Monday, December 24th, 2007
Jay-Z Steps Down
Posted By Bossip Staff
It’s over. Jay-Z will step down as the president of Def Jam when his contract expires this year. Where does this leave the Stans? We can imagine the facial expressions on LL and every other Def Jam artist who believed Camel was the root of their problems.
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FIRST!!!!!!!!!!!
It’s about time now some real artists can get some shine!
Merry Christmas
1st
Guess he’s on to BIGGA and better things…SWEET
I knew that was coming. Too much mess was going on and Jay-Z was the only one getting rich!
oh oh, i smell trouble. now that he wont be so busy BDAY will have nothing but time to get his ***** to hitch her up…lol
it’s been a good run. go relax jay, relax.
I WONDER WHAT THIS MEANS FOR RIHANNA?
I mean we knew this was coming.
I mean it’s different if you were an successful artist and hen you naturally move up in the industry to an executive position. But it’s another thing when you get it just because you have been one of the more successful artists on the label.
Alot of these “young” cats are getting way too much success and haven’t even earned it or don’t know anything about the industry. They want to own everything before they are 40 and think they can be in every industry. I mean some of these cats really think they are doing things, up there witht he big dogs.
oh…..
Oh well…. he’s still rolling in dough!!!
Does this mean that LL and the rest of the played out bumb ***** *****s well see platinium again… Hell Naw! Go get money where the appreciate you Big Homie!
Jigga Man you did good and who have to deal with other things now like you been doing they can’t knock the hustle.
Jigga Man the game was/is yours Now you can gracefully boul out of Def Jam.
Biggest fan soon to be wife ONE DAY.
Everybody need 2 stop riding Jay-Z so much and get them some business and maybe u wont b so surprised whenever he farts!!! As for Beyonce stop jocking he wouldn’t b with none of yall broke *****es even if he wasn’t with her u c he wouldn’t get w/that gap toothed ***** Miss Jones that’s y she always jocking B! If she would have put so much energy into her career as she does with Jay & Beyonce she might could have been the next up Beyonce!!!! Some ebonics 4 the ignorant mother lovers!
I can imagine the facial expressions on all tha gay ***** bossip staff members now that they cant right anymore articles on jayz lmao ps this site *****in sucks …
Top 25 ?
http://www.my*****e.com/GOTSTRONG
he didn’t do ***** with def jam except run it into the ground, anyway. def jam experienced their lowest sales ever under his leadership (his last 2 flop albums included). now he can pay attention to his played-out girlfriend, and try to do something to save her career now.
FYI…he’s going to Sony’s New Music Group with Rick Rubin…watch.
he’s on top of his game now kids…he’s only moving ahead…
“I wonder what this means for rihanna.”
please. rihanna just won YET ANOTHER award over has-been beyonce the other night, and with the grammys coming up, she’s on to bigger and better things.
It’s still HOVIE BABY!!!! I wonder what’s next…
……I guess LL got an early Christmas present……
also FYI…Def Jam R&B THRIVED under Jay-Z…hip-hop was down, but it was that way industry wide…
so now he’s gonna go ***** up sony’s new music group, too.
but if he’s the almighty jay-z like you *****-riders make him out to be, then def jam should have had the biggest sales ever in their entire history.
sister
I think there’s some truth to that, ’cause not too long ago I heard him and Bey were gonna start their own label……hmmm……………….
I reported this before Bossip in previous posts. Bossip, do you need to hire someone like me to post things on time?
anonymous…
*****ody’s a d*-rider, but not a hater either…man did and is doing his thing…you can’t not like him personally or as performer…but he’s kinda gettin it right now…seriously…he owns an NBA team, has a franchise bar about to drop in Vegas and might open a hotel in MANHATTAN, NY!!! that’s kinda major.
lol he was the president of Def Jam??????
“just a hype man for the white man”
Steps down or got fired? Let’s use the right terminology.
On the rihanna comment so what she won another award…its about time she has but don’t forget this is her THIRD album and is she finally get recognition cause of being Jigga ho!!!
@ Sister… He owns like 1% of an NBA team, that hardly suffices that he owns.]]About his ownership of the 40/40… let the next employee scandal drop and he will be running to the judges saying he is “only an investor, not an owner.” Just like he did last time.
I know Beyaki got a kick out of telling people that Jay-z was the CEO of Def Jam, not just a rapper. I hope she is still attracted to him some other way or gets her kicks some other way.
So his contract is up .
He might be building up a fire resume`.
Who’s to say he won’t start his own label and was just getting the “how tos” down???
Disclaimer:
I’m just sayin….
We’ll see what happens… chance are that he and Rick Rubin will hook up. But… NE-YO, RHIANNA, ALL OF ROC-A-FELLA ARTIST…JADA KISS, BEANS, NAS… WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THEM????
Okay Jay is gone…so is Ll no longer Washed up? Please…half Of them complaining was flopping Before Jay and will flop after him.hate on haters
wow. What’s next cause you know he’s not going back into retirement. I’m just glad he’s giving this record deal up while he’s “ahead”
I do not care what anyone says. There a lot of people on Def Jam who no one would know if it weren’t for Jay-Z.
Some of ya’ll forgot, he got $204 Million Dollars in the bank…
Let me repeat that for the ones that are slow and/or forgot that… $204 Million Dollars – not stocks, bonds or mutual funds, but CASH…
If you had $204 Million Dollars (“CA$H” – just had to repeat it one more time, because some of ya’ll are REALLY slow) would you really care about much of anything else?
Just keep that in mind when you are about to diss this man… Just think about what this man has done with his life and where he’s at and then think about where you’re at and your cash flow…
Enough said…
Haters continue on, if you must…
Oh yeah, Merry Christmas :- )
Who do you even know on Def Jam other than Rihanna?
