How Jay Z Finessed Dame Dash for $29m+ (The Roc Story)

My main objective was to take over the entire planet. I made a conscious decision to take over the world. I like to spend all kinds of money. I like the dollar like the euro like the pound like the franc. Pause Dame Dash is the best scammer. He could sell sand in desert water to a fish and convinced Adam 22 to give him $500 for a haircut despite not having a hair on his head, which sounds like a pretty expensive haircut considering I really am a great news that you could have met for free. but Dame Dash was always from the neighborhood Vanessa began her business career when she was young, when she actually had hair as a child, she made money any way she could, from sweeping hair on a barbershop floor to delivering newspapers and apparently being so young with more.

The money that all the adults around him had is what fostered that nasty arrogance that Dame Dash is so famous for having more money than people older than me had, where you know, it made me a little arrogant because then they didn't have nothing that I. I felt like she hadn't done it and I just thought they were living a normal life, so I definitely think she gave me a certain mindset. I mean, just imagine how degrading it would be to have a 14-year-old girl criticize you for being an adult. broke it's just money not for me but you can't do it for me but this time it happened Dame Dash made a name for himself in Harlem as a businessman and hustler throwing parties with his friend Kareem Biggs Burke before moving into music management I met Dame and we said throwing parties all over Harlem, so Game had left Harlem for a second to get into a music game.

Jay-Z was introduced to Dame Dash by his friend DJ Clark Kent, who had signed the group. Dame was driving the so-called original flavor Damon J clicked immediately apparently over a shared love of sneakers with Dame Dash supposedly being pressed by Jay-Z's Air Force One, I guess, wrinkle-free, but before triple keys of each other and began doing business together, they became friends. for a few years with Jay performing a feature on the original flavor song Can I Open Up? Appearing in the music video wearing so much oversized denim that it looked like she took a bath of super glue and just ran through the big and tall section of the Levi's outlet, but after a while they decided to partner up and Dame took to promoting Jay-z's first single ever, which even featured a Gimme - scream on the B-side track, I can't understand that and they started rushing.

The Jays record any way they can, from the trunks of their cars, on street corners or even in barber shops, just trying to get a buzz, barber, you know, because okay, at least I have hair. Gimme, before long, Jay-Z's music was playing. on the streets of New York and had managed to get an early record deal, first landing a one-off deal with payday records for The Song in My Life, which eventually fell apart when Jay felt they weren't doing the promotion They walked out of that deal delicately like a couple of young little punks and once Jay completed his first full LP, there was a reasonable doubt that Dame was able to buy it from the record companies, but unfortunately there was no one to accepted it, so Jay and Dame pulled out their resources along with their friend Biggs and decided to do business together and started their own label.

They wanted a name to match their big money aspirations and decided to call it roc-a-fella records in honor of the world's first billionaire, john d rockefeller, but let's not forget that this was also a clever double entender referencing the traffic past Jay-Z's drug abuse and New York's draconian Rockefeller laws that increase penalties for people caught in the city with drugs; However, for the record, hi

story

says that Rockefeller started out 100% legitimately with leftover money from that payday record deal, so not drug money, contrary to popular belief. I know everyone wants to believe that Jay-Z was like the Jeff Bezos of cocaine, trading loose rocks of cocaine for studio time and signing his first record deal with a swoon.

The demons returned, but unfortunately the lore of the trap is that Rockefeller was a legitimate Enterprise from day one, so the Rockefeller team rented a small office space on John Street in New York and eventually got a new distribution deal with Freeze Records and priority under this agreement. saw an equal division of the cost of the business with the freezing of handling the production and distribution of the records with Rockefeller managing production and retaining royalties with a 70/30 split on sales. This is an incredibly favorable deal considering how badly artists were being cheated in the '90s, keep in mind that these were the early days before you could even blame it on their bad record deal or DJ drama.

