Jay-Z's Super Bowl halftime show selection has more than 99 vulgarity and profanity problems for the NFL
The audacity of Roc Nation, which Jay-Z founded and co-owns, picking Jay-Z to be the next Super Bowl's top-billed performer is something we all could get over.Jay-Z simply searched for the best available act while looking into his mirror and selected the guy staring him in the face.Rapper Jay-Z attends a game between the New York Yankees and the Baltimore Orioles during a game at Yankee Stadium on September 25, 2014 in the Bronx borough of New York City.(Photo by Alex Trautwig/Getty Images) (Alex Trautwig/Getty Images)SUPER BOWL LXI GETS PAT MCAFEE TREATMENT AS ESPN ADDS ALTERNATE BROADCASTThe NFL equivalent would be Tom Brady picking himself as the greatest quarterback of all time.
Or former general managers John Elway and Ozzie Newsome drafting themselves to play for their teams.It's odd.But Jay-Z's selection of Jay-Z is the least of the issues this move poses for the NFL, which outsourced to him and Roc Nation the halftime show selection process in 2019.The problem, more than 99 of them, is what the NFL and Roc Nation are telling us about their comfort level with the N-word, the devaluing of women, violence, and presenting all those in one profanity-laced package to a worldwide audience.Jay-Z walked on the field ahead of the match between Cote D'Ivoire and Ecuador.(Ezra Shaw - FIFA/FIFA via Getty Images)NFL RESTARTS SOCIAL JUSTICE MESSAGING WHILE BATTLING DOMESTIC ABUSE, DRUNK DRIVING AND PROSTITUTION ARRESTSAnd this is where we get to the bottom line: Make sure your kids are not in front of the television at halftime on Feb.
14.As a non-Jay-Z fan – yeah, I'm the one – I relied on ChatGPT and Gemini to bring me up to speed on the legacy rapper's songs and lyrics.It's only a mild exaggeration to say both AI platforms blushed as they filled the prompt with the titles and lyrics Jay-Z has made his billions on since the late 1980s when he got his start.OutKick and Fox News Digital editors actually had to discuss what was OK to share in this column that would no...