Co- sign @Really… I like Jay but it is almost like a player/ coach in sports. You really can’t do both, People keep saying that LL flop and washed up, but he was doing good numbers. LL, METH, REDMAN… I mean alot of dudes were having issue with Jay. Even Memphis Bleek (who never came out with a album), Beans numbers down, Nas numbers down. You can’t put that all on Jay, but when your artist saying that they can’t get thier budgets approve because Jay is off working on his 2! ALBUMS and everyone else is getting selved or pushed back… Jay approved 15million in budget money with his two albums and Kanye’s… So, we will see if it was Jay or the artist themselves. BUT IF DAME GETS THAT SEAT…. NE-YO, RIHANNA AND EVERY OTHER R&B ACT BETTER RUN… INCLUDING MARIAH CAREY…
@KEEPIN’ IT REAL, HE GOT MORE THAN THAT REAL TALK. SEAN CARTER’S EST. WORTH WAS PUT AT 365 MILLION DOLLARS, BY FORBES MAG LAST YEAR…BUT, I DON’T THINK IT IS ABOUT PAPER WITH JAY, DO YOU THINK MAYBE I AM WRONG????
He didnt do shyt but promote his own wack ***** albums – I’m a fan of Uncle Hove, but go out on top. Be like 60 rapping bout jewels, old nursing home biches and ben-gay rub down…….
Now there is enough paper for all of us washed up over 40 rappers to sign with Def Jam. LL you, Kool Moe, Three Times Dope, Kwame, everybody named Roxanne and myself are about to shine.
Now who will LL blame?
for the love of god do stans know the meaning of estimated net worth. he does not have 346 million or 204 million in the bank cash value. his estate is worth that much meaning if he sold his clothing lines, sold his investment stocks, sold his property, etc, etc. the federal bank can only cover 100,000 if the stock market crash which is why wealthy people tie their money up in property and stocks. he probably has about 30 mill in cash value, granted he’s still rich but again the stans need to get their facts straight and stop staning so much. and jay is old. he has been 38 years for the last four years, but the media w***** in him won’t let him retire, and enjoy his money.
Please tell LL that yes Jay Z is gone and we still don’t want to hear his ***** rap again. So don’t get any ideas.
@Zeta your half right, he did sell the clothing line, and made twice as much as the (“he probably has about 30 mill in cash value, granted he’s still rich but again the stans need to get their facts straight and stop staning so much.”) that you put up… SO you the STAN… AND I never said he had 346 mil in the bank, (you cant read either) I said it was his net worth. YOU CAN EASLIY LOOK UP HIS BUSINESS DEALINGS THAT HAVE BEEN LOCKED IN… AND YOU DO THE MATH…SILLY ***** HO, MAN… SMH…
If Bey and Jay do form their own label, what stupid ***** would signed to them. Both of them would eat up the promotion money. hello?
To all the people that thinks Jay has 400 million dollars sitting a bank….? That is how much he is ESTIMATED to have we all had algebra and geometry in high school. When they calculate all of his business together they estimated that they are worth 400 million dollars. People!
@ Beast
I hear you Slim… I was just trying to bring up a simple point to the simple minded haters that are going to start talking out of their a$$…
To keep it simple and straight forward, once you’ve achieved soo much success = both personally, professionally and financially, there’s other things that you want to do in life… For him, according to his recent interviews (Charlie Rose in particular) the next thing that he’s trying to do is create history…
Think about it, he’s been with the baddest women on the planet, been everywhere – from the most exotic islands to everywhere in between, driven every kind of car, did work with Kofi Annan and the United Nations, had a shoe with his name on it, had lunch and meetings with the wealthiest man on the planet (Bill Gates), has $204 Million Dollars in the bank…
All this since his first album dropped in ‘96 and remember he was sellin’ crack before that…
They can call him Joe Camel all they want but do you think he really cares at this point in time in his life… Would you, if you were in his shoes?
@A True Gem, they would eat the promotion money too,lol…
HE HAD A GREAT YEAR AND DID WELL AT DEF JAM!!!!
i still ridi wit hovie baby
@KEEPIN IT REAL, IF I WAS IN JAY’S SHOES…. SHHH, I DO WHAT 50 CENT BE SAYING… EVERYTIME THEY ASK 50 ABOUT JAY AND WHAT PEOPLE HAVIN ISSUES WITH JAY… 50 SAYS… “I DON’T GOT TIME FOR THESE BUM ***** *****S” SO, S- DOT MOST LIKELY IS LOCK AND LOADED ON HIS NEXT MOVE… JAY GOT A SONG WITH EMINEM ON “KING MATHERS” AND WATCH PEOPLE GONNA BE LIKE… DAMN JAY STILL GOT IT…
Zeta and True Gem thank you for clearing up the estimated “worth” term for these dumb ***** stans obviously they are uneducated ghetto trash that don’t know the meaning of anything that has to do with money or economic just cause forbes says a person is “worth” 250,350,or 500 million “DOES NOT” mean thats what they have in the bank, simple minded morons.
Just cause he sold his wack ***** label name for 204 mil in cash does not mean he walked away with that amount “everyone” has to pay taxes which means that number dropped more than half and some to the people that helped make the deal .its so funny to hear people with barely a GED praise someone over fictious numbers they have engrained in their heads.get a life stans.good thing def jam told him to kick rocks,he wasn’t doing ***** there anyways.
