Roc-A-Fella Documentary I Part 1: Rise Of A Dynasty

Let's try this guru, yeah, yeah, so I stopped my damn news. I put the bomb in my sock so the cops can't locate the valve. I'm not freshly dressed but I have a Colgate smile. Rockefeller Records. There is a difference between teams and dynasties. A team is made up. of individuals coming together for a common goal, but then you have dynasties that are a team or individual that dominates their profession for an extended period of time. A good way to break this down is to compare this to dynasties and sports where you have the bulls. The 90s and the Tom Brady era of the Patriots, both teams were very dominant in their time and both had a star who was Tom Brady and MJ, the rock star was Jay-Z, since we all know what the Patriots had.

Bulls and the Patriots. There were players who were in it to win, now people who were ready to be the center of attention at any moment and then they had young guns, no pun intended, people they were trying to whine at so that one day they could grow up and take the throne. If you are familiar with Rockefeller then you know who fits into those positions and then if you don't you will soon discover the sad thing about dynasties or that unfortunately almost all of them have to come to an end, no king can rule forever.

The good thing is that the legacy of those dynasties will live on forever through the members of that

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and the people who will always have memories of those glory days that rock started because a lot of people left Jay-Z and he couldn't. He got a record deal years later, became one of the biggest stars in the music industry, proving the people who doubted him very, very wrong, two teams passed over Jordan and many teams passed over Brady before going further into the video, although I would just. I would like to thank you for coming to watch this because you could be doing a million other things right now, but instead you are here with me and I thank you that if you like the content, you should comment and subscribe to the channel.

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and I put a lot and when I say a lot I mean a lot of time into research like a crazy amount of time because this is what you wanted, this really It takes a lot of time to do all this research and many of you know I'm in college so doing all this while going to school full time is crazy time consuming and I do it. all on my own, research, editing, recording, etc., so I'm doing my best to give everyone what they want.

People asked me for a jay-z doc, kanye doc beanie doc, etc., and I thought, why not combine them with something they? We are all tied to who Rockefeller is. This will be a three

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one will be about the

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, part two will be about the top and part three will be about the fall. I want to need you guys to show and tell your mom, your childish side, passive girl, girl, brother, cousins, all that about this dog man, like really, really, I know I ask you to like them and all that in every video, but there was one video where I really wanted them to do that.

In this would be this, share it especially. I will say that I will do my best to report the different perspectives of all the people who were there during the time of the events. Sometimes I will report and leave my opinion comment. under your favorite artist or group on The Rock and why your favorite project, your favorite mixtape, what it was like back then, all of that, depending on how well this video does, depends on how fast I'm releasing the second one part for you, and that's the real thing, it also represents where you are from in the comments section below I want to see where you are tuning in and especially if you are in new york it definitely represents where you are from without further ado I give you the rockefeller

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every

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has its beginning and rockefeller is no different the founders of the label were dame dash kareem biggs burke and sean carter aka jay-z both dame and biggs came from harlem in manhattan and jay-z from brooklyn jay in the late 80's and early 90's 90 was an up-and-coming rapper who appeared in Sofie's Hawaiian video and song Jazz O in 1989.

Jazzo was from the same projects as Jay-Z, which many of us already know are Marcy Jazz's projects. He was a friend and mentor of Jay and was there for much of Jay's early career until the aftermath of 2002, which we'll see in the next episode. Jazz and Jay were in a short-lived group in the mid-80s called High Potente. Here is a clip from the song HP Gets Busted. Now we all know I try to stay away from the street stuff and really try to focus on the music if you're a Jay-Z fan or at least familiar with his history or at least familiar with his music from the beginning .

At the midpoint of his career you can find a lot of references to drugs and scamming around the time Jay was in jazz. He had been dabbling in both music and the drug game. He quotes Jazz as saying that, truth be told, we both dabbled in and out when bro, talk about spending '88 money on dead presidents, you know, '88 was the year. I also can't mention Jay-Z's past in the drug game without mentioning Dehaven, who is also from Mercy Projects and in Jay's own words from the December 4th song. out of his black album where Jay said Dehaven introduced him to the drug game.

