The legendary DJ Clark Kent recently caught up with the Usual Suspects’ DJ O-Sharp and Trav Dave to discuss his memories of working with a young Jay-Z. He says that he brought Hov to Atlantic Records when he was working at the label as an A&R, but the label passed on the budding star.
“I brought [Jay-Z to Atlantic Records],” he said. “Because I worked there as an A&R, I’m going to say that they didn’t have enough budget [to sign him] because enough signings had happened at that precise moment, so maybe that’s why. I’m going to leave it that way. I’m not going to sit here and say that I didn’t like [Atlantic], because later on after we put records out ourselves, everybody was like [to Jay], ‘We love you!’…when that ‘Ain’t No Nigga’ [song] came out, it was trouble. It’s not like [just] one label that I worked for let him slide by him. [Atlantic] slid by him for so long that I quit and went to work for another company and they slid by him for so long, so that I was like, ‘We’ve just got to put out our own shit’…the rest is just billionaire status.”
The full video interview can be seen below.
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i couldve sign da nigga too..but Dame wouldnt let me fuck his cousin..so i had to pass man..i know dame wouldve wish he couldve hooked me and stacy up, now he broke lookin like santa claus wit not sack..lol…Ballz if you want to be direct
Didn’t they pass on Kanye West also?
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