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Roc Nation is moving like the Avengers out here these days, which makes JAY-Z like Captain America, or a two-eyed Nick Fury, surveying the lands and dispatching his team to swoop in when he spies an injustice. #FreeMeekMill? Say less. He's out. 21 Savage gets jammed up by ICE? Suddenly one of Jigga's most trusted counselors is on the case. Lil Uzi Vert is withering away under the heel of a domineering management deal? Now the Roc is managing him, and he drops his first new song in months days later, an absolute heater nonetheless.
At this point, it seems like Hova's new calling in life is righting the wrongs that negatively affect not only the music game, but the culture overall. Far be it from us to call the shots on the god's game of chess, but if they're fielding suggestions for new missions to undertake, we have a few. Difficult takes a day, impossible takes a week, right? Well, then...
Get "Old Town Road" back on the country charts
This is probably the most realistic entry on the whole list. The shitstorm around Lil Nas X's "Old Town Road" and the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart is the latest lightning rod in a larger conversation around genre bias and the underlying prejudices that may be inherent within it. Which is to say, it's exactly the type of issue JAY-Z likes to insert himself into these days. With the whole community (and then some) piqued by the story, solving this would be another altruistic W for Hov, and he might even gain a new client for Roc Nation management in the process. "Old Town Road" currently tops Billboard's overall chart, but it remains absent from the country category. Do your thing, Jay.
Renew 'One Day at a Time'
King Bey is down with Netflix now. Of course, that doesn't necessarily affect her other half's respective business moves, but if the Carter family as a whole is in league with the streaming giant beyond more than a one-off release, it'd be nice to see them flex their influence. Canceling One Day was one of the most notable recent chinks in Netflix's otherwise infallible armor, and seemingly a major miscalculation. Jay could pay what it costs to produce that show with his Puma track pants pocket change, and as we've seen with his new Gold Party, Hova clearly has a vested interest in moving further into Hollywood. What better way to score a win-win than reviving a dearly-departed fan favorite?
Fix André 3000 and Jay Electronica's release productivity
Good God, some higher power needs to intervene on behalf of Erykah's baby fathers: two geniuses in every true sense of the word who nonetheless refuse to reward us for our patience and Standom. André has been torturing us with a will-they-or-won't-they dance around a solo album for what feels like at least five years now. Meanwhile, on the heels of us collectively making peace with a Jay Elec proper debut never coming to fruition, halfway-credible teases about a collab JAY squared album surfaced. Once again, we find ourselves in the throes of immediately declaring it to be too-good-to-be-true, but also so-crazy-it-just-might-happen. We've lost enough sleep over both of these dudes. Jigga, hit em with the wise words of Marlo Stanfield, please: "Do it or don't."
Keep the DC Extended Universe on track
Aquaman is so ridiculous it's fun. Shazam! is out now, and it's very charming. The Joker trailer is a solid step towards trusting the guy behind the Hangover trilogy with one of the best villains of all time. DC finally has enough momentum to get them fully back on track, which has us worried they'll just fuck things up immediately. We need a guy who managed one of the best rap labels of all time to get in there and help set them straight. How much different can stabilizing DC be from keeping the trains running on time for Freeway, Beans, Bleek and the Young Gunz, for an impressively sustained period? With Hova's help, they may even reformulate something approaching interconnectivity again. At the very least, just release the Snyder-cut of Justice League so fanboys can stop mythologizing it like it's Citizen Kane.
Sort out Kanye's publishing
Kanye could use a whole other host of "helpful suggestions" but the man told us not to "Michael and Prince" them and we're going to respesct that request. But, it also feels like we won't get Yandhi until Ye resolves that whole knotty mess that's going on with his publishing. We need a proper Kanye album to help us forget Ye, and Ye needs a man who has never been trapped by a bad deal in his life to help him sort this situation out. And if they heal their rift definitively through this process and give us WTT 2? Well, that's just icing on the cake.