He and Dehaven would also have a little fight, but we'll talk about that later, now we'll get into Dame Dash and grow up, Dame went. No less than a hustler at a young age, he swept barbershop floors and sold newspapers to buy sneakers and shirts as a teenager, he was a young guy and even had more money than some adults. A lady would be a troublemaker. getting expelled from many schools and even at one of those schools you got expelled for parking in the principal's parking lot like you want to talk about a savage like that its crazy but im building this image because dane's background and how he is will play a important role in future episodes, but Damon Biggs would run around Harlem together and throw these parties, but Dame would eventually leave Harlem for a while to enter the music industry when Dame left, she ended up managing Hip. -hop groups like the future sound and then the original flavor, who he eventually signed with dj clark kent and told dame he had a guy he wanted her to meet because he was also on the street and that guy ended up being Jay-z Jay.

He would appear on two songs on Original Flavors' second album, including their single. I can open? Do you want to fly through the program? Forbidden shine, don't do what you're going to do next. The lady had been great for a couple of years before they decided to team up for Jay's first single ever. Damn, I got a 16,000 loan from Biggs and put all that into producing the music. video for the song at the time, Jay had a deal with Payday Records, who released the single in my life on the B-side of the record, which was a song I can get with that, although Jay would manage to get out of this deal with Payday Records .

When Jay split from Payday he ended up getting some money and renting a small office space in downtown New York. jay is quoted as saying that i like being away from everyone right now because i can get all my stuff together and then i can move uptown with all those. Other guys, when everything is going well, there is no point in spending a lot of money on office space and moving employees around if your product isn't making money yet, that's a mistake executives make. I used my money to get this label off the ground and that was the right decision, in Biggs' own words, once a couple of doors were closed and some things couldn't be signed, they brought him in as a partner and Biggs made them an offer that both Give me how Jay couldn't refuse and Rocke

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She was named after the world's first billionaire, John D. Rockefeller, and also referenced a famous Brooklyn drug dealer named Rockefeller. Jay-Z began recording his debut album in 1994 and did not finish it until early 1996 during the making of the album he worked on. producers like ski beats who was a member of the group original flavor the legendary dj premiere clark kent jazz or irv gotti and more jay originally wanted to name the album heir to the throne after jonathan mannion the man who was the album's photographer and Jay-Z's albums Leading up to the black album, I think in an interview, Manion said that originally the album was called Heir to the Throne, so he had a whole creative set for that, but then a couple days later, Jay said no, we changed.

I'll let people decide if I'm the heir, so we'll call it reasonable doubt. If I

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to the occasion, the people will make me king. Now there's a whole story behind the album cover. and the actual album, so I'm going to try to give you a little bit of both in a short period of time because, trust me, we'll have a lot to talk about, man, we've got like five more albums to discuss like before this one. The episode is over so yeah, but the story behind the album cover is that a Rockefeller PR person named Adrian Vargas, who ended up being the art director on the project, Vargas and Maniam were familiar with Jay because I was into Hawaiian Jazz Sophie and others.

Appearances he had in people's tapes. The first single from the album was Dead Presidents and came out in February 1996. The original version featured Foxy Brown when the album was released. There was a different version which was Dead Presidents 2. This version has the same support. track and chorus but different lyrics and does not include foxy. I should also mention that ski beats made this beat and the beat along with the song is right up there with one of the best beats and best songs in rap history in an interview with Vargas. He said that the first thing to be released from the album was dead presidents, so Jade gives me the cover of the single, which is a blurry, dark photo that shows him in his white Lexus, but you can't see the Lexus because they are taken through window. on a cell phone that photo I don't remember who took it but jay provided me with the image the person who took the image was actually the man who was the director of the deaf president's ski beats video in an interview he gave more background behind the track i was at this dj event like one of those how can i be down in florida events naza's illmatic had just come out and i was just listening to the world like yours i fell in love with pianos once i felt that vibe just i was sure of anything with a piano that made me feel that way.

As soon as I heard the piano, I was going to fall in love. I was just digging and digging and discovered that Lonnie Liston Smith joined a peace garden and I thought that was cool. and then i just added that nod in there just to see if it would work because i liked naza's voice. I gave it to Jay and it fit perfectly into the scheme of his album and what he was talking about. Nas was originally invited to re-finish Jay-Z's chorus and appear in the track's music video, but he declined. see these actions as the basis of jay-z versus nas, but according to memphis gloomy, this is not the case, blick believes that he is the cause of the infamous beef but we will get into that in the next episode the second single is not not released on The following month Vargas remembers that when that single came out it was huge in the clubs that song also appeared on the Nutty Professor soundtrack and featured Foxy Brown and had uncredited vocals from Jazz Oh, who actually produced the song.