Reasonable Doubt was a slow-burn hit for Jay-Z that spent around 18 weeks crawling up the Billboard charts and eventually peaked at number 23 selling 43,000 copies. in its first week and selling 400,000 units over the course of its first year, Jay must have been pleased with all those sales without having to touch a single drug addict and although the relationship with Freeze Records eventually soured after they delayed. By paying Jay-Z, the Rock Boys were able to walk away from the deal as free agents while retaining ownership of Reason Duda Masters, a nice boss position that, frankly, in 1996, Jay Dame and Biggs had attracted the attention of. attention of Def Jam Records, specifically Irv Gotti. famous for founding Murder Inc records, discovering jarl and smelling and of course Lyor Cohen, famous for being the road manager for Run DMC, running Def Jam Records with Russell Simmons and of course never stopping talking about being the road manager from Run DMC and my first job was taking Take DMC to Europe we took DMC on the show Run DMC Beastie Boys LL Cool J Run DMC now No, it's okay, we get it, you're not a culture vulture after being so impressed with the single by Jay-Z, there is no player, Leo placed it. on the movie soundtrack in Nutty Professor, securing J.

I guess a side of Nutty Professor to get attention for this led to negotiations for a new record deal, but they'd already had a taste of that big independent check and seen what so well P Diddy and Suge Knight had screwed themselves running their own record labels. Jay and Dame rejected a traditional agreement. The rock kids opted to negotiate a unique deal with Def Jam, selling Def Jam's parent company, Universal, a portion of Rockefeller for $1.5 million and agreeing to a 50/50 partnership and distribution deal, that part of Rockefeller Records was split evenly between Universal subsidiaries Def Jam and Polydor, which is why Dame Dash famously called Def Jam CEO Kevin Liles a quarter while explaining in the drinks chats , so Def Jam didn't acquire half of Rockefeller Universal, and Def Jam got twenty-four twenty-five percent and Universal had the other 25%, so they only owned a quarter of twenty-five percent and we, okay, oh yeah, we own 50%.

Now, this was supposedly a shrewd deal. negotiated by Dame Dash that would have Def Jam assume responsibility for all production costs of Rockefeller records but would only entitle them to one-third of the royalties. This was a big W that Dame had secured for Jay and the rock guys and hence the rock. would become a giant of big pimps and big ballin shining as brightly as Dame Dash is the big Baldy Head J. The second album in my life aims to have broader and more reasonable doubts, so he recruited P Diddy and his team production of hitmen to produce GD radio hits.

I guess he wanted someone dancing on every song in the videos, but the album was a huge success, peaking at #3 on the Billboard chart and spawning 3 Billboard top 100 singles, and Jay-Z followed up with the volume 2. life, which is where her career really exploded leaving the biggest mark in the '90s since bill clinton spat on the interns dress, the lead single from that album, hard-knock life was truly one of the songs from most important rap to break into mainstream culture since it landed. at number 15 on Billboard and reached the top ten in over ten different countries, the album debuted at number one selling 250,000 copies in its first week and eventually went five times platinum selling over five million copies and remember they had a such a favorable split on Def Jam this The album could have reportedly brought Jay-Z between 15 and 20 million alone, damn, just think about how much jet ski safety equipment he could buy with that and it turned out that the deal with Rockefeller and Def Jam were smarter than anyone could have imagined, according to BIG.

The terms of their deal with Def Jam didn't go into effect until they delivered their second album, by which time most record labels assumed their artists would be cooling off, they thought we'd be in decline due to the lifespan of an artist. at that time it was 2 to 3 albums, so to negotiate we then moved on to the second album, but it turns out we deleted it. The park installed 6 million discs. Saban, when the renegotiation came for Def Jam and Rockefeller, they will show up and let him. They signed a three-year extension worth $30 million and from there they did like Wu-Tang Financial and started trying to diversify rock.

They needed to diversify their bonds. The Rockefeller Empire began to grow into a conglomerate with Dame Jatin Biggs using the Rock Umbrella as a platform to launch other successful products into the market and with that each of the 3 Rockefeller co-founders began to focus on different things. Jay-Z heavily leveraged his personal brand to land big endorsement deals, particularly his S-class deal with Reebok, who also had a deal with 50 Cent around the same time. I know Reebok, come on Jay, you're better than that and now I have to do this to you. What are they really? What are those?

