Jay-Z Settles This Viral Social Media Discussion Unequivocally. This Is His Take

Since 2021, this question has been asked on innumerable number of occasions on the internet – Would you rather have $500,000 or lunch with Jay-Z? Fans of the legendary rapper Jay-Z has been pulling up this question online, making it one of the debatable questions on the web.

In a new interview with CBS Mornings, the billionaire rapper was offered this equivalent conversation starter. And guess what he said! The rapper additionally set up one more debate to the question; saying:

“You gotta take the money,” the Brooklyn-born artist told Gayle King. “What am I gonna say [at lunch]?”

Any advice he could give can be found in his music, said Jay-Z, whose net worth was as of late assessed to be $2.5 billion. Taking a dinner with him rather than going home with $500,000 would be a waste, he said.

“I wouldn’t tell you to cut a bad deal,” he said. “Take the $500,000, go buy some albums and listen to the albums. It’s all there.”

Take the $500,000, go buy some albums and listen to the albums. It’s all there. The 53-year-old recommended that fans “really listen to the music for the words.”

“Everything I said was gonna happen, happened. Everything I said I wanted to do, I’ve done,” he said. “The blueprint to me, to my life and my journey, is already there.”

In fact, Jay-Z himself isn’t above taking a high-profile lunch meeting. In 2010, he sat down with legendary investor Warren Buffett to discuss his strategy of only investing in businesses he understands.

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“Music is like stocks, there’s the hot thing of the moment,” the rapper said at the time. “People tend to make emotional decisions based on that. They don’t stick with what they know.”

“Jay is teaching in a lot bigger classroom than I’ll ever teach in,” Buffett said in 2010. “For a young person growing up, he’s the guy to learn from.”