“Excessive” Demands

Posted on December 6th, 2007 - By Bossip Staff

Categories: Jay-Z, News

Posted by Bossip Staff

Doug Morris Jay-Z

Camel might be out of a job when he gets back from stuntin in Paris for his B’day. Universal says he’s getting a wee bit ridiculous with his expectations monetarily:

“He wanted big, big money that was way out of sync with the realities of today’s record business.”

Island/Def Jam CEO L.A. Reid and his boss, Doug Morris, are said to have found Jay’s demands “excessive” in light of the time he’s been spending on tour.

“People have lost count of how many times he’s come out of retirement. Everybody knows he’s not around the office much. Everybody at Universal loves him, but they can’t justify paying him the money he wants when so many people have been laid off.”

His contract is said to expire at the end of this month.

He doesn’t seem to be sweating too tough though.

Via NY Daily News

Jay-Z L.A. Reid

  • Soul Cry

    Jay will be alright.

  • Soul Cry

    Oh hey…can I say FIRST? hehehe

  • TT

    Who is the source for these quotes?

  • TT

    OH nevermind..NY Daily News :)

  • bobshfdfg

    he is so cool. Girls who like him should be aware of this. A young lady said she saw

    his photo on a celebrity and millionaire dating site named’ searching millionaire. com ‘last night.

  • kai

    You cant fault that man for expecting the most. Hell, we gotta demand the most for everything we do, otherwise they gon pay us less than our worth.

  • Traycee

    I am quite sure Jay does NOT care. He’s purely a BUSINESS MAN……..it’s strictly for the money. He will be just fine.

  • http://www.myspace.com/birdshu Bird

    I guess he can just start another label, but he will need a guy like Dame to be his right hand man if he wants to remain an artist. You can’t be an artist and an exec. Someone has to run the company. They should have kept that in mind when they hired an artist for a senior executive level position.

  • Just Sit And Be Pretty

    Jay’s money is so deep and diverse that even if Universal cuts him, no biggie. And from a business perspective, I can understand their concern if he is getting big bucks and never in the office. Plus, it doesn’t foster great morale among colleagues because imagine those staffers who work their asses off and probably don’t get paid a fraction of what Jay does.

  • Beeyah!

    50 said this already.. apparently he’s going to Columbia with the homey Rick Rubin.

  • karma

    WHOOO HOOOO now the artist at DefJam can get some shine… I know God is getting a lot of prayors coming up… Jay you might see those same people on your way down…

  • karma

    LL did you have anything to do with this?

  • karma

    question…

    If Jay doesn’t get another Exec type job will he and B relationship be able to last?…

  • Happy 2 B Nappy

    @Karma…I was going to say the same thing. Now LL can see that Jay was not the reason he was getting no love.

  • CubaLinda

    Well, I guess we now see what LL has been crying about. I’m sure its not going to crush him financially to get cut, but it doesnt look good when people begin to severe ties with you because you are demanding and not at all sensitive to their bottom-line.

    I havent followed this too closely, can anyone tell me what he is attributed to bringing to the company as CEO and where his involvement has driven up revenue for him to have such demands???

  • WOL

    JAY-Z was said to be found at a millionaire&celebrity dating club MeetRich,com not long before, and he is hot there.Quite a few girls and ladies write to him.

  • FineAsWine

    IF I FELL OF A BOAT< JAY Z CAN I BORROW YOUR SOUP COOLERS

  • John

    I think Jay got all kinds of money so I don’t think this will worry him. If things do get tough maybe Bey will give him a job!

  • Lady Architect

    I’m sure its no big deal to jay, but thats very selfish that he rather a ton of people just get laid off because of his high demands and he’s already rich…smh he should have some demands where more african americans are hired in the industry so they too can prosper and grow to be just as rich…and people call this man the face for the blk community…sure I believe it.

  • Sun Goddess

    Shawn Carter is a expansive Sagittarius man. Business man. He will not lose sleep if this label drops him. So many more will scoop him up. Like Columbia.