The last song I want to talk about beyond any reasonable doubt is Brooklyn's Best, which features Biggie Smalls. Many of you already know that Jay admired Biggie extremely and there is a whole story about this song. Dame and DJ Clark Kent have production credits on the song. In an interview with Billboard about the song, Big said that this is something we've been dying to do. Dame actually gave Clark Kent the sample of that song. Biggie and Jay sat on the board, the engineer came over and dropped a notepad and pen right between them. Jay looks at him and then pushed him towards Big Big, looks at him and pushes him back, that was the moment they realized that neither of them.

I wrote the lyrics on a piece of paper, here's a clip of Jay talking about how he doesn't write, how you write these things that come, so how do you write things? rhymes like writing them because I didn't write any of my full albums, I actually wrote the second verse of can I live in the studio? and everything else was done like it was done straight from memory, like when it was when it was growing up, you know he didn't have, he ran so much that I didn't really have time to sit down and just write and write andwriting, you know, the young man I wrote to all the time, he used to be at the table just writing. and fight and write, but then when I started, you know, the teenage years started running, you know, I had to memorize things in a paper bag in my pocket and then, you know, get home to transfer to the big book, You know what I mean after a while.

You know, doing so much of that is just an exercise in memorizing these lines. Remember why both lies came to mind while I was on the street. You know what I'm saying, and after a while I just got into the habit of just. Memorize it until you get to the studio and just leave it so you don't even write these options down. No not at all. Jay actually came in and did the whole thing in five minutes. He broke down the song and left every part of it big. a different guy fromBeat at the time Biggie was really trying to pick up the beat and when he left he said when I give you a song to rhyme to for my album, I'll make sure it's a regular beat so you can do a straight 16.

Now all this. breakdown another interesting thing that was said about the song was said by combat jack because of the way rp combat jack said when i contacted bad boy to get clearance from biggs, puff couldn't give us the full single, right, big had been on almost all discs and edges. He didn't want it to be overexposed. I remember being on the phone one more time begging Puff to leave Big Rock on a single in the video and Puff asking me what the hell a Jay-Z is. I can't get Clive Davis declared great. on an unknown rapper's album, to his credit, puff allowed the rock to keep the song on the album, one quick thing before we move on is that irv gotti revealed that the song the best of brooklyn started the brief feud with jay and tupac tupac diss jay on some tracks, but jay never got a chance to respond because Park would die in September 1996.

The album Risen Without Though was eventually released independently in late June 1996 through a distribution deal with Priority Records. The album was delayed twice due to recording. delays, an April release was initially proposed and then on June 14, the album peaked at number 26 on the US Billboard 200 charts and ran for 18 weeks. The album sold 43,000 copies in its first week and 420,000 copies in its first year. release, although it wasn't a huge hit from the start, the album definitely garnered its fair share of praise, it definitely ended up proving a lot of doubters wrong because before this, record labels thought that jay-z wasn't really like that.

Well and broadcast, things weren't so good especially with the priority records because Dame Jay and Biggs signed to them and thought they would get 80 and the label would get 20, they were actually fooled and instead shared 80 from just Jay. The -z piece, which is a very, very small number, is definitely not the deal they were hoping for, so instead of making three or four million dollars from the album, according to Biggs, they probably made between thirty and forty thousand dollars . The year is now 1997 and Jay is feeling the buzz from his debut album, as I said before, success didn't quite come at first but continued to grow gradually as time went by in the spring of 1997, dev jam would buy a stake 50% in Rockefeller, although unfortunately in March.

In 1997, Biggie Smalls was murdered in Los Angeles. This, along with Tupac's death almost a year earlier, really sent shock waves around the world. This made a lot of people suffer and especially Jay-Z who really looked up to her and according to Biggie's mother she said that jay was always there for the big ones here is a clip of jay-z talking about the big ones I was on the house I actually just talked to him on the phone, you know, I was talking to him on the phone and he didn't, you know? so happy he was ecstatic as I was because I was supposed to go out there, probably in two days I said I was going to go that day, but I was moving and I just got back from somewhere and I wanted to be out there so it was like uh oh yeah, playboy, you know, like just yelling into the phone, music in the background, he was like groggy and tired, like talking on the phone, like me.