OK THIS IS JUST @HOLLA AND WOW! CAN YOU PLEASE READ WHAT I WROTE, BECAUSE…. WAIT BETTER YET, LET ME EXPLAIN TO YOU IN THE MOST SIMPLIEST TERMS POSSIBLE… OK, I… KNOW… THAT… NET… WORTH… IS… A.. ESTIMATED… NUMBER… I… NEVER… SAID… THAT… THIS… MAN… HAD… 360 MILL… IN.. THE… BANK. I… SAID… FORBES… ESTIMATED… HIS… NET… WORTH… NOW… STFU… AND JUST TO BE DISRESPECTFUL SINCE YOU CHOOSE NOT TO READ WHAT I WROTE… AND YOU WANT TO CALL PEOPLE NAMES, YOUR *****ED MOTHER IS GHETTO TRASH… SO, I GUESS SINCE THATS WHO YOU LOOKED UP TOO YOU CARRYING ON THE TRADITION…
i hardly can see he is singing.
@wow1 and holla…
I don’t usually do the back and forth thing, but ya’ll can suck my mother f*cking ***** you f*cking clowns…
First of all I graduated college from one of the top schools in the country and I work at a Forbes 100 Firm… And currently do corporate tax work and have done so for over 6 years…
Look, I don’t care how much money he made because it’s not putting any money in my pocket and it’s not affecting me in any shape or form…
My basic point was that he sold Rocawear for a lot of money… Basically more money than everyone on here will make in there life time realistically and he deserves the praise because it’s an amazing accomplishment especially considering his background…
And it’s not a fictious number you dumb a$$, it was in all the headlines and not hard to miss the fact that he sold his clothing line for $204 Million which in turn actually banked him $82 Million…
I happen to pay attention to the headlines because I’m a Jay-Z fan (*not stan) and I worked at Sean John for a minute and pay attention to the big business happenings in and out of fashion…
“told him to kick rocks”… You’re corny go somewhere with that bull$%it
OMG he was just hired for promotional purposes only…why do people seriously think this man was the “President” of Def Jam?
It was all hype and you know Lyor Cohen probably put him onto the position anyways. Jay has pretty much served his purpose and now its time for him to move on…
Jay is a actor . The ***** deserves a oscar . He is not on level of the wall street boys. *****ing 28 year olds taking gome 900 million dollar hedgefund paychecks and yall simple simons are talking about a dude whos worth lesst than 50mil liquid. ( his net worth value is questionable as well) . You ghetto low rate losers . And yall prob think bill gates is the richest man in the world . Dumb *****es . I hate dumb ***** black people. Its sad how little yall understand. to think that a rapper would be worth half a million dollars .Yeah Ok what ever.
Who cares about him or her (Beyaki) anyway? Both are rich as hell but highly ignorant….Have you guys heard either one of them talk? Just because he has millions doesn’t make him a success….***** how many (niccas) do u know that have millions and are so ignorant that they end up *****ed up?
Jay is an actor . The ***** deserves a oscar . He is not on level of the wall street boys. *****ing 28 year olds taking home 900 million dollar hedgefund paychecks and yall simple simons are talking about a dude whos worth lesst than 50mil liquid. ( his net worth value is questionable as well) . You ghetto low rate losers . And yall prob think bill gates is the richest man in the world . Dumb *****es . I hate dumb ***** black people. Its sad how little yall understand. to think that a rapper would be worth half a billion dollars .Yeah Ok what ever.
Oh yeah, to keep it technical it was $82 Million *before taxes…
@Well Well Well – What’s your point?
wow..I knew this was going to happen..I wonder what caused him to not extend his contract on Def Jam?? *sigh* I missed the days when Lyor Cohen and Kevin Liles ran the label
Lets not rush to judgement here. I’m sure LL’s releases will get more promotion now. I’m sure of it. Yeah.
He is professional. There are lots of his fans on
http://www.Richcupids.com
club for professional athletes, moive stars and millionaires talking about him recently?BTW, guys, lots of sexy girls and models turn up there. lol
damn, this site has to have the biggest bunch of haters haters I’ve ever seen…Not just haters but dumb haters…Half of you *****s aint even hip hop fans…Before Jay became DJ president none of you *****s gave a ***** about Def Jam…Now you sucka ***** *****s are all so concerned. Anybody who thinks LL will get more promo now is a *****ing retard. Its over for that *****. the same for Redman, Meth, LL and all the other dinosaurs who can’t find the exit…
I guess Jayz is the reason Wu tang, Fat joe, C*****idy, Swizz Beats, Busta Rhymes,Chamilionaire,Paul Wall, Trina, Remy Ma,Will.I.AM, Chingy and the entire G-Unit flopped as well…You *****s are dumb as dog *****…Promotion aint got ***** to do with it.
Can one of you sucka ***** *****s saying how horrible Jay was a president please name a President of a label who’s doing a good job? Please name one. Every label is laying off the hip hop departments. I guess that’s Jay’s fault too. You dumb *****s.
@ QG&#@
The labol that has kerri unnerwood on it an how bout that labol that has hanna montana an high skool musikol part 2. you jest *****ed off that *****ody is byin that niggra rap. the konsumors has wised up an figgored out that kuntry an holsums pop musik is the way to go you dumb niggra.
Kanye West sold more than Kerri Underwood and High School musical you dumb cracker. Take your face outta of your sisters lap and go check billboard.
he saved def jam from bankruptcy.when lyor cohen left def jam ,he left def jam in shambles.in debt and with artists jumping ship.jay came in and had to rebuild it from the ground up.with no previous experience .and he made def jam the best performing label in music for three years in a row.it doesnt matter if rappers like ghostface and red man flopped cos they were never gonna sell any way and will never sell records again.now that he has left i wonder who they would blame.
he put up with hate ,envy,disses and spitefull mcs when all he was doing was his job.i dont blame him for moving on.
redman had better go platnum on his next project.
Boll*****, high skool musikol came in secund to that dawltry feller as bestsellin cd of the yeer, chek your faks niggra.
Wyclef flopped. Guess thats Jiggas fault too.
