YOUR HATE FOR JAY-Z IS ROOTED IN RACISM Jay-Z became too successful for some people to accept without inventing a sinister explanation. A Black man builds a billion-dollar empire, and suddenly it must be the Illuminati, secret societies, or something evil. Then an explosive rape allegation gave people a socially acceptable excuse to justify hatred they already had, even after the accuser’s story contained major inconsistencies, the lawsuit was dismissed, and her own father said he did not recall the parts of her story in which he was involved. At some point, ask yourself why extraordinary Black success bothers you so much that you believe a conspiracy theory to explain it, but people like Elon Musk and Taylor Swift “earned” their way to fame.