{"id":799026,"date":"2019-08-30T08:35:20","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T14:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=878664"},"modified":"2019-08-30T08:35:20","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T14:35:20","slug":"meek-mill-to-perform-at-nfl-kickoff-concert-highlighting-roc-nation-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/meek-mill-to-perform-at-nfl-kickoff-concert-highlighting-roc-nation-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Meek Mill to Perform at NFL Kickoff Concert, Highlighting Roc Nation Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Meek Mill<\/a> and Rapsody will both perform a free concert during the NFL<\/a> Kickoff Experience at Chicago\u2019s Grant Park on September 5th, the first event under the new partnership<\/a> between Jay-Z<\/a>\u2019s Roc Nation and the NFL.<\/p>\n

The rappers will host two Chicago-based community organizations, BBF Family Services and Crushers Club, for the concert; following the gig, the Chicago Bears\u2019 season-opening game against the Green Bay Packers will screen live in Grant Park for concertgoers.<\/p>\n

In addition to celebrating the start of a new football season, the NFL Kickoff event will also mark the launch of both Inspire Change apparel and Songs of the Season; the former will \u201csupport organizations committed to the key priorities of Inspire Change: education and economic empowerment, police and community relations, and criminal justice reform, while Songs of the Season \u201cwill showcase musicians that will create and deliver a song to be integrated in all NFL promotions each month during the season,\u201d Roc Nation and the NFL said Friday. Proceeds from those songs will also benefit Inspire Change.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, Roc Nation announced that they would serve as \u201clive music entertainment strategist\u201d for the NFL, even though Jay-Z had been critical of the league\u2019s handling of the anthem protests and its treatment of Colin Kaepernick.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe NFL has a great big platform, and it has to be all-inclusive,\u201d Jay-Z told the New York Times<\/em> when the partnership was announced. \u201cThey were willing to do some things, to make some changes, that we can do some good.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, Jay-Z has faced continued reproach for aligning with the NFL, with Carolina Panthers\u2019 Eric Reid, Kaepernick\u2019s former teammate on the San Francisco 49ers, among the more vocal critics of the rapper<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that we forget that Colin\u2019s whole thing was to bring attention to social injustice, correct?\u201d Jay-Z said in a follow-up press conference, defending the deal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo in that case, this is a success; this is the next thing. \u2018Cause there\u2019s two parts of protesting. You go outside and you protest, and then the company or the individual says, \u2018I hear you. What do we do next?\u2019 So for me it was like, action, actionable item, what are we going to do with it? Everyone heard and we hear what you\u2019re saying, and everybody knows I agree with what you\u2019re saying. So what are we going to do? So we should, millions of millions of people, and all we get stuck on [is] Colin not having a job.\u201d<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Meek Mill and Rapsody will both perform a free concert during the NFL Kickoff Experience at Chicago\u2019s Grant Park on September 5th, the first event under the new partnership between Jay-Z\u2019s Roc Nation and the NFL. The rappers will host two Chicago-based community organizations, BBF Family Services and Crushers Club, for the concert; following the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-799026","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-20 09:00:51","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}