Fact remains Jay Z still has an audience. Just like The Rolling Stones and all the other "white" rock groups not pressed with ageism.
Rolling Stones can tour world wide. Jay Z has two places of note he would do solo 20K. NY and London. Jay Z fans dont buy shit or stream worth a damn.
West Coast and South aren't showing up for Jay. Midwest in a few cities he might get a strong crowd. But its funny hes turning down all this money he could make on the road to mogul.
If Jay could be making money touring then he will would be. He and his wife have had past issue with the intense touring. So that is a no, no nowdays.
Jay is doing what he does best being a product promoter. Nothing wrong with that. But it hard for me to believe hes moving units of Dusse when his wife if falling short of her sales / projections.
The streams and the sales don't match what his vocal fans say.
Its been a great run but they are now more known for drama and business deals then good music over the last decade. Jay Z had an entire platform to himself and used it as a flip instead the multi billion business it could have been.
Spotify made $3B in profit last year. He had every big name in music in promoting Tidal and could never compete with two platforms that had little promotion beyond Apple fan bois and legacy users. Tidal is quality product but beyond telling you to buy what value did Jay Z add?
Imagine giving a fuck what Steve Wonder or Tina Turner's bank account performance over thier music. Its cool to be a music mogul but eventually you have to do more than the occasional Rhianna song to be impressive.
50 Cent is correct because most Jay Z street associations are old ass fuck. The skinny jean 30 shot gang that listen to Future has more numbers in people and streams.
Niggas like 50 and Future wouldn't trade places with Jay Z. Both of them have freemdoms that they wouldn't trade to have Jay life. Both of them ditched the R&B wife life and have a lot more peace of mind.
No sisters in laws doing elevator taboo and wifes fucking on the help. No sneaking around when you want to fuck an enemies wife/gf/ex. No fanbases calling you a tether to your wife.
Why have all that money only to have normal nigga problems? I guess you like dude because you can relate.
Whatever figure hes worth, congrats to a nigga from the projects getting rich. Same for Future and 50 Cent.
But please stop acting like Jay Z cant be clowned by people who have sold WAY more records and streams. Both probably do better tour numbers Jay without his wife too. He aint Teflon by any means.