According to BuzzFeed News, Jay Z will hold a concert in Cleveland, Ohio in an effort to mobilize young black voters for Hillary Clinton.
Hov previously performed at a rally in Columbus, Ohio with Bruce Springsteen back in 2012 in support of President Barack Obama’s reelection campaign. During his performance of “99 Problems” he changed the lyrics to “I got 99 problems but Mitt ain’t one.” Former president Bill Clinton was also in attendance at Jay’s Made in America music festival in Philadelphia back in September.
This is a shift for the rapper, who on his Vol. 3… Life and Times of S. Carter song “NYMP,” saying “I take and rape villages, who gon’ stop him?/Not Rudy Guiliani, not Hillary Rodham.”
BuzzFeed News reports that the Clinton campaign “has struggled to excite young black voters,” with CNN reporting that this electoral demographic has been “reluctant to rally around Clinton, in part, because of comments she made in the 1990s and her support of President Bill Clinton’s crime bill.” Additionally, polls have found that Trump could get zero percent of the black vote in Ohio.
The location and date of the show have not been set.