I'll be there tomorrow the next day, you know? I mean, oh, you're missing this, you know, he's so happy and then I hung up the phone and the phone rang again like maybe half an hour after that, but look, because I talked to him like I just talked to him, he was like no, you know I dismissed it right away, like you knew you were bothering me, he was like you know something happened, I'm telling you on the side, you know, man, God, he had called me, so I was like , no, go, make sure you go look.

You know, I mean, I think that's the room that I just finished talking in, so you know, and then, Drock had called right after that, a little bit later, that's when I thought, you know, I was receiving many calls. like you knew all night, so that's when he really was like he was sitting down. I was still in shock like no, I just can't be in October. Jay would release the first single from his, who was always my son's, second album, Sean This. The song was an interesting choice for a single to say as much or at least a song in the album period, everything from the lyrics and sound of the song indicated Jay-Z's shift from his gangster rap style to a more conventional style that was requested by his new partners. on devgen it was basically what people perceived as a change of their sound to sell to the masses, the song was not well received by critics and many fans did receive regular airplay on mtv, which in the 90s was a big problem in the music industry, unlike today in the interview with dj who kid french montana said that jay-z told him that dropping the sun was the worst mistake of his career and he felt that it prevented him from releasing an undisputed classic early November 1997, Jay would release his second album. on my life volume 1 along with christian's album which was released the same day christian was the first r b act on rockefeller and the people at rockefeller thought an r b act would broaden their reach.

I'm not going to lie, I felt like this group never really got its due and that song was full of smoke, fire, I don't care what anyone says, but basically, long story short, the group was an rb group, but Kenny Ski, one of the group members, believed that was one of the main reasons why they didn't really do it. Blowing up is because Rockefeller didn't know how to promote them properly, they were promoting them in the same avenues as hip-hop, which obviously didn't work. I'll talk more about Christian a little later, although I said earlier that Jay-Z released. on Volume One of My Life in early November 1997 and peaked at number three on the US Billboard 200 chart, selling 138,000 copies in its first week.

This was a significant increase in sales after his debut album and what marked the last time Jay did not. hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 charts, a couple of songs I want to talk about from the album Our Streets Are Watching and Where I'm From in the song Streets Are Watching is interesting because it also appears to be the title song from the soundtrack from the 1998 movie, Street Is Watching, which was a movie with many of Jay's unreleased music videos all tied into a plot, more on this movie in just a minute, the producer of the song, which is Ski Beats, once again gives a little insight behind the track in an interview he said that Jay didn't come up with the hook so he took the Sleepers type sample and did it there and said this is cool but I don't know what type of hook add to it.

That movie was good, but it was Jay's idea to use it. He is definitely a movie buff. Anything that had that energy of what he was representing, however, the musician behind the sample would not approve of without the promise of censorship as a result. The official versions of the song are censored even in the explicit versions. The funny thing is that Ski Beats said he never realized it. Another interesting thing about this song is that it was the first song made for the album on Biggie's last song. heard according to jay-z, biggie made jay play for him over 30 times and finally jay told biggie to keep her.

The song where I'm from has a story and one of the producers of the song, I mean, played it raw. diddy in a rough form where there were no side effects or additional percussion and diddy passed away, however another producer credited for the track, d-dot, played for jay and his anar at the time jay heard the heavily sampled rough cut I was immediately inspired and started recording four lines at a time. D-Dot in the interview was kind of an experience saying that he came to the studio so we could do the vocals together. He was very cool, smooth and relaxed.

He'd listen to the track and walk back and forth in the studio, I watched Jay-z walk back and forth from the booth to the control room, he never once picked up a pen to write lyrics, he memorized four lines at a time. The cockpit deletes the lyrics and then returns to the control room to hear it before you know it. The album was done. 1998 will be a big year for rock, especially with the release of The Streets. You are watching the film which was released in May 1998, the soundtrack was also released on the same day the album did well commercially, peaking at number three on the top r b hip-hop albums chart and a month before that the soundtrack and the movie were released, I think the single It's all right with j and memphis bleep was released.

It's a good time in history to delve into who Memphis Bleak is. Memphis Bleak was also part of the Marcy projects and would be one of the first artists to sign with Rockefeller. In an interview with DJ, Vlad Blake said that he always positioned Jay-Z as Jay, a predetermined older brother figure in his life, would visit him and tell him to get off the street. When Blick was in high school, he showed Jay that he could rap by freestyling for him, which earned him respect. Jay took him to a studio where he was recording Reasonable Doubt and handed him a piece of paper with lyrics from a song called Coming of Age according to Grim.