??? Is this even about Jay anymore?
He is sooo cute. I am his big fan. It seems he is single now. I saw his profile on millionaire & celeb dating site WealthyRomance.com last week.
Of korse it niggras fawlt, how many korporate presidints of moltimillyon dollar ferms spind mor time rekordin rap cds that *****odee is byin insteda of runnin the kompiny an deelin with the bottum line. let this be a lessin to you yung niggras surv no m*****a but yor own ambishuns, in jigga niggra kase his ambishun wuz steel to be a damn rappa insted of a runnin the kompanee he wuz hierd to do.
wut ppl dont understand is all the promotion from hov’s last 2 albums werent from def jam but were from sponsorhips from different companies. with hov gone, the rappers STILL wont get any promotion cuz LA Reid controls everything and is the ULTIMATE DECISION MAKER. he wants an R n B label, rihanna, neyo, and the dream are his sole priorities
That meens you *****pierin rappas gotta go bak to basiks an start your own labol an werk out a distrabewshun deel with itoons or zoon or sumbody an kut out the middle man which is the stoodeeo, thats whut me an sum frinds are gonna do when we start our kkk rap groop kalled HANG EM HIGH, heh, heh Yall look out for our ferst seengol tytold WATCH EM DANGLE, heh, heh
NOW GHOSTFACE,METHOD MAN AND LL WILL GO TRIPLE PLATINUM EACH!!(SARCASIM)
If a Camel can run a record label at least I have hope of making some major paper on my own. Kracka, do you guys have a studeo out in the *****ry for peple tryiin to get a rekord deel?
@WELL WELL WELL
GO TROLLING SOMEWHERE ELSE.28 YEAR OLDS MAKING 900 MILLION DOLLARS.WHAT ARE THERE NAMES?WHAT HEDGEFUNDS?DO YOU KNOW WHAT A HEDGEFUND IS?DID YOU MEAN 9 MILLION OR 90 THOUSAND?HOW MUCH DO YOU MAKE?I BET NOT MORE THAN 30,000 A YEAR.
@QG&#@ & VB – Good posts
@QG&#@… I agree with you when you said:
“damn, this site has to have the biggest bunch of haters haters I’ve ever seen…Not just haters but dumb haters…”
I’ve never seen hate like this before in my life… Damn, I mean even when there are topics that Bossip Posts that I think and say to myself “Naw, there’s no way anybody is gonna have something bad to say about this topic”… NOPE, these mother f*ckers let me down and never cease to amaze me… Case and point – The Kanye West Mother’s Death Post (her calling Kanye “Dawg”) and even this recent post about Raz-B being molested by Chris Stokes… Did you see what some of these jokers were saying… Whew!!!
But since Jay-Z is the main topic in this post I’ll talk about the hate that they displayed on the Post about when him and Beyonce were in Paris… Shawty, some of these folks are sooo unsophisticated if I went to their town and asked them to recommend a “nice” seafood restaurant the first thing that would come out of their mouth (and with the quickness) would be “Long John Silver”…
They were talking about Beyonce’s dress and focusing on the fact that the shoes were a different color from the dress, but you could clearly see that the shoes matched her belt and the dress was some “high fashion” sh%t, not that tacky Tina Knowles bull$%it a$$ House of Dereon nonesense…
Then they were talking about Jay-Z, damn when the ni@@a be wearing jeans and sneakers they say “there he goes again with the young boy look, why don’t he dress his age?”, but when he does dapper it up they still got something bad to say, talking about he’s dressing like an ole’ white man… Whew!!! These haters kill me…
@supreme being,
Thanks, I was thinking the same thing when “Well, Well, Well” was talking about Hedge Funds…
I interviewed with one of the big Investment Banks a year and a half ago – they flew me to New York and everything… The numbers that they were talking about salary wise was nothing like slim was talking about…
i honestly think that alot of people on here R from another planet..Jay z is 2 blame 4 LL’s new and improved cornyness?…yeah right..LL would have went double plastic regardless what Jay z did..red & meth 2…as much as i luv these cats their time is up….bottom line….Jay z can only do so much…look at all of these artists record sales before Jay took over….fo real fo real the music B.I. will never B the same again do 2 the fact that we have bootleggers and downloads…advertisers and promoters R only going 2 put money into people who can make them money…Jay z is that dude and they know this and that’s why so many big name companies back him…i think people fail 2 realize how powerful that man is…he had this plan when he first did RESONABLE DOUBT…he’s a smart person…people blame that man 4 everything…Def Jam is a sinking ship with out him….Jay z’s gonna B gone and these artists still R not going 2 sell….BLESS UP JAY Z..U have HATAS but U also have CRAZY FANS…we R PROUD OF U BROTHA!!!!…BIG YURSELF WAY UP!!!!!!…by the way
kingdom come and american gangster were promoted by sponsorships from OTHER COMPANIES OUTSIDE OF DEF JAM.
