But this article isn’t about that. It’s about what happened immediately before the show. According to US Weekly, in the hours before her performance, Beyonce received a delivery of ten thousand roses from her husband: a Mr. Sean Carter.

Jay. What the fuck.

You know that Valentines Day is coming up right? Every woman in America is expecting a gift from bae this coming Sunday and you have raised the bar way too goddamn high for the rest of us. You think anyone’s girl is gonna be satisfied with candy and a bouquet now? Guys all over the country are gonna be showing up with a dozen roses only to get hit with “Jay gave Bey literally 833 times this…”

So yeah, thanks for that, Hov. Now we all gotta shell out for skywriting or some shit. On V Day the sky above New York is gonna have so many chicks’ names in it that it’ll look like a baby name book. Hope you’re happy, Jay. Hope you’re happy.

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On the first day of the trial Jay was asked by the judge what he does for a living, presumably because the judge has been in a coma since 1992.

“I make music, I’m a rapper, I’ve got a clothing line, I run a label, a media label called Roc Nation, with a sports agency, music publishing and management. Restaurants and nightclubs… I think that about covers it.”

Until his attorney quickly reminded him that he also owns a streaming service.

First things first: Jay, your attorney just called you out in front of the courtroom. He seems like the kind of guy that run up on you while you’re talking to girls at at a club and loudly ask why your wife isn’t here tonight. if you want some more tactful representation, give me a call and I’ll set you up with my people. They ain’t passed the bar but they know a lil bit.

Now that that’s out of the way: this is embarrassing for Jay. I’d say it’s a lot like when you’re introducing your kids to people and you just can’t remember the name of the little weird one who insists on wearing gloves even in the summer. Keith, or Kyle maybe. Doesn’t matter, because you just pretend that you don’t notice him there and move on.

That metaphor might be a stretch but it’s safe to say that, despite the $56 million he spent on it, Tidal is not Jay’s highest priority. And after all the initial boasting, talking it up, and twitter ranting, I’m not super impressed by that.

I wanted to give Jay a -10 for this, but I like that when asked to give his profession the first thing Jay says is that he is a rapper. I think that’s worth something, so let’s only make this a -5

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Hov made his opinion of the service pretty clear on Magna Carta… Holy Grail with the line “fuck hashtags and retweets,” although this was already evident from the fact that six months regularly pass between @S_C_ tweets, when the rest of us can’t seem to get through breakfast without rifling off 140 characters.

So whenever we do get a peep out of Mr. Carter you know he has something that he really, really wants to say. That was the case this weekend when the normally quiet account erupted in a flurry of activity to defend the floundering Tidal.

It’s no secret that the streaming service Jay purchased earlier this year has been struggling. To me it seemed like a rushed decision inspired by other artists who recently made a shit-load of cash off of a tech company. It quickly fell out of the iPhone’s top 700 downloads chart while at the same time, Tidal’s attack campaigns on competitors Spotify and Pandora actually helped pushed those two into the top 10.

If you want to read through the entire rant you can do so here, but the general premise is basically “Guys, stop making fun of Tidal! It’s doing fine. Really. Guys, stop!”

I like to picture this began with Jay reading the Youtube comments section (always a bad idea) of the Tidal commercial video before going “Damnit, that’s it! Bey, what’s my twitter password??” followed by a 30-minute search for the post it note that he wrote it down on when he last tweeted, in 2014.

Now, I get where Jay is coming from. He has to defend his investment. My problem with this whole thing is that it just feels a little desperate. And he made matters worse today when he announced that part of the “exclusive content” that Tidal has been dangling in front of potential subscribers would be an exclusive concert of “Jay Z B-Sides”

Yup, Jay basically just said “Hey everyone, you know all those number one hit songs that have defined me as one of the most successful artists of all time? How would you feel about a concert where I specifically don’t play those!! Anyways, subscriptions start at $9.99, but for $19.99 you get…”

This whole thing is just giving more credence to what people have suspected for a while: that his wealth and success have caused the rapper who once lost 92 bricks to lose touch with his roots. Hopefully he can crawl back from this too, but for now I’m giving Mr. Carter a 15 point deduction.