Over the next two hours he returned to Jay's apartment and said he remembered the rhymes. Jay's account of this is a little different. because he said he told Bleak that he was making an album and that Bleak had to learn the song in 24 hours, if he didn't learn it then he wouldn't be on it. Blink took the paper and would review it. Jay said. that he had written the verse in chicken handwriting, which basically means it was difficult to read. He said Blick came to him the next day and passed it all off as if he had been doing it all his life.

The track took the form of a dialogue between a street hustler played by Jay and a person looking to get into the drug game played by Bleak. Jay teaches Bleak how to sell drugs, although the song was just a beginning for Bleak, it would unfortunately mark the tone for The Bleach Race, which will discuss more about that later in the series, this song would also see two Christian songs that were pimped, This Love and Your Love, even though it was a good look for them and attracted them. a little more attention. It seemed like the more the days went by, the more the group became an afterthought.

Jay-Z was really starting to break out and become a star, so a lot of attention was being put on him at the time when the group felt like they were being loyal. promoting rockaway, which we'll talk about in a moment, and always spoke very positively about rock, the group soon became impatient and resentful. Jay was becoming a big star and making videos but they weren't in any of them and they had a lot of songs but they didn't sing on the hooks. Kenny Ski would soon leave Rockefeller Records while Allen remained with the label in hopes of releasing a solo album.

In August 1998 Jay would release the first single from his third album which was Can I Get a Rule with Mill and Ja, by the way, Mill's story will be in part two if you're wondering if the song would reach #19 on Billboard Highway on the list and was a huge hit, it would also appear on the hit. Movie Rush Hour with Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan, who also promoted the song at the time, this was one of Jay's biggest hits, but the next single Jay would release would absolutely change his career forever. The next single was Hard knock Life Ghetto Anthem, which was released.

In October of that year, this is cited as the moment when Jay officially became a superstar. He had finally put all the pieces of the puzzle together by the time of its release. This song was Jay-Z's most commercially successful single. The song would peak at number 15 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and was also the first single to achieve significant success outside of the United States, charting within the top 10 of charts in several countries, including Canada, Germany, and the United Kingdom. . The songIt was also nominated for Best Rap Solo Performance at the An interesting fact about the song is that, in order to delete Annie's sample, Jay wrote a letter to the copyright holders of the song and told them that he had seen the musical on Broadway as a child and wrote a contest-winning essay in school, as we all know now, that sample was erased and the rest is history in September of that year volume 2 of Hard Knock Life will be released and it would be Jay's first album to reach number one and since then it has not been number one again. for the rest of the series as long as i don't say it and i was jay's number one, believe me, he was number one with the album sold 350 000 copies in this first week, which topped his last album, here is a video of jay talking about albums , I never wanted to just be making albums every year, you know, I mean, that wasn't my intention, my intention was to come here so that we can have a place, you know, for me and my people, you know, I mean it. we can work and we can undertake and legit manna, you know, I mean, it was having Rockefeller, it wasn't for me to be, you know, Jay-z, an artist, that's why I said the first hour was supposed to be the first and the last.

I know, I mean, that was already that, that was the plan right there, you know, but then you know, I don't know, we didn't know too much about this whole music thing, you went in there and you saw the different things that happened and other things. That goes on, you can never plan anything like that in the music business. Another song I want to talk about from this album is Money Cash and, um, let's just say what you think, okay for this video, Money Cash Dots, okay, the funny thing about the song is that The producer of this song, Swedish Beats, said the song started as a joke and he was sliding his hand across the keyboard it was originally intended for. buster rhymes and buster said he was crazy but not so crazy about this beat that it was crazy. swizz played the beat for other rappers but when he played jay's b he was very open to it and also to all the improvisations that he hears. dmx were actually done live.

Fun fact, swizz didn't start sampling them until later, a couple of months after come to harnack life dj Clue released his debut studio album The Professional. This was a big deal because Clue was well known for his mixtapes on the streets and there were a lot of dita at the time doing their thing on the streets, the track to release this album was a big deal because this took him from the streets to the mainstream, took things to the next level, including, I mean, tracks to draw people in. like you have to imagine all the people that track broke on their tape, that's what you know, now he successfully recorded all that, that's all you know, you have videos and stuff and you know the things, you know he broke with almost every major artist right now, you know he was the first. heard on the track tape, you know, I'm saying he was just as important to hip-hop and as important to everything that was going on in New York as if you could get a deal on a cool table, you kill a track tape, did you know?