I think when you think of terms of somebody being president of a company their job is to get other people tp perform well. It is their job to generate capital for the company. Yes, I like Jay Z as an artis and you have to respect him as a business man. In addition, he was given the position to attract other artis in my opinion. One must understand that when you are the head of any company you are going to have employees that are unhappy. Its not hard to put yourself in that situation and say how many times were you upset with your boss for not given you more money, more leave, extra lunch time??? Its the same thing just on a bigger scale. Please understand that when you had Lyor and Lyles running the company they had 4 top selling acts (DMX, Ja Rule, Jay Z, and take your pick) other than that there were not that many people that were making money. Def Jam was sold several times because of financial trouble in which the same people they felt were great executives before LA Reid arrived.The artis I just mentioned were the reason for the success of Def Jam under Lyor command. Second, the music industry is not the same because the down loading of music. Third, rap music has always been a form of “YOUNG” people expression and that is why you have artis like Soldier Boy and others that are selling music because young people like them. People like LL, Meth, and many others had their run and did not do anything with it. In business you have to diversify to obtain wealth and that is why the smart people do other things. People will argue that Jay did not do this and that and I do not have a clue whether he did or didn’t but I will venture to say that people keep saying this LL shyt and would not go buy that man’s music with my money. *****ody want t listen to that anymore and I am sure LL’s young son do not listen to his music. Lastly, why is it everytime that a black person get a position of power he not allowed to make any mistakes??? If it was a white man its not a problem. Where are the artis that came before LA and Jay??? As far as a networth, its everything you own down to your watch and clothes that they calculate. *****ody sits around with 100 million cash unless you are selling that colombia bam bam!!! hahahahah
Hip hop is dead! But it can be brought back if old cats, including the WU put out a true double disk of real studio *****! The industry is now about a beat and production. What happen to the lyrics? ***** this radio *****. I don’t even have a CD collection in my car, but right here in front of me in my living room I have at least 50 CD’s that could move any club on the east coast right now and a few on the west if you know what I am sayin
Alright, alright… I misspoke on the $204 Million in the bank — Sorry, I made a mistake…
I’m not Dehaven and Jigga don’t owe me a dime and so I don’t care how much money he has in the bank…
My basic point is that he has A LOT of money in the bank… My bad…
Clipse, Wu-Tang, OGC, Boot-Camp Click, Capone-n-Noreaga, Heltah Skeltah, Trick Daddy (www.thug.com), Goodie Mobb, Juvenile (400 Degrezz) ANYbody out there that feels where I am from. My ***** is real and when I feel it I was out there livin it. Thank the lord it is X-Mas and I now have a safe home and can ***** in my spot at 3am and type about it. My days in the street are over, I holla every once in a while but even then some young cat you doesn’t know my history wants to try an prove a point. Soldiers must retire to the next generation and I am not evenn thirty. FYI. I keep an Sk-S and a saw-offed pump in the closet best believe
@Mz. Mag,
“OMG he was just hired for promotional purposes only…why do people seriously think this man was the “President” of Def Jam?”
I thought the same thing too and there is nothing inherently wrong with that. I think we need to stop being so sentimental about these things. Its a business afterall and if Bill Cosby could bring a market with him they would hire him in any capacity.
To me it is not about who the hire, but about the product that is being put out. Hey, this ***** is seliing right now, but not like things were 10 or 15 years ago. How many artist truly go platinum? Back in the nineties going platinum was standard to get a second record produced by your label. Now people look to have one hit off an album and the royalites are bigger off of ring tone sales. I wish I had a solution and I have been in the hustle game for years, can someone spit back an answer with some substance. By the way, I am in Stockton, Ca tonight in a hotel so I am an East Coast knowlege guy but open minded as hell. Shout out Keed Da Sneak as well, Oak-town
Sorry about the typos as well, purp and yak will do it to you!
People swear Jay is a business man, don’t get me wrong he is a hustler but no business man…..He has all kinds of advisors and lawyers to tell him which business deals would be good to make or they hook him up with people. Jay can’t hold his own, this dude is like 38 and still trying to act like a teeny bopper. B is the same way she has people telling her what to do and wise business choices to make. These people are products, nothing more. Money is not everything, I know his pride and ego is hurting because he didn’t win this battle to him he may feel that he failed. He tries to act like he is God, Jahova and other religious references.
If he does start his own label I think it will fail because he is only worried about himself and his daughter Beyonce.
I hate to break it to you guys, but hip hop and rap is dead…In fact, it’s bloated with the fetid pus of mediocrtiy. Lets’ be honest people, since i retired from the rap game, has rap been even remotely entertaining. Has any MC come close to matching my verbal skills with the mic? Nope! You know why, because i was the *****! I was the end all, be all. Jay Z, 2Pac, Biggie, Nas, DMX, The Roots and M&M would be lost without my guidance and influence. I have been offered millions to return to the game (which i brought to forefront along, with a little help from MC Hammer) to hopefully bring rap back to its’ former glory…But i declined, due to my faith in the resurrection and the future of rap in the form of the soon to be legendary Master MC Soulja Boy. Yes, Soulja Boy will usher in a new era of creativity and artistic integrity that has been sorely lacking from the rap game since i abdicated the throne to these artistically bankrupt pretenders like the aforementioned Jay Z, Nas, The Roots, etc. Embrace Soulja Boy my legions of fans, for he is the future of rap. BELIEVE THAT!
Unkle Kracka
Of korse it niggras fawlt, how many korporate presidints of moltimillyon dollar ferms spind mor time rekordin rap cds that *****odee is byin insteda of runnin the kompiny an deelin with the bottum line. let this be a lessin to you yung niggras surv no m*****a but yor own ambishuns, in jigga niggra kase his ambishun wuz steel to be a damn rappa insted of a runnin the kompanee he wuz hierd to do.
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@ Uncle Kracka – what language are you typing in? Is this English? I swear that some people should not be left unattended in front of a computer.
Of course he’s a figurehead…some executive came up with this idea…people aren’t buying records, dotcom culture is soaking up $$$…so make our product more desirable…make it bigger, better…the artist as the President of the company. It’s the ultimate marketing ploy…a good one…as he said, he IS a business, man. lol Trust me, no CEO is foolish enough to risk his livelihood by deferring to some pseudo-intellectual, uneducated rapper.
No..Instead he (said CEO) knows the power of public opinion, the worth of pop culture (no matter how inflated)…
But it’s not really a big deal, his leaving Def Jam, because the dude is likely to endorse (because what he’s doing, essentially, is endorsing these businesses) Sony next.
