Did Jay-Z get ripped?
If you're worth millions and millions of dollars and your wife is worth millions and millions of dollars and the two of you break up, should your wife get to take any of your money along with her own millions?
Just now, I came across a story over on Vibe about the details of Jay-Z and Beyonce's prenup, which I'd heard about in passing the other day while I was on my way to the BGM, and I'm not sure what to think.
On the one hand, it's not a bad deal, in the sense that, should the two of them go their separate ways, it's not like Jay-Z's gonna go broke or anything. But on the other hand, I'm not sure that, if I had that kind of money, I'd even give a bitch the satisfaction. (My bad, ladies.)
The story at Vibe includes the following handy breakdown of Jay-Z and Beyonce's financial situation. My bad about the silly hip-hop slang. The Vibe staff must be self-conscious about their perceived blackness.
- $150,000,000: Guap Jay-Z is due to receive from his Live Nation contract, along with 775 thousand of the company’s shares.
- $83,000,000: The amount of dough Jay-Z reportedly could put in his pocket in 2007 alone according to Forbes.
- $36.000,000: Approximate price of a jet like the one Jay-Z owns, which Beyoncé can now take trips on whenever she likes.
- $27,000,000: The amount of cheese Beyoncé reportedly put in her purse in 2007 alone according to Forbes.
- $25,000,000: The total possible amount Bey could earn if Jay-Z don’t know how to act.
- $10,000,000: What Beyoncé receives upfront in the event of the couple’s separation.
- $5,000,000: The amount Beyoncé receives from her husband for each seed they have.
- $1,000,000: The net worth of Jay-Z’s 1959 Rolls Royce convertible, which Beyoncé, as his wife, now has access to.
The way it works is, if Jay comes to his senses and drops Beyonce like a bad habit, she'll get $10 million off top, plus $5 million for each kid she has by him - but that gets capped at 3 kids, in case he ends up knocking her up 9 times or some shit, which is the kind of shit I'd try to do on GP, and I don't even like kids.
She also gets to have this car he owns that's worth $1 million, which doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. My guess is that her father, who I'm assuming is the one that was pushing so hard for this marriage in the first place, might be particularly fond of the car and pushed to have that provision included in the prenup.
I don't necessarily mean to suggest that Beyonce's father literally pimped his daughter out to Jay-Z. I'm just saying. We might need to keep an eye out on what happens to that Rolls Royce. Also, this might be a way for me to finally get a car that's worth a shit. I just need to have an attractive daughter, though I wonder if that's possible.
Another aspect of this agreement that struck me as odd: if the two of them break up, she doesn't get possession of his plane, which is worth more than she's getting altogether, but she does get to take free rides on it whenever she wants. I'm not sure if that was a good idea, especially if he ever actually wants to use his plane again.
But my main concern is that he's giving Beyonce any money at all. Even if it is just $10 million, and $10 million to Jay-Z is the equivalent of the $6 I spent on a six pack of Bud Light with Lime last night. (This turned out to be a bad idea.) It's the principle. You just don't give $10 million to a woman who made $27 million last year.
Something tells me 50 Cent wouldn't have agreed to anything like this.