At one point there was even a Kanye West Edit from the Nikken companions, although apparently these didn't come out and for a minute the world was almost deprived of an ugly shoot produced by Kanye West, oh wait, no, they won, so while Jay swore an oath in front of the Ness on his behalf for cash. big stayed back and steered the ship focusing on the future of the Rockefeller record label and the label's roster was strong for the next few years with the label signing famous acts such as Cameron and The Diplomats, Jim Jones mo P ODB freeway and Memphis Bleek beanie sigel . and even a young Kanye West also bought the rights to a vodka brand called Armand Dale.

He was like a sea rock to Ciroc, an equally tasteless attempt to cash in on his high profile by dumping cheap liquid liver poison on the urban community behind his hip hop hits, but hey, tell me more about how everyone but you, as a culture, Bob, but as we all know, Rock's biggest hustle came in the form of fashion in the 90s, many of the rock artists became fond of a The fashion brand called Ice Berg is another Italian fashion brand ugly and expensive that seemed to catch the attention and bank balances of rappers around the '90s before becoming irrelevant, but at one point they really showed up and he even tried to establish a partnership with them. which failed, so in 1999 the rock kids decided that, instead of helping other companies make money off their culture, they created their own clothing business, Rocawear, which Dame Dash would have a big influence on making. take off.

I would make records and me. I will talk about several of my clothing brands while recording. I think we should come to terms with that on my album. In fact, in your business a little bit, you know, I said maybe you should work with me and they turned me down. I don't think they understood how much clothing they could move, maybe I could start with everything, start shaping. Rocawear began life as a simple brand with a logo printed on t-shirts, but from there they set out to go further. and set up a meeting with Russell Simmons, who not only found a definitive jam, but also a discount hip-hop companion, fat farm favorite fat farm, fat farm was huge in the '90s, as was his brand female focus sister, baby fur, which in the '90s was responsible for covering more young women in peas than our own Kelly Russell Simmons provided them with the contacts they needed to become a legitimate fashion house and they did so through licensing deals with manufacturers that already had large operations just 18 months after the founding of the company that Rocawear had withdrawn. huge sales of eighty million dollars that jay-z referenced in the song The Blueprint, don't you know, since jay-z spent the next few years promoting rock, where in his lyrics and in his real body the money is accumulated and rose to the top of the entiresuccess and sense of your own farts Gimme: Paddington lives the good life, famous for splashing out cash on thousands of pairs of sneakers.

Personal chef who traveled everywhere to prepare special lunches and dinners for diabetics and supposedly a personal butler and driver. take him in his $400,000 Maybach, whatever Give me, I mean, even I have one of those, but hey, why not? This is the rap game and Rockefeller is a money making machine after all, in 1999, tough talk about life was the best selling rap. talk in hi

story

raising 18 million dollars and by the 2000s Rocawear was making hundreds of millions of dollars selling oversized, low-priced clothing and J, as well as the entire roster of Rockefeller artists, were producing a flattened amalgam from the platinum album, so what could come out? bad, the relationship between Jay and Dame began to slowly strain over a long period of time, reportedly on that tough life tour in 99, Jay had begun to tire of Dame Dash has an abrasive management style exemplified by his many public outbursts on camera, including this famous backstage moment on the Hard Knock Life tour where Dame Dash went crazy after discovering that her artists had been sent branded jackets with the Def Jam logo instead of the code.

Rockefeller logo that said Memphis bleek. This is the only thing Def Jam got. one up or at least led to that famous tense confrontation between Def Jam CEO Kevin Liles and Dame, where he called it out, it was this type of behavior that helped den - cultivate a reputation as a quote-unquote, pattern of behavior that continued for the five years that followed, in fact, several popular nicknames for Dame Dash swirled around the Rockefeller offices, foot callers including, but not limited to, Damon Dash, Dame Dolph Hitler, and, of course, Dame, the CEO of Coca Fela Records, but aside from Dame's irritating behavior on the streets, he was also making irritating business moves in the boardroom that were getting on Jay-Z's nerves.