Now that The Man has gotten what he wanted from Jay and Dame has hopefully mellowed and been tamed from his previously over-inflated ego and ghetto ways him and Jay can build something else that they can OWN themselves. I really don’t think Jay can do it by himself and certainly not with Beyonce. Ain’t nothing wrong with just being a working wifey.
I would say merry christmas but I don’t celebrate no boombooclaat white devil holiday!!
@Bossip We can imagine the facial expressions on LL and every other Def Jam artist who believed Camel was the root of their problems.
As usuall you dumb dumbs don’t look at stuff from the proper perspective. First of all the record business in in shambles, Def Jam has been the biggest selling urban label the last three years and have recieved the most grammy nods, not every artist is gonna be a hit. Why don’t you compare DEF JAM sales to ATLANTIC,WARNER BROS, COLUMBIA, INTERSCOPE (i know Def Jam is a part of Interscope) and see Jay was doing his job. Some of ya’ll just hate seeing people win because your lives are on stuck, Jay did his thing and i would’nt be surprised in Lyor Cohen at Warner does’nt ***** him up or Rick Rubin over at Columbia.
@ reely
Its the oridgenol englesh that wuz kreadid by the fonedik rednek, korse you bein a niggra woodint no this cuz you aint part of the teem. Im on the teem cuz i herd the kall.
@ noobien gal
you dont selabrate krismas. Its that sorta hethenry thats gonna leed you to hell. you betta git your sole rite noobien gal befor jugemint day. Not selabratin krismas is sayin you dont beleeve in jeezus. Gawd dont like hethen savages.
all you camel *****-riders need to wake up and smell reality. hee didn’t do ***** with def jam, so he got fired. but because of who he is, they said he stepped down. all these so-called “facts” about what he accomplished as president, not one of you said anything about him putting another artist on, or helping to promote the artists that were already there. all you talked about was what he did for HIMSELF. so what “good run” did he have? his last 2 albums flopped, his girlfriend is washed up, face it. he’s a *****-up. he had the chance to bring def jam and hip hop into the future, and to once again bring real hip hop back to the east coast, and he *****ed up. he’s always talkin’ about brooklyn, how many talented unsigned mc’s are running around brooklyn right now hustling their music to get that break? he could have put on some real talented brothers, and we wouldn’t have to deal with wack ***** rappers like young joc and soulja boy, who are not real hip hop. so get your heads out of jay-z’s ***** and stop trying to build up this loser as a success.
@ uncle kracka
christmas is a pagan holiday created by the satanic cult known as christianity. december 25 is not jesus’ birthday. nowhere in the bible does it say that it is. so the only heathen savages (that’s how it’s spelled!) are the ones that are celebrating xmas.
i think you need to go back to school, for obvious reasons.
@ anonomos
Heh, heh you jest *****d off cuz vanella ice said niggra rap is dead an solja boy gonna breeng it bak, which thros your theery that solja boy aint a reel rappa, heh, heh
Merry Xmas suckas….LOL
anonymous:
You need professional help. Seriously. You must be going for the hater of the year award. Please name a president of a label who is doing a good job by your standards.
Barry Weiss over at Jive is having a great year. Justin Timberlake, TPain (ringtone money kaching), Chris Brown,Ciara,Avril Lavigne. Not every label is losing money.
Some labels invest a little bit and make a lot out of it and they supoort ALL their artists not just the ones in a sensationalized love triangle with their egomaniac boss. (Ahem Rihanna)
dayg715: what are you talking about? He signed Rihanna and Ne-Yo during his tenure there, and contributed two hits of his own. You need to do some research before typing reckless.
Afternooooooooon.
If it is one job that Jay should keep, it would have to be President of Def Jam Records. He has Def Jam running strong right now as it has been for the majority of his tenure there. Ne-yo, Rihanna, Kanye, Fab, Jay, Jeezy, and Nas all had hot albums drop and moved considerable units as well as newcomers such as Chrissette Michelle, The Dream
that created considerable buzz. There were a few stagnant people, yeah. But I mean, damn, it’s 24 hours in each day. And those that do more *****n and complaining than actually being being relevant, what you gonna do with those? Can’t wait to hear who LL will blame it on this time.
“Yall just betta hope that we gracefully bow out.”
-Jay-Z
@ Anonymous-
Out of all the releases on Def Jam, Jay had 1 one the weakest. (in the court of public opinion. I don’t agree with this at all.) He then fell back. Hard. He helped his other artist to do their 1-2 thing. (See the previous post) Then what did he do. Come back with an album that is….hum, how should I put this…..excellent?
How many people you know can start promoting an album in 6 weeks and blow? He can’t help that his ***** is going to naturally pop.
And ***** rappers, DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE IT IS IN BROOKLYN….PERIOD??? I can’t believe you even mentioned that.
@…QG&#@, THE ONE PRESIDENT THAT IS DOING ONE HELL OF A JOB LIKE HIM OR NOT IS JIMMY IOVINE AT INTERSCOPE… BUT OTHER THAN THAT YOUR RIGHT NUMBERS ARE DOWN IN ALLLL MUSIC… KANYE WEST AND 50 CENT BASICALLY SAVE MUSIC THIS YEAR ALONG WITH JAY WITH KINGDOME COME AND AMERICAN GANGSTA… HELL EVEN KENNY CHESNEY NUMBERS WERE DOWN…
ANONYMOUS, Def jam has successful acts like Kanye,Rhianna, Fall out Boy, Jay-z himself, Mariah and Neyo. Record sales are down for every label. Beyonce is washed up but Giorgio Armani, Loreal, Amex and Samsung all pay her millions to advertise their goods? I guess you think janet is at the peak of her career
im glad hov, now who are all these bums gonna blame when they flop. why is this site a beyonce/ jay-z hater. all you people do is talk *****.i know why because they the ones running the industry that your favorite artist cant. i understand now, hate the ones that are the best.
