Jay-Z’s bitcoin school met with skepticism in his former housing project: ‘I don’t have money to be losing’
The Guardian says Marcy Houses, the 28-acre public housing development in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, is best-known as a pillar of rapper-turned-mogul Jay-Z’s New York persona. Built in 1949 as part of a push by the New York City Housing Authority to house the city’s low-income residents, Marcy had fallen into a state of dangerous disrepair by the 1970s when Jay-Z, whose real name is Shawn Carter, was growing up there.
“Where I’m from, Marcy son, ain’t nothing nice,” he raps in “Where I’m From”. “Marcy me, just the way I am always gonna be,” he declares in 2017’s Marcy Me.
But while hip-hop’s first confirmed billionaire remains intent on not abandoning his roots, residents of the Marcy Houses expressed annoyance and skepticism at Carter’s latest venture, The Bitcoin Academy – a series of free “financial literacy” courses being offered exclusively to Marcy tenants this summer.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/jun/17/jay-z-bitcoin-school-marcy-houses
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