{"id":2447497,"date":"2019-08-13T13:24:56","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T19:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=871200"},"modified":"2019-08-13T13:24:56","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T19:24:56","slug":"jay-z-and-roc-nation-partner-with-the-nfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/jay-z-and-roc-nation-partner-with-the-nfl\/","title":{"rendered":"Jay-Z and Roc Nation Partner With the NFL"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Roc Nation and the National Football Association announced a multi-tiered partnership on Tuesday afternoon. As part of the deal, Jay-Z\u2019s<\/a> entertainment company will become the NFL<\/a>\u2019s \u201clive music entertainment strategist,\u201d reports ESPN<\/a> and The New York Times<\/em><\/a>. The partnership will see Roc Nation assist in the league\u2019s key events like the Super Bowl halftime show, while also creating podcasts, visual albums, and organizing separate events and concerts. \u201cThe N.F.L. has a great big platform, and it has to be all-inclusive,\u201d Jay-Z told The Times<\/em>. \u201cThey were willing to do some things, to make some changes, that we can do some good.\u201d<\/p>\n

For years, Jay-Z was critical of the NFL\u2019s handling of peaceful protests from various players like Colin Kaepernick, who decided to kneel during the national anthem to bring attention to various forms of police brutality. In 2018, Jay called Kaepernick an \u201ciconic figure\u201d on CNN\u2019s The Van Jones Show<\/em><\/a> and showed his support for the quarterback onstage and during performances on Saturday Night Live<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The league aligning itself with one of its most outspoken proponents is likely a strategic move after years of bad publicity, and reports all suggest a focus on \u201csocial change\u201d will arise from the partnership. According to ESPN, the new deal has the potential to boost the NFL\u2019s Inspire Change initiative<\/a>, which focuses on education and economic advancement, police and community relations, and criminal justice reform. \u201cWe don\u2019t want people to come in and necessarily agree with us; we want people to come in and tell us what we can do better,\u201d NFL commissioner, Roger Goodell told ESPN. \u201cI think that\u2019s a core element of our relationship between the two organizations, and with Jay and I personally.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Roc Nation and the National Football Association announced a multi-tiered partnership on Tuesday afternoon. As part of the deal, Jay-Z\u2019s entertainment company will become the NFL\u2019s \u201clive music entertainment strategist,\u201d reports ESPN and The New York Times. The partnership will see Roc Nation assist in the league\u2019s key events like the Super Bowl halftime show, while […]<\/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":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2447497","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-26 04:59:46","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":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2447497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2447497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2447497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2447497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}