I mean, you're on your way to becoming like cannabis, what was your first time when you dropped those 150 balls there, I was in clujay, you know, camron and dmx, the dog attacked me I was on the court, it was a whole, in Was it really? a freestyle for the track, that's how it started, you know, I mean, and it actually turned out to be, you know, the record that really catapulted me into being a superstar, you know, a little backstory about the track is that it was born in Queens, New York. He built his reputation with street mixtapes and quickly became one of New York's top DJs who had some of the latest tracks from the biggest rappers at the time.

The album mainly featured exclusive tracks that featured some of New York's top artists such as nas mob deep. dmx big pun jay-z rayquan job rule and the list goes on, the album peaked at number 26 on the Billboard 200 charts and would achieve gold status the month after its release. 1999 will be the last year I cover in this chapter. Another big year for Rockefeller and it's actually the year they started Rockaware, the clothing brand. I play a clip of Jay talking about the beginning of the brand he started. I would make records and talk about various similar clothing brands. you know, on the record and then I started noticing that people would come to the shows wearing the clothes and stuff like that and I know I was selling a lot of clothes for these companies, you know I would go to them like we should come to a deal, I think I'm affecting your business a little bit, you know, I'm saying maybe you should work with me, you know, we could work together through some ads and things like that, and they were like they rejected me like I did.

I don't think they understood um you know the amount of um clothes I was moving for them you know what I'm saying and I wasn't just doing it I was doing it they're paying for the photo but at the same time it was cheap and you know it wasn't compensating me at all. , so I thought maybe I could start my own thing, start my own clothing line, make it the perfect fit, loose enough for everyone and the right style and just and once that idea started, I was out, man, I was in. marches musically, although the first album Rockefeller released that year was Memphis Bleak's debut album on the album's first single.

Memphis Bleak is was released in June of that year. he said that the first single was actually meant to be what you think of it but he said that that sample wasn't removed in time to release it, he said that his team was struggling to create a single called swizz beats and they created this track once They put jade on the track, what did you think? The sample was then deleted. The coming-of-age album would be released in August 1999 and would peak at number seven on the Billboard Hot 100 charts after releasing this album. he would feel the hype but he would still be in jay's shadow and people perceived him as jay's sidekick, but i mean, debuting in the top 10 with his debut album is still impressive, even though rockefeller was starting to make a name for himself.

They themselves almost came to a screeching halt in early December 1999. A major rap star is arrested. Jay-Z turned himself in tonight and the cop started working on his rap sheet accusing him of stabbing at a fashion party where kimberly richardson Midtown South is located right now Kimberly Horizonta Just a few hours ago the police here in Midtown South arrested Sean Carter, better known as Jay-Z, the rap star voluntarily turned himself in here at the police station this afternoon. Now Carter is being held here in connection with that stabbing. fight that broke out at the kitkat club last night but moments ago carter's lawyer said this in november 1999 when q-tip released his debut album amplified a few days after the album release q-tip would celebrate the release with the party in manhattan At the Kit Kat Club before arriving, Jay-Z held his own party and listening event for his upcoming album Volume 3, The Life and Times of Sean Carter, there was a big problem, although this upcoming Jay-Z album was scheduled to go. to be released at the end of December of that year but a month before its release it was already in the hands of smugglers who had already leaked it a month in advance.

This flood a month before its release caused Jade to have a lot of anxiety and did not know Who to Blame Word begins to spread about who supposedly had a part in smuggling and leaking the album, but for some reason Jay kept hearing Rivera's name from Lance and Jay supposedly fainted from rage. and lance rivera was finally stabbed now there are multiple conspiracies about this gentleman in the stabbing one theory is that jay didn't even stab lance and the other is that the stabbing was never about records but about charlie baltimore because jay was supposedly trying to be with Charlie Baltimore, who actually used to be Biggie's girl before he died and Lance didn't agree.