Dame was trying to get his company Rockefeller Films off the ground and kept dragging Jay in for cameos in his poorly written budget movies. Damon Dash has invited our magazine inside Rockefeller to make these movies apparently wasn't of much interest to Jay and to make matters worse it seemed like Dame Dash was getting more and more arrogant every day and according to beanie sigel Jay didn't like how Dame Dash was getting sucked into being a celebrity instead of being a CEO and spending so much of the company's money on vanity spending champagne; selfish and arrogant, surely not, I mean, he just looks at how humble he is while he pours champagne over it. the girl's face in the big pimping video and supposedly Dame Dash even had a habit of disrespecting jay-z's business acumen in public by making a comment on a New Yorker article that was interpreted by some as a suggestion that he didn't like jay-z coming. to business meetings and in 2002, Sway asked Jay-Z about rumors of a breakup between them, which Jay damned Dame Dare and Jay-Z, yes, a lot of people, but the tool they were fighting over business issues, right?

What do I mean? You make it clear that what's going on between Dame and I is like whatever whatever whatever whatever it is that we don't agree on you know we can always talk to each other and we always can whether I'm wrong or him being wrong or whatever we can, we always See our way through this it's never a problem that we can't see our way through this and people just exploit it to be more than it was. I mean what we've been doing forever, you know, with two different people. I'm saying that he's allowed Kyle a bad guy like us, you know, I'm saying that there will be times when no, we're not 100 percent on the same page, but we are friends, but supposedly in 2003, while Jay was away. vacation with Bay Dame, fired several Rock employees, and promoted Cameron to vice president of Rockefeller Records without informing Jay, and Jim Jones referenced this in the Dipset anthem.

Jay returned from the vacancy to veto the measure, causing public friction between him and Dame Dash. and Cameron had been having a mini complex issue with the side of all of this that originated when Jay took the H to Izzo's beat from the camera, that was my beat and I heard this on a radio two weeks later when they influenced the press . for those answers again in an interview about a year later, but Jay came up short because he didn't get paid, he made decisions you don't agree with and vice versa, but I mean, that's just part of being in the business, what are business decisions?

Did he do it? Was it by seeing them that we violate that trust again? I wouldn't, boy, it's okay. It has also been said that around this time Jay began to have much less admiration for Dame Dash as a business mentor, saying in a 2009 Double XL interview that he believes Dame Dash is good for starting something, but she constantly gets in his way. way, suggesting that Dame Dash simply doesn't know how to behave in the professional corporate world. Oh, come on, Jay, I mean, I'm sure Warren Buffett knows that. He has a lot to do with building a successful corporate business conglomerate, but can he move like that?

Basically, Dame was constantly running around causing problems that Jay had to clean up after Dame had structured himself at home and from there Jay became more dependent on former gamma accountant Nelly on him. and record executives Steve Stoute for their business support, this combined with Jay-Z's ambition to retire after his last album, The Black Album, and become a full-time business executive, will be the death knell for their partnership. with Dame Dash when a drunk Dame was interviewed. In 2004 he seemed to have an inkling that Jay-Z was about to spread his wings and enter, but nothing could have prepared him for the initial level of nesting he was about to now be subjected to in order to understand how Jay's legendary finesse works. -z. worked, you have to understand the corporate ownership structure of Def Jam and Rockefeller, Rockefeller was now half owned by Universal, which owned a group of companies including Polydor, which owned a quarter of Rockefeller, and Island Def Jam, which ownedDef Jam, which owned the other quarter of Rockefeller.

Tensions had now been high between Dame Dash and the other top brass at Def Jam due to their terrible behavior over the years and in 2003 secret exploratory meetings had taken place between Universal CEO Doug Morris and Jay-Z. . These were discussions about Jay-Z's potential to join Universal's executive ranks after being so impressed with how well he had handled things at Rockefeller and the secret deals regarding Jay-Z's future career as a rapper. and executive continued behind closed doors and culminated explosively in the famous blackout marketing meeting secretly organized by Def Jam now Dame found out that Def Jam was holding a secret meeting about jay-z and so he reacted like any rational corporate CEO I would call a strangler, no joke, the Rockefeller cameraman who came to target filmed ambushing everyone at the boardroom meeting one lady had an idea about their meeting, you know, so she used to wonder how they could call me Rockefeller, they told me , so fjm called me to order the black armor for me, me, me, in the office and no. early you want to be boss in my units at the club Dame walked into that meeting room and let it explode with all the delicacy of someone whose car had been blocked by an envelope Jack, no one needs you to come out, clear sign, sir, this me remembers you.