  • tintin

    why they on jay z’s dick, i think there’s jealousy

  • Just Sit And Be Pretty

    goldenchild, Mary Fayke is our resident ass clown. LOL, didn’t you know? :-)

  • blu majic

    @Black Friday

    Jay has been on a small tour promoting American Gangster. I still feel like this is a whack article though!

  • Black Friday

    Sun Goddess, The question is who is the NY Post quoting…You know the NY Post didnt get this info directly from LA Reid…Now I know you can read right? Think before you write.

  • Mary J Blige

    I’m far too tired to deal with my resident stan Just Sit and be Stank and her various aliases (ie. golden child). I have humiliated you too many times but you seem to get off on it so whatever : )

    Like I said before, a no man having, no job getting, fake ass Afro wig wearing trick is of no concern to me! Have a great day butter face : )

    Lots of love,

    Your girl Mary

  • Mary J Blige

    And how many times do I have to tell you girl. Its “You’re” as in “YOU ARE” not “your”. Such an embarassment

  • I Sat On Santa’s Lap And He Said I Have A Bright Future Behind Me

    I knew this was going to happen, majority of us have been saying this for the longest. No jokes from this point. A few days ago they reported that a dozen or so Def Jam employees got the axe, these folks have families and this is the holiday season, how would you feel if your boss was using all the promotion money, fired you and took shopping sprees to Paris. Jay has overstepped his bounds, I like him more as an artist than a CEO. He has no empathy, when them folks got layed off cause of his excessive demands he had no compassion, this is not a crab in the bottom of a barrel, they had a job before he got there. He should have held a press conference about this them folks didn’t deserve to get fired. But Def Jam got what came to them that is what they get for hiring him in the first place! If I was one of them EMPLOYEES I would be waiting after work for Jigga, just to have a “talk” or I would “offer” to walk him to his car…Just saying, it is a joke but you get the pic? LOL

  • Buckwheat

    Oh Lordy…. I can tell another MJC & Just Sit battle is about to blow. TAKE COVER

    …let the coonery begin

  • Mary J Blige

    ↑ with a name like that you got some nerve to be calling anybody a “coon”. smh.

  • GOLDEN CHILD=MRS=JUST SIT AND BE PRETTY=MARY J BLIGE!!!

    ^^^THEY ARE ONE IN THE SAME! A RAVING LOONY TUNE WHO ARGUES WITH HERSELF ALL DAY

  • Unkle Kracka

    Fire the niggra alredy, whos idea was it to hire that monkey in the first place, evrybody nos that niggras lack the entalechual tools it takes to run a busness. Goddam firmative akshun.

  • Just Sit And Be Pretty

    Oh wait, didn’t I tell you to STOP trying so hard to convince people that I suffer from multiple personalities like YOU. Girl interrupted, we’re not all insane and in needs of meds like you. Silly rabbit… You know there is only one JSABP.

    Keep trying to manipulate and put your spin on things…it won’t work. LOL, “I” am the PR professional here. :-)

  • BB

    Please, I see this all the time. The source might not have been verified, but the CEO of my company recently gave himself a $10 million raise (which the board approved) but our stock has been tanking ever since he got here, it went from $120 per share to $26. Every year he keeps laying off staffers, and my colleagues are doing two and three jobs for the pay of one person.

    Oh, and our raises have been shrunk down to 3%, while the execs get $80,000 bonuses. When are we going to stop letting these GREEDY decision-makers treat us this way?

    JUST FRUSTRATED.

  • Jessica

    2 fire Jay Z would b lik sendn da company thru bankruptcy….U cnt blam a man 4 askn 4 wat he’s worth….but er body 2 busy tryna gt ther hustle on 2 realize it!But dnt thnk Jay gon b hurt 2 leav….HE GON BE RICH ON HIS BROK DAYS….Jay go file unemployment n c what it do…..lmfao

  • http://www.yahoo.com Southern Belle 225

    @lady architect

    I co-sign. sure he will be ok financially but is money really the only thing that’s important? And not to be funny, but what has he really contributed as CEO? I really don’t follow his business so I would really like to know.