I'm not here to say which is true and which isn't and all that, but there are multiple sides to every story, if you want. To hear more about this event, I suggest you watch my video I made on camera and Jay-Z. I'll put the link in the description. JC faced 15 years in prison if he had not pleaded guilty. David Science is a complete deal. That reduced his sentence from 15 years to three years of probation in the midst of all this legal stuff. Jay would release The Life and Times of Sean Carter Volume 3 in late December 1999 and it sold 462,000 copies in its first week of sales. was 30 more than the first week sales of Volume 2 of Jay's previous album, Hard Knock Life, the first single from the album, Do It Again, Put Your Hands Up, released in mid-December 1999.

The song features Emil and Benny Siegel. Benny Siegel's story will be in the next episode. of promise, the two songs I want to talk about in this project are big pimpin and girl's best friend, we'll go with girl's best friend first because the story behind big pimpin is just crazy, girl's best friend was the lead single from the crime comedy by martin lawrence. movie Blue Streak and, according to an inside source, Jay was given half a million dollars for the song by Epic Records, who would produce the film's soundtrack. The song was quite successful and peaked at number 52 on the Billboard High 100.

The actual song I'm going to do. talk is a great pimp and featured ugk which is made up of bumby and pimp c pimp c is one of my favorite rappers of all time just saying but the amount of play he gave with the jewels he dropped was crazy rp pimpsy the tractor was produced by Timberland and the song is considered one of the first songs where southern rap really broke into the mainstream, but let me tell you, the video for that song didn't age well, like I'm telling you, like He's done the damn Dash ever since.

I apologized for that video, like hey, if you're from that era, like you don't like it, you know what I'm talking about, but like me, man, pouring champagne in a girl's mouth and a girl, like your video It was wild, but like I said, yes. you're from that era, you know the video, which is crazy, but the song was one of j's most successful singles at the moment, peaking at number 18 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and spending 20 weeks on the chart. Jay said this about the The song that was my third single took the album to three million kiambo hip-hop.

Joshua was with me in the studio with Timberland. He knew I was a Ugk fan and suggested we put them on the record we called Bun and then Pimp C was like those horns, that's too fruity, he was worried about alienating his audience when the pimp first sent out his verse, no I understood it, but then the genius of his cadence hit me at that moment, MTV's making of the video was really impacting record sales and I had to have that, I had hype williams and we had all the legendary eviction videos. I doubled at the right time and it took off by the way, the big paying video, the budget was around two million dollars, the video was filmed in both Trinidad and Miami.

Jay-Z and Bun B ended up taking the flight to Trinidad and Tobago, but PMC refused to leave Houston to film the video. Hype Williams, who was the director of the video, kept trying to convince Pemse to come, but he refused. This forced jay and the rockefeller records. The team went to Trinidad with the big budget video for a massive single that had no pimp c seconds as a man, but pmc wanted to shoot the video on his terms, so they shot it in Miami and it turned out to be the iconic Pipsy . He probably had one of the baddest video victims of that era which was Gloria Valez and she showed up in a shirtless mink, she had that clean Mercedes and although she deliberately gave Jay some bars, she has one of the best and most impactful verses of the song PMC wanted to rap about the most country stuff like SIP and Lluvia, how all their cars were leather and wood and all that and more.

Jay even had to add a final verse to the song because he felt people thought that. It would have been ugly to perform and Pemc's short verse is also the reason Buns' verse is longer. This will conclude today's episode. I've been working on the second part, but how quickly you get it depends on how much love you see for this. The episode will understand that this really requires a lot of time to do a lot of research and as you all know, like I said before, I'm in college, so doing all of these things while I'm full time in college is crazy. it takes a long time so if you came this far like I really love you from the bottom of my heart you guys are the best.

I'm going to need everyone to really support this man. I wish I could do it. I've talked about albums in more depth, but that would take a long time, and like every video, we have like eight albums to talk about, so it's very difficult to talk about it in depth in a short period of time. So it will be a completely separate video. The first part was a lot about Jay-Z because from the first part on The Rock it was mainly him who fell, but the next part is where I want to talk about Cam Dwell Emil Beanie. propertymlp state all that, so stay tuned.

I'm so excited for this series that I'm really putting my all into this, so I hope you guys support it, especially since everyone likes longer videos in general. What do you think of this documentary? What's your favorite album or favorite songs from any album I talked about in this previous episode? What is your favorite memory from this time? Are you excited for the next episode? Let me know in the comments section below. I love it. Guys, with all my heart, I'm out. Peace.