What you're seeing wouldn't be real and it goes wrong now that supposedly this was the day Dane realized that Jay would no longer deal with him directly and the story goes that everyone at that meeting knew that Jay-Z was preparing to leave The Rock. apart from Dave because up until that point Dame had been attacking people without realizing that Jay had been making moves on his own. I use my when I can rate Jay based on your operating agreement, good or bad. I know you didn't. talk to Jay about it, believe me no one talked to Jay about Memphis Bleek, he even said at the drinking champs that he tried to warn Dame that Jay was doing it alone but they wouldn't listen so he was trying to tell her that.

Wow, you move it too fast because I'm talking about it like a great friend. I'm hammering through the pipeline and then that conversation was on a plane, but I had a face-to-face conversation with everyone. I told the man. I see this day the crews trying. to keep it together, yeah, so he said, "Why don't you play what you play," and then in 2004, an explosive chain of events took place. It was first revealed that Def Jam had purchased Rockefeller's remaining 50% stake in the Jay Z. and Bix game, this was a deal apparently worth around fifty million dollars with a cash payer of ten million dollars and at the same time Neil Cohen was replaced by Reed, who clashed with the president of Def Jam, Kevin Liles, which caused him to jump ship and go to Warner with Leo and this left Def Jam without a president and at this point Jay-z was offered the role of president of Def Jam in a thirty-year deal. million dollars that would pay him ten million dollars a year for three years, but most importantly a clause that would return all the master recordings that Jam personally produced now that Jay values ​​the ownership of his master recordings back in 1996, he left very Of course ownership was his goal and I know what I didn't want to know what I want, I wanted complete control over my music, you know me, okay, then you're in a publication.

Rage AZ called this an offer he couldn't refuse and was thinking about the legacy he could leave to his children when he accepted it. Jay Z accepted this package in a deal that would effectively make him Dame Dash's boss, supposedly asking him out. dinner to give him the bad news, telling him in pure mafia style that it's just business, but as a final gesture of good will, Jay Z offered Dame Dash all the rights to the Rockefeller name in exchange for the master recording of Jay's first album. Reasonable Doubt, but in a final move of cutting off his nose despite his own stupid face Dame Bash rejects this and since it was recorded before that death, Jam's agreement to this day, Reasonable Doubt is the last item in Jay-z's music catalog that he doesn't own 100% outright and is unlikely to ever get his hands on again because Biggs has said in interviews that he will never sell the issue.

I never let him go. Reasonable doubt you will never sell it. No, he is there. I mean, that's something. Dear to my heart, Dame Dash quickly tried to get a new label off the ground that initially dedicated herself to the rock business for life before changing the name of her company to Damon, that music group did it in a lady: music that It was set to continue. being a Universal imprint but not under the control of the extermination camp that Jay-Z was president of, he probably wanted to do this so he wouldn't have to report to Jay Z because Dame Dash notoriously hates owning a box, there's no money in this world . for someone to pay me so they can call me, I can call him boss, that's like calling someone dad, there's something about how one man can call me another, oh that's my boss, but the Dame Dash deal fell apart in the middle of rumors that he was constantly angry. executives continually seeking a larger role within Universal to be on par with Jay-z Dame Dash dissolved her label and left Def Jam shortly after with the media applauding the split and for a brief moment Dame Dash even attempted to cash in Starting a wacky TV show that seemed like a cheap knockoff of The Apprentice called The Ultimate Hustler where the final price of the show was to get a fully loaded Jeep Commander, a useful prize that if you won the show you would use to drive as far as possible.

Dame Dash as humanly possible and in a separate agreement to completely sever business ties with Jay-Z once and for all Dame Dash decided to sell its stake in Rocawear to Jay-Z and two other founding partners for $22 million, it was assumed the office. is that he did this to get out of his deal with Jay-Z, considering ultimately how much he hates anyone who could be construed as his boss. I really saw my interests around where I could be completely independent, but the most elaborate part of him was that he had lost his passion for the Rocawear line and wanted to invest that money in his wife Rachel Roy's fashion business. .

