Apparently Jay-Z’s cover issue of XXL is on newstands in NYC and Low felt the need to put up yet another excerpt (I feel like I’ve read the entire thing now haha). This time Hov talks about the speculation that has always floated about whether Jay or Dame made the executive decision to bring Kanye West on board to Roc-A-Fella Records.
Jay-Z on not receiving credit for Kanye West, Ne-Yo, Rihanna & Young Jeezy..
“Let’s first clear this thing about Dame and Kanye and all of us. We all had a conversation about Kanye and whether to sign him. No one knew what would become of Kanye. Not Dame, not me not Biggs. So we all sat down and said, “Let’s at least sign so we can keep the tracks in-house. It’s only good business.” And Dame said, “We can put Beans and Cam, surround him and make this type of album.” I wasn’t saying don’t sign Kanye, I was saying, at least keep the beats in-house, if anything. I don know. Maybe, maybe not. Let’s keep him here. Dame came up with the idea of surrounding him with Roc-A-Fella artists on his album, which never came out, ’cause when the album came in, everyone was like, “Oh this is good.” He stood on his own. If anything, I should be credited for wanting to sign him for his tracks. So even if Dame did sign him, he was gone at that time. I engineered those album. In my years there, even if Tina Davis signed Ne-Yo, she was gone. They were gonna drop Ne-Yo until Ty-Ty [Tyran Smith; former Def Jam VP of A&R] put his hand up and said, “I’ll do that project”.” So there’s no Ne-Yo if I’m not there. I scrapped on of his videos that no one knows about, pulled Hype Williams, pulled June Ambrose, my stylist, made the “So Sick” video, and he’s outta here. Rihanna, there’s just no getting around that. So in three years, I’ve worked on Kanye, Ne-Yo and Rihanna. I don’t even wanna talk about the Fab record that was mine ["Money Goes, Honey Stay (When The Money Goes Remix)" off Fab's latest LP, "Loso's Way], Jeezy doing “Go Crazy (Remix)” in my office. It doesn’t even make sense to [list] like that, cause it’s childish.”
Jay-Z on the business mindset of Dame Dash…..
“I don’t want people to take this wrong, but if that’s my opinion. that’s my opinion. Dame is good at starting something. I don’t know if he gets in his own way at a certain point. You know, the fights you had coming up aren’t the same fights when you’re on a different level. What would happen is, a lot of times, I would have to go fix. You know, it was time-consuming, going back and just doing three meetings, when we could have had one. Nothing got accomplished, because everyone was screaming at each other. It got to a point…..John Meneilly (Jay’s manager) is not even the same type of thing.”
Interesting but really doesn’t phase me.
jay-z, youre garbage
@anony, please, please, please….Kill yourself…slowly
That jacket is dope.
*Finishes listing accomplishments*
It doesn’t even make sense to [list] like that, cause it’s childish.”
that jacket is as plain as a white t.
i feel like i need to go pick up this magazine. maybe ill read it on the plane home from seattle… speaking of which…. anyone know anyhting going on in seattle this weekend besides bumbershoot? u-n-i is there. i would like to go. but its 50 bucks and im not trying to drop that
@Jayborne i was bout to say the same
any1 notice he bite Wales idea of sampling Justice on his album. it’s on the song “On to the Next One”.
You say that like Wale is the ONLY nigga allowed to sample Justice… So if I sample Michael Jackson, and you sample Michael Jackson sometime later, you’re biting my idea? NIGGA PLEASE! Furthermore, it was probably more of Swizz’s idea to sample them…
@truth PAX
what about the whole Joe Budden thing…? id like a proper explanation for that one
MAYNNNNN , Fuck Jigga!
@ Vantes Even buckshot said Jay was goin around wit a pen a nd pad jackin other peoples ish..he specifically mentions Wale too
@ noo & trilla….at the end of the day, how much does it even matter anyway?
jayz a beast ..much respect no one answers the media better than hov …madd poise and jokes but soo serious …the albums effin crazzzy son!!
hov = garbage. that shit is just weak. how the fuck are you gonna sit there and say it was OUR idea to sign him but then say im the one who gave him the start. fuckin’ fail hov. just kill ya self camel.. oh and everything after black album has been garbage too..
He did kill it with his last statement. He says its childish to mention them but yet he still mentions them. Nonetheless some people dont give him enough credit. Still, let your actions speak for themselves, and don’t be so arrogant. Jay-Z is still the G.O.A.T.
hahaaaaa i knew college dropout was ghost written by the good folks at roc-a-fella records.
“I was saying, at least keep the beats in-house, if anything. I don know. Maybe, maybe not”…basically it was dames idea to back kanye…kanye used to say it all the time…listen to college dropout and check his interviews. He even said he felt he didnt go with the loyalty card when he left with jay after the roc breakup.
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Blah blah blah nigga it was all fake love between y’all niggas and y’all trying to pretend like you liked each other in each others face and used business as a tool to solidify a reason why you guys ain’t cool! Ever since Roc ended both Jay-Z and Dame have been on a mission to maing their self look good as if they were the “real” friend that was bambozzled! Please! Y’all both fucked each other and the artist always wins because he has the fans not the CEO’s or owners fans don’t relate to those people.
I garanantee you Jay-Z didn’t say any of those things to Dame at the time to make business better. He just was mad behind close doors and just tried to save him self. Instead of checking the problem he walk around it in a scared girly fashion like he always had.
Both fans and compnanies relate to what is marketable and Jay-Z was/is the product at the end of the day so he continued to get rich while Dame suffered. All the while these 2 idiots were were really hurting the artists beind them. 98% of those artists from that Roc era are struggling to get back to the limelight all because of these 2 niggas hating on each other for power and money! What a sick story!