  • CubaLinda

    BB~ Any chance you work at UBS aka You & Us?

  • hotfreelancer

    JAY-Z already told ya’ll on the Blueprint…

    Industry shady it need to be taken over /

    Label owners hate me I’m raisin’ the status quo up /

    I’m overchargin’ @#*$%z for what they did to the Cold Crush /

    Pay us like you owe us for all the years that you ho’d us -

    Get ‘em Jay

  • usmarine

    Def Jam has got to be carefull with this situation because in his contract it says that he can take all the artist he signed to the label along with his catalog in a few years. That means Rhiana,Neyo,Fab,Nas,Kanye,The Dream,etc. I’m pretty sure Warner Bros and Sony would take all those artist right about now. lol

  • http://www.yahoo.com Southern Belle 225

    @god body

    he did rap def jam. but he also raped alot of people out of jobs. just cause he is jigga don’t make that cool.

  • Mr O Dot

    southern belle,

    is camron paying you to hate on Jay so foolishly?

  • Mr O Dot

    ps, I cosign with god body

  • Kigali

    I need a few questions answered: What is his title, what is he supposed to do, has he done it?

    Also people get laid off all the time for all kinds of reasons. Thats the nature of the machine.

  • Sticky

    This sounds like a disgruntled employee who was part of the industry’s seasonal firings. It’s happens everywhere. Hell didn’t the government just start to lay off like 100,000 people.

  • looking in

    This is probaly true. They are offering Jay 10 million. His first deal was 10 million for 3 years which means they are most likely offering more producing money and publishing and he wants more money upfront. And Rihanna, Neyo and others are signed to DEF JAM not JAY-Z. If he leaves they will continue on without him. Nice rumor though it shows how much folks really don’t know about the business. He has broken an artist a year since he signed on with Def Jam and they are not offering him a raise and producing money is great but the only one of those artist tht is big right now is Rihanna and um she really ain’t selling like that.She is more hype than anything. She has barely sold 800,000 copies here so he really ain’t making money off of her like that. So I am interested in what is going to happen

  • Bahama Mama

    whateva happens like hov said “I’m not a businessman, I’m a BUSINESS MAAANNNNN!

  • Beyonce

    My camel, I mean man aint get fired.we having a good ole time in Pari what ya’ll talkin bout. my momma said he ain’t going down till she say so.we’s gettin married soon aint no firing of jigga, tyty tell em to stop.

  • Black Friday

    @Lucky:

    Ur an idiot. For real. Name a CEO who is doing good by your standards.

  • atlien

    just sit and be pretty be snappin. I think yall need to recognize her pimpin.

  • persona

    Leave Mary alone. She’s funny. Most of the people that post here aren’t that funny or smart, so who cares if she’s fake.

  • lucky

    at Black Friday

    You can’t get mad because it’s the truth “MOFU”!Friday you need to tell beyowulf to scoot over so you can get on the left side of his nut sack.

  • David

    Let him get fired and see how real executives and “old world” businessmen run things.

  • wonkwonk

    dem checks bout to stop comin…

  • VB

    jay brought rihanna ,neyo,dream and co to def jam.he helped them put out three consecutive platnum albums .hemarketed kanyes last two projects .he took the def jam artists on tour and was responsible for def jam having the number one market share for three years in a row.so u bet ur ass he has a right to make big demands.

    so what if ppl got sacked.that has nuthing to do with jays money.it merely means they werent doing their jobs or their purpose was no longer needed.most of those people were street team people who werent getting paid major anyway and who were prolly temping.

  • lucky

    @ VB

    The people you just name keep in mind those are his artist.some of the people he brought on tour with him most likely from his own label”rockfella” i may be mistaken.

    But the people he promoted was basically his own artist and himself.Now he can go on to bigger and better and it just might be with a another record company or just plain doing his own thing .

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