I sold my share in rock, where I can invest in something that didn't reflect my tastes, which was Rachel Roy and instead of investing in a man all day I preferred to invest in a woman oh you know Rachel Roy who divorced Dame - and recently itarrested because she owes over 400 thousand in child support oh you know Rachel Roy who was supposedly Becky with the good hair the flirt The side chick at the Met Gala who had a hard time giving Jay-Z a good kick in the elevator , oh you know, Rachel Roy, who started in fashion working as an intern at Rocawear, ended up marrying the boss and divorcing his ass, that's bad. investment if I ever saw a Dame but three of her ties to Rockefeller and Rocawear Dame Dash was finally a free man with no boss and $22 million richer, which sounds like a lot, but I would later find out it was a very poor rich move . in money poor in brain cells about a year after Dame sold his stake, Jay-Z would sell the Rocawear brand to licensee Ikonics for two hundred and four million dollars.

Now it's unclear exactly what Dame Dash shares with Rocawear, but let's assume that he at least had a quarter share because he was the driving force behind developing the brand in the first place, meaning that selling his share at twenty-two million dollars would have valued it at eighty-eight million dollars at the time he sold it, but assuming he had. stuck to his bet and got a quarter of that iconic heist, he would have been looking at a fifty-one million dollar purse, which means if these numbers are even close to being correct, Jay-Z would have eliminated Dame Dash from a round of twenty. nine million dollars, that's a big L and I'm sure many years later a lot of things came to light where they tried to sue Jay for overvaluing the company and he managed to convince them to close that lawsuit and finally settle for what they seemed fifteen million dollars, regardless of the fact that they lost a huge purse here and a great opportunity with the history of Rockefeller Records cut short.

Le Daim only has himself to blame for this because it was his behavior that drove Jay away in the first place and created these circumstances, we all know Dame hates having a boss, but he went around calling Jay his artist on numerous occasions, including in that final boardroom rap, but Jason have been ladies' artists. Jason has been anything from Dame, they were partners. Gimme wasn't Jay's box. Dame's ego. she became too big for her bald head, causing her to overlook the fact that Jay was not signed to Rockefeller. Jeb. Did Rockefeller Dame get so caught up in his own ego of being the boss and not having a boss, but he forgot a very important fact?

But even the most important boss in any company always has stakeholders who can fire him, whether they are his investors, his employees, his colleagues or even his own damn customers. Just because your name is on the building doesn't mean they can't take your ass down the staff can fire you for being a by quitting your clients can fire you for not taking the hit that produces third objective: the studios and your business partners can fire you by hanging you and perfecting yourself for the company and Daymond got too high from smelling their own farts to realize that and the fact that Dame Dash didn't develop any significant or successful artists after all this happened is possibly a testament to the fact that he wasn't that good.

Like Meanwhile, Jay-Z clearly had an eye for talent, bringing incredible artists like Rihanna Young Jeezy and Rick Ross to the forefront while he was the head of Def Jam. It turns out that berating, yelling at your artists, and illegally leaking music is no way to encourage. The talent on his label since the fall of Rock Dame Dash has attracted a lot of negative attention regarding his business and financial affairs, whether it's getting arrested for unpaid child support, embarrassingly arresting Lee Daniels to try to collect a two million debt of dollars. the venue was hit with a $7 million defamation lawsuit from a former business partner in a film project;

Worst of all, he's apparently so broke that he can't afford to pay a $2,400 court judgment, that's where he weakens and gets a bad reputation. like a nightmare to work for arrives here and I'm sure Dame Dash has denied media reports that he is bankrupt and has dragged the media for speaking negatively about him, but even now after all these years he seems completely unable to take responsibility for how his bad behavior led to some of his business failures, instead his favorite strategy is to simply call anyone who disagrees with him a culture vulture, reflected in guidance, testimony Precise, oh boy, I wonder what he'll say about me, eh, as time goes by, Dane. put most of the blame for what happened in Rockefeller along with the crown of the ultimate culture vulture on the former president of Def Jam, Lyle Cohen, he was a funny guy in the unpleasantness, he is not afraid, I think his influences before, which It's the ball business, it's my problem. was with Lee or because I think he's a fake CEO and I think he's taking on my culture but he can't take on anyone else and I'm calling him out publicly and I want him to stop trying to rape my coach and go make some money off other people I never had problems with Jay always with Leo and his entire team he is the one who ruined Rockefeller we all called him like he was a charlatan Patty Pink but he never put a dollar in his life he was never a boss of mine he just represented money from someone else, why do black people know more about that white man than white people?

