With the dust settled at Roc-A-Fella Records, Memphis Bleek is set to be the first artists to drop his album for 2005. With Jay-Z having taken over Def Jam Records, Memphis feels as if he has been given new start for him as an artist. “He (Jay-Z) was like ‘Forget everything you’ve done in the past. Your career starts now. He just let me know its’ a clean slate, ‘You ain’t got to worry’”, Bleek told MTV. “I can have fun all over again. I got my swagger back”. With labelmates Foxy Brown, Young Gunz and Freeway all in the studio, Memphis sees’s his new album as the first to hit the streets. “My album, you know, with all the switch-ups with the labels, that put me on the back burner till the smoke cleared. Now the smoke is clear, my boy is doing what he’s doing, and I’m the first priority dropping. It’s either me or Foxy, whoever finished first. But I think I’ve got the jump on her because we just mixed my single”.
And how does he feel about the original Roc-A-Fella Records that we have known for the last two years be broken up. “I’m gonna be all the way truthful. I try to act like I don’t care or whatever, but c’mon, man, when I first was introduced to Dame and Biggs, it was family thing. To see that break up is like losing a second part of your family. When things went wrong, we were supposed to correct it. We weren’t supposed to go that far”.
