call him and shit like that, but we’ve had conversations. When I do see him, I try to ask him for a little bit of game, a little bit of advice,” he said.
“I asked him at the birthday party, I was like, ‘What advice could you give me as an artist?’ And he gave me like an analogy, he was like, ‘If people go to a Chinese restaurant, they expect Chinese food. So give the people what they came for.'”
Watch his comments at the 43:29 mark below.
Many fans joked about the quality of advice that DDG received from Hov, with many referencing the “dinner with JAY-Z or $500K?” viral online debate.
One commented: “He coulda literally gotten that from a fortune cookie AT the Chinese store.”
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Another said: “He told you some cat in the hat shit! And you take it and ran with it!?” while someone else joked: “I coulda told him ‘give the people what they want’ for 500k.”
JAY-Z himself weighed in on the long-running debate in an interview with Gayle King on CBS News last year.
“You gotta take the money,” he replied with little hesitation. “What I’ma say? You got all that [wisdom] in the music for $10.99! 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. Everything that I said was gonna 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 is there already.”
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Jay’s former streaming service TIDAL also agreed with him, once tweeting: “Take the $500K.”
JAY-Z is estimated by Forbes to be worth around $2.5 billion thanks to investments in real estate, technology and entertainment, as well as the $750 million sale of his 50 percent share of D’USSE cognac to Bacardi last year.
