Dame Dash played a huge role in the development of Roc-A-Fella Records; so he has a good idea about which albums from the imprint are the best.
During an interview with Kick Game for an episode of Shopping For Sneakers, Dame listed his top three Roc-A-Fella albums, and the selections should come as no surprise.
“Kanye’s first album, The Blueprint and Reasonable Doubt,” Dame said, before letting the show host know he knew how hot they were based off the response. “I put them out.”
Kanye West’s first studio album, The College Dropout, debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200, selling 441,000 copies in its first week of sales. It became West’s best-selling album in the United States and was certified four-times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in 2020.
JAY-Z’s debut album, Reasonable Doubt, kickstarted Roc-A-Fella Records’ ascent to the top of the Hip Hop mountain when it was released in June 1996. It debuted at No. 23 on the Billboard 200, on which it charted for 18 weeks, and has been ranked by many as one of the greatest Hip Hop albums of all time.
The praise was repeated once more with JAY-Z’s sixth studio album, The Blueprint, which dropped on September 11, 2001, the same day as the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and debuted at No. 1, moving over 420,000 copies in its first week.
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Although things may not be the same between Dame and Hov these days, the music executive is still fairly close with Ye and he let that be known during his talk with Kick Game. As he explained, Kanye is his brother and people should show more compassion for what he’s currently going through.
“He’s my brother,” he began. “[We don’t talk] constantly – when he needs me and when I’m worried about him. What you think? I’m worried about him. N-gga, can I ask you a question? Is he bipolar or not, did he tell you that? So if you checked off the boxes of bipolar, is he acting that? So then leave it at that.”
He continued: “Worry about his health if you care about him at all. I’m just saying, man, regardless to what he’s saying, it’s the way he’s saying it. I don’t care what he’s saying, I want him to live. Y’all worried about the wrong shit.
“If you know a man has a problem and you know he might be checking the boxes off for the symptoms of that problem, why do you judge him as if he doesn’t have a problem? It’s not logical.”
kanye was a better artist before the split and a better business person after the split
Kanye has shown over the past two weeks that he’s a terrible business person though. lmao.
Better business person? You serious? If he was so good at business he wouldn’t need all these companies that dropped him. I will give you he HAD great business since, now not so much.
Top three, The B.Coming, In My Lifetime Volume One and Late Registration
This dude be older than a mf lmaoooooo
OK boomer is what low earning losers say who are butthurt they can’t succeed and own a nice home lmaoooooo
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The College Dropout is overrated as fvck. Kanye took a sample and used it as a loop without any creativity off his own. He used records from Chaka Khan, Marvin Gaye, Luther Vandross, etc. and looped a portion off it to make a record. Nothing original. And people called him a genius for that?? Than he rapped about his middle class environment wearing a backpack and people called him fashion. I’ve never understood how people could call this guy a genius since everything he did was duplicating what others did before him: from the music buisness (he duplicated Daft Punk, Justice, Bon Iver, No I.D., etc.) to the fashion world (APC, Louis Vuitton, Adidas, etc.). He fvcked the rap game in such a bad way that rap music wasn’t about the streets anymore but fashion shows, skinny super models, trips to Paris, relationships w/ his exes, etc. He turned the rap music into such a pussy genre that it lead to the music we have today with rappers acting all feminine and sensitive like Drake, Tyler The Creator, Young Thug, etc. GTFOH!
ITS A 3.5/5 ALBUM TO ME. VERY OVERRATED.
Why you reporting on dead people? Dude literally a zombie now…and his opinion don’t matter. He was jay zee cheerleader now he looking hella dusty because of his big mouth
Roc La Familia is the last Jay album I’ll listen to
That Freeway album is top 3