Rapper/entrepreneur Jay-Z was featured on the cover of the most recent issue of Rolling Stone magazine, which chronicles the artist’s journey from the Marcy projects to the boardroom.
The article, simply titled “King of America,” the larger-than-life entertainer covered topics ranging from his longevity in the game, his previous albums, and his and wife Beyonce’s taste in art.
While several of these topics have been discussed before, Jay-Z opened up about his tenure as President of Def Jam. When asked which times at the label were frustrating, he repiled, “Honestly? All of them. The culture there has been institutionalized. You had record executives who’ve been sitting in their office for 20 years because of one act. ‘But that’s the guy who signed Motley Crue!’ Seriously? That was fucking 25 years ago.
“When you look at what’s happening, the record business is purging itself,” elaborated Hov, pointing out that Def Jam oversaturated the market. “Def Jam released 57 albums one year. Are there 57 good artists in the world, let alone on one label? If you have 57 artists and four of them break, that’s bad business. What a terrible model. I told them, ‘How about this idea – instead of spending $300 million to break four acts, why don’t you just give me a credit line, and I’ll just do things. I won’t make music. I’ll go buy some headphones, or buy a clothing line, just be part of the culture.’ But the money scared them off, because they’re not used to thinking the way.”
The latest issue of Rolling Stone is on news stand shelves now.
Makes sense…….He wants to be CEO of a Hip-Hop label, to invest money in headphones….
Wait, that makes no fucking sense
Dude cares too much about his image / ego
Doesn’t really give a shit about helping out the culture or the music
If you care about the culture so much, how come you “still talkin yayo” (BP3) when you haven’t done that shit in 20 years? Grow up, camel face
“Are there 57 good artists in the world” ?
FUCK U JAYZ
He is right though…
no hes not right hes an arrogant asshole. i dont even like more than half his songs anyway he to me is an average artist. OOOOO IM JAYZ I PUT UP MORE NUMBERS THAN ANY OTHER 40 YEAR OLD RAPPER. fuck outta here HOV i can find 5 niggas down the street right now makin better music than you
“them ugly hoes say a nigga arrogant” -jeezy
Maybe he is a bit arrogant, but MOST ppl in his place might be….or they might just be that confident. Most of what he touches turns a profit, or is at the very least successful.
What I take away from what he said is that the market is over-saturated….and that with the way things currently are in the music industry, over-saturation leads to bad marketing practices and wasting of resources.
jay speeks the truth, half of these rappers suck penis skin
Now that is what they call a succesfull bussiness man. Jay Knows and understands the hustle. How else could he be were he is right now.
Like RZA say’s its all about knowledge and wisdom.
2day we listen 2 the psalm for G-unit-Beg for Mercy- eye for an eye, make sure put it on repeat all day.
from
great song
That track is better when you listen to the ORIGINAL with Mobb Deep, Raekwon, and NAS.
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Sorry wrong link! This is the one! http://www.datpiff.com/Evil_Empire_D-Roc_No_Excuses_Vol1.m123548.html
why is hophop dx still puttin up old articles. yall put up this shit b4. i clicked on it bcuz- i knew the first article the source material was from another source – rollin stone, so maybe you can’t put all the info cuz that would be plagerism (hope i spelled that right)
so i see the same headline pop up again and i’m thinkin damn well maybe the rollin stone issue came out maybe dx would expand on the info already given since it’s already out there yall might not get onto as much trouble for it.
naw basically it’s the same article with some extra sentences. and you call yourselves journalists.
SHAME
but then again too dx already knows certain headlines bring in traffic
It’s spelled plagiarism. . . Ol’ I attended ‘special classes’ in high school and licked windows on the short bus looking @$$ n!cc@
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The boi is right. If a label is working with 57 different artist, it’s not fair to any of them. They are just competing with eachother for the same radio play and album sales. It doesn’t help the artist any, but it still helps the label. I’ll put it like this: If 5 artist sell 1,000,000, they are going to make money, if you have 50 artist sellin 20,000 then they aren’t eating, but no matter what, it is still still 1 million sold for Def Jam, the label gets the same money, maybe even more if they charge for studio time and shit. Jay is right on the money.
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I’m pretty sure the guy that signed Motley Crue would be Tom Zutat, who signed the only other rock band to be bigger then them. Guns’n’Motherfuckin’ Roses. Jay-Z is lame.