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who’s selling records at interscope? They just laid off the whole Geffen staff because of poor record sales. Who told u that Jimmy Iovine is doing a good job from…Go ask 50 and Eminem if they think he’s doing a good job. They’ve been complaining about him for over a year.
Oh I get it . Because you don’t understand something its called trolling? Oh .
You people are so lost its really sad. The boys making the real money don’t do rap videos. Lmao. Dumb *****es. This site should be used as market research. Because ya’ll believe any and everything. Again , sean carter is the best *****ing actor in the usa. the ***** deserves an actor .
@gold
I won’t even answer your simple ***** comments of what a hedge fund is . You just go on and READ about other peoples questionable success.
@wow
whats my point you ask.
you too my friend are a worker like Jay Z , and proud of it, I see from the bosting of the fortune 500 status of the company you WORK for. Key words WORK FOR. I don’t have the energy to explain points to delusional *****odies. Who believe mainstream media , Its just fun messing with ya’ll low rate slaves. Dumb*****es.
Sorry and the ***** deserves an oscar
FOR ALL YALL WHO DONT THINK ITS A BUSSINESS WELL IT IS AND J GOT HIS MONEY RIGHT SO HE CAN CARE LESS ABOUT ALL THEM SO CALLED WASH UP RAPPERS LIKE LL AND THE REST OF THEM DUDE MAKING MOVES OUTSIDE OF THE RAP WORLD JUST CHECK OUT HIS STATUS HOW MANY OF THEM CLOWNS IN THE RAP GAME OWN ANYTHING OF VALUE -PUFFY,RUSS,WHO ELSE EVERYBODY TRING 2 GET WERE DUDE AT SO IF NOTHING ELSE RESPECT THE DUDE HUSTLE DUDE DID WHAT ALL THEM R TRING 2 DO GET THERE HUSTLE ON BUT THEY DONT KNOW HOW 2 GO ABOUT IT THE GAME GOT 2 CHANGE BECAUSE STARTING A CLOTHING LINE,A RAP LABLE, AND RAPPING TELL U 50 IS NOT GOING 2 GET IT THE WHITE FOLKS R CLOSEING THE DOORS ON ALL THAT OLD ***** LOOK AROUND WHEN THE LAST TIME A BLACK RAPPER CAME OUT WITH A PRODUCTIVE CLOTHING LINE WHO PUFFY,J,RUSS WHO?SO ITS REALLY TIME FOR DUDE 2 CHANGE HIS GAME HE MADE ALL HE CAN OFF THE RAP GAME BECAUSE AT 1 TIME EVERYBODY WAS ON DUDE BAND WAGON AND NOW EVERYBODY IS STARTING 2 HATE THE DUDE FOR ALL THE WRONG REASONS MAYBE ITS HIS GIRL R MAYBE ITS THE MONEY BUT WHAT EVER IT IS WHEN HE LEVE THE GAME THEN MAYBE THEY CAN MAKE SOME REAL MONEY THEY SELF SO DONT HATE DUDE JUST TRY 2 GET UR PAPER UP LIKE HIM BECAUSE REALLY HE DONT HAVE 2 DO NONE OF THAT BULL ***** HE GOOD 400,500 HONDURED MILLION WHAT SO JUST KEEP DOING WHAT U DO BIG J AND LEVE THE SMALL STUFF FOR PEOPLE LIKE LL CRING ***** MAYBE NOW HE CAN RUN DEF JAM AND TAKE HIS SHIRT OFF AND LICK HIS LIP AT 44 AND GET HIS MONEY UP
I guess Jayz is the reason Wu tang, Fat joe, C*****idy, Swizz Beats, Busta Rhymes,Chamilionaire,Paul Wall, Trina, Remy Ma,Will.I.AM, Chingy and the entire G-Unit flopped as well…You *****s are dumb as dog *****…Promotion aint got ***** to do with it.
VERY strong point…. Hip Hop doesnt sell anymore, shuck and jive rap sells now, except chingy and 50 and will.i.am sold his soul to the devil for the 15 minutes of fame fergie brought him… skills havent mattered since the late 90’s because if they did the game would be run by Wu Tang and the other LYRICISTS… R.I.P Hip Hop…
Thats why the emphasis was on R&B with Jay-z. He didnt want the real lyricists to move in on his supposed top 5 spot. I cannot wait to see the promotion for Ghost and Meth, Redman and even The Roots…Legends in the game who were neglected like a red headed step child by a meglomaniac.
J-Z like every other black entertainer, mogul, or artist is just doing his/her thing. So let him and or them do it. I’m just glad to see that blacks are on top of the music game and will be even happier once they are truly running things instead of the “others” having the real control. So don’t HATE —- CELEBRATE!!!!! It’s going to be a New Year people. Let’s lift up the ones who are doing something creative in their lives and in the lives of others. Grant it, we all have bad days which can sometimes turn into weeks and months and years…….. But instead of spreading more doom and negativity, let US as viewers/readers be more creative and show support to these folks. And yes, even when they fall short and are in compromising situations. Grant it, we may have handled things differently or we may not have. And sure, stupid is stupid but let’s try to do better for 2008. Peace out!