Because with Jay-Z and you know, but despite all these outbursts, Lil was at the Breakfast Club with very little to say about Damn, I Have a Business to Run. You're going to have Dame Dash take this clip and call you coach and Bulger, whose team you raised him. I don't even know him. I don't even know him the first time. I once heard the Lady. I had a problem with myself because my daughter called me and asked me whose Lady is it. I don't pay attention, since we all know. Leah Cohen moved on to Volks, culture, at the highest level possible, she founded 300 entertainment and signed. young thug to a 360 deal and of course he became global head of music at YouTube, that's why we love it, we love Lyor Cohen, Damon Lee or, as an aside, jay-z's tenure as head of Def Jam was quite successful overseeing many big projects and his own comeback with the album Kingdom Come, but in 2008 it emerged that Jay-Z had signed a new deal worth $150 million with Live Nation to launch his own new label Roc Nation.

He finally bought out his Def Jam contracts for a whopping five million dollars as part of a deal that would give him back ownership of his coveted catalog of rock-a-fella music and records - it's actually been revived twice since once by Dame Dash in a failed attempt to sign the former Young Money and Cleveland rapper from Family. Guy sounds like a coin and jay-z revived Rockefeller in name only to sentimentally release a joint album by J and D what's the throne under the Def Jam and Rockefeller umbrella of a rock nation in 2013 jay-z said no I had nothing but love today I can only have love, that's good to hear, I just don't know, you know where we are in life, but conversely, in 2019, after hearing that jay-z had signed a contract with the NFL, Gimme Dash was running around saying that jay-z doesn't listen to you if you Ask anyone in the industry, it's common knowledge that J Don't you know that Sam isn't firm?

It's about the back. You know, we all know it's about his self-preservation period. Oh well, that's good to hear. Well, see during editing day. Man, she came out and talked. I feel salty about what Jay had done to him on the rock, so it was worth adding this here, no matter what he feels, he was wrong here, he's okay and no matter what I'll always feel that way. So you're never going to like it if someone got someone with some work and left. I forgive you, don't bother me, but ask me about that person who ran away.

Should you do it with the rock where she was dirty? she said she wasn't going to be a part of it while she was selling it if you valued it and then you know I walked away because I needed to do my thing and all of a sudden they do something big like that. that was dirty, you know, they put me, I mean, that was dirty, ultimately the story has been told. Jay came out the winner and Damon the loser, but apparently Dame Dash is not completely down and out, I never want to miss the opportunity to sell his The story of a few cents says that Dame Dash is following in Trump's footsteps and is launching Dame Dash University, giving you the opportunity to learn business lessons from the master Dame Dash himself, so I am very proud to present to you this exclusive clip from Dame Dash University presented by the man himself Dame Dash is a British cousin.

I'm British by name, and these are my top five tips for surviving in business. Step 1. Ignore new perspectives. Don't let people come and try to make your life better. Friends will do it. He always betrays you, especially if his last name is Z, the only voices you should listen to, the ones yelling at you and your bald guy, because who knows your business better than the hell he does. Step 2, be confrontational no matter your environment. I do not care if. this is his son's funeral this is a small thing my son is going to have a much better funeral than this man this priest is a true culture vulture if he knew anything about business he would be getting a lawsuit for 400 racks step 3 live in the past because how else are you going to remember all the people who hurt you because the best revenge is success or failing that complaining about people on a podcast step 4 never having a boss having a boss is like having hair who needs it and if you don't have it the boss how else are you going to convince the intern to marry you and of course take advantage of any opportunity and that's why

dame

- merch offers 20% off clothing on the road for the rest of the decade?

I hate culture vultures, but if you're going to vault farm, you can also do it for 20% off using promo code craft 2020, so head over to www.skinnygainmuscle.com