Jay-Z at Yankee Stadium
Kaepernick Freestyle Misses Mark, NFL Did not Silence Him
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Jay-Z is spitting fiction, not details, when he claims Colin Kaepernick agreed to be silenced by the NFL … an allegation Jay dropped dwell on stage at Yankee Stadium, and one refuted by sources talking to TMZ Sports activities.
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The second got here throughout Jay’s Friday evening opener … in a freestyle rap geared toward his critics, he mentioned, “They run out of characters, had to bring back up Kap again. Buddy took a check, I ain’t even mad at him, but along with that check you have to sign a non disparagement. I’m the one they can’t control.”
The shot at Kaepernick — 7 years after he and the NFL reached a settlement — had some followers questioning, “why now?” However, sources with direct data inform TMZ Sports activities, the larger challenge is Jay’s mistaken … Colin didn’t signal a non-disparagement settlement when he settled the lawsuit during which he’d claimed NFL groups have been colluding to maintain him out of the league.
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We’re advised no such clause was included within the 2019 deal Colin signed, and there are many receipts to again that up — specifically, social media posts the place the previous QB has remained vital of NFL groups for not hiring him.
As one supply put it, “Colin couldn’t post about how many days it’s been since a team hired him,” if he’d agreed to not say something unhealthy concerning the NFL.
As for the “why now” half? It is doable CK was on Jay’s thoughts as a result of, as we reported Friday — previous to Jay’s live performance — Colin and Tyler Perry are paying for funeral providers and a personal post-mortem for Nolan Wells … the Mississippi teen who died final week below mysterious circumstances.
If it isn’t that, it is simply puzzling why he’d elevate the Colin matter once more. Sure, there have been a number of individuals brazenly criticizing Jay-Z when Roc Nation received into biz with the NFL — producing the Tremendous Bowl Halftime reveals — as a result of they felt like he offered out Kaepernick, who he had publicly supported again when the kneeling controversy exploded.
Nonetheless, all that discuss’s died down after almost a decade of water below the bridge … making the jab at Colin much more of a head-scratcher, and particularly as a result of the remainder of the present has been lauded for its shock performers, together with Beyonce, Rihanna, Alicia Keys, Eminem, Usher, Nas and Pharrell Williams.
After all, Kaepernick and the NFL’s deal does forestall each side from revealing the phrases of the settlement. We reached out to Jay’s camp, however no phrase again.