WHO CARES J MOVING ON, SO WHAT. HE DID WHAT HE ALWAYS DO GET HIS PAPER UP AND GET ON WHEN THE PAPER RUNS OUT; SO WHO CARES. IF PEOPLE KEEP LETING HIM DO THAT WELL THEY STUPID NOT HIM ,IT DONT MAKE HIM LOOK BAD HIS MONEY KEEP GETTING BIGER AND BIGER AND PLUS HE HELP WHO HE WONT TO HELP IT ANT LIKE HE DID NOTHING THE LAST TIME I CHECK HE PUT GEEZY,RICK RUSS,NEYO,NAS,THE LIST GOS ON AND LAST TIME I CHECK ALL OF THEM MAKING MONEY SO IT ANT LIKE HE DID NOTHING FOR THE CREW SO ALL YALL JUST STOP DUDE MOVING ON 2 BIGGER THINGS DONT HATE JUST BE HAPPY FOR THE YOUNG BLACK MAN. STOP, THATS WHATS WRONG WITH OUR PEOPLE NOW EVERYTIME 1 OF US GET A LIL SOMETHING WE SIT BACK AND TRY 2 FIND ANY LIL THING 2 BRING 1 ANOTHER DOWN STOP IT J JUST THE 1 WHO GOT THE BRAINS 2 PULL ***** OFF AND GET AWAY WITH IT ITS NOT HIS FAULT PEOPLE JUST GIVE HIM MILLIONS 2 DO NOTHING ALOT OF US SHOULD TRY 2 FIND OUT WHAT THE F HES TELLING PEOPLE BECAUSE HES LOL ALL THE WAY 2 THE BANK.
LMAO some of u posters are str8 foolish…but anyway Hova is still that dude!!!
“I’m not a businessman, I’m a business MAN!!!!!”
@…QG&#@, No what I am saying that interscope as a whole not just hip-hop sold well as a group. Interscope also is responsible for 70 percent of urban music sales… you can check it out for yourself, but you are right alot of people there arent happy with Jimmy, I think next year will be alot different…
@BIG B, YOU SHOULDN’T POST STUFF THAT PEOPLE CAN LOOK UP…. YOUR WRONG, SEAN JOHN..G- UNIT.. PHAT FARM ALL POSTED HIGH QUARTERLY SALES THIS YEAR 07- 08… THE SALES FOR ALL OF THEM RANGE FROM 45 TO 110+ THIS YEAR… JAY-Z SOLD ROCA WEAR, THOUGH HE STILL ON THE CREATIVE BOARD, JAY-Z AND 50 ARE TWO BUSINESS MEN THAT ARE LOOKING BEYOND HIP-HOP AS THEY SHOULD. I THINK ALOT OF PEOPLE WANT JAY JUST TO BE A RAPPER AND THATS IT, (I’M NOT SAYING YOU, BUT ALOT OF THE POSTERS SEEM TO BE HATING ON HIM). JAY-Z HAS TENS OF HUNDREDS OF MILLION DOLLAR DEALS IN DIFFERENT AREAS, 50 WITH THE 400 MILLION DOLLAR WATER DEAL( HAD TO DOUBLE CHECK THIS ONE, HE CASHED OUT 100 MILLION AND LEFT 300MILLION IN THE COMPANY HE STILL OWNS HIS STOCK IN THE COMPANY, ALONG WITH THE MUTLI-MILLION DOLLAR DEAL WITH PONTIAC G6 CARS ETC… AND EVEN SORRY AS PUFF SCORE A (I BELIEVE A VODKA DEAL WORTH 100MIL) RUSSELL STILL DOING EXTREMELY WELL WITH PHAT FARM… LUDACRIS, T.I, YOUNG JOC, JEEZY ALL MAKING MILLIONS WITH REAL ESTATE AND OTHER BUSINESS OPORTUNITIES… I HAVE TO ADMIT ALL THIS I GETTING FROM BLACK ENTERPRISE MAGAZINE, HAS I’M TYPING…
Minus all the the money that was made, the question is, Did he do the job he was hired to do?
but, but, but…Who will LL blame when his next album flops?
There is a BIG DIFFERENCE from “stepping down” to NOT GETTING YOUR CONTRACT RENEWED BECAUSE YOU ARE A MUUUUCH BETTER ARTIST THAN A BOSS
And even as an artist, 600,000 less people have bought his alum since that last Kingdom Come flopp so serves his Camel ***** well.
I miss the old Jay-Z. Before the hyped up relationship and before he believed the hype.
He and beyonce have 1 HELL OF A Spindoctor/PR team……step down my *****. The rumor that his contract will not be renewed has been out there for a YEAR already and the proof is in the pudding. The only one that is successful under his command is HIM!!! Always has been, always will be. It was the same at Rocafella. He won’t even sign someone that he believes has more potential than him. That’s why he didn’t sign Kanye, Dame diddy did.
Hopefully now some of the other artist can get some shine.. I feel Hova was more interested in the shine then making his artist shine so maybe this is for the best. Only time will tell.
Mr. S. Carter will continue to excell and expand. Watch him and you just might learn something!
It is so easy for people to have something awful to say when someone is SUCCESSFUL. The bottom line is Jay-Z, Oprah, and Will Smith are making change beyond what is watched in the TV screen, they impact society. Now, who cares about a position as CEO at DEF Jam when you have the power and influence to change the behavior of the m***** public.
Keep it movin Jigga!!!You are a brillant MAN!
so if he was the problem, LL should have the #1 album of ‘08, right?? Nice run Jigga, take all of your platinum selling artists with you and let’s see what happens to the outdated crybabies!!!
Lilly Allen, What do you mean its about time for some real artist to shine. Hov is a legend. Jay-Z is the man. He doesn’t need Def Jam, he’ll never run out of money. LL is’nt gonna do anything.
It doesn’t matter how much Jaz-Z is worth, his job of CEO of Def Jam was to sign, promote and sell the labels artists–not promote himself.
If Jay was the CEO of Xerox and sales went down, yet his stock options increased–something is wrong!
Stop Hatin people when your on top people want to see you fall, hatin is a poison. He is about to make another business move “stop throwing rocks at the throne”
^^^^^man, please!
Eat a ***** bossip — eat a *****!
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