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Jay-Z Talks Signing Kanye West & Dame Dash
September 4th, 2009
This.Might.Ruffle.A.Few.FEATHERS! So since XXLMag.com, Karen Civil and Rap Radar had their fun posting excerpts from Jay’s October XXL Magazine issue, I figure why not take it home with probably one of the best excerpts from Lucky Lefty’s (IMO) interview which was conducted by the big homey, Bonsu Thompson.
There’s always been speculation on whether Jay or Dame made the executive decision to bring Kanye West on board to Roc-A-Fella Records back in 2001. Dame basically took credit for the move, stating it was 100% him. Jay never really denied or accepted Dame’s allegations, instead he remained mum on the topic (at least to my knowledge).
Well, from the excerpt below, it seems Jay was on board to keep the beat smith around (production wise at least) since he, Biggs or Dame wasn’t sure what would actually become of Mr. West (little did they know). In the second excerpt, Jay describes the hardships in working with Dame’s brash business mind frame. Again, this may ruffle a few feathers. Don’t kill the messenger, please.
Jay-Z on not receiving credit for Kanye West, Ne-Yo, Rihanna & Young Jeezy..
“Let’s first clear this thing about Dame and Kanye and all of us. We all had a conversation about Kanye and whether to sign him. No one knew what would become of Kanye. Not Dame, not me, not Biggs. So we all sat down and said, “Let’s at least sign so we can keep the tracks in-house. It’s only good business.” And Dame said, “We can put Beans and Cam, surround him and make this type of album.” I wasn’t saying don’t sign Kanye, I was saying, at least keep the beats in-house, if anything. I don know. Maybe, maybe not. Let’s keep him here. Dame came up with the idea of surrounding him with Roc-A-Fella artists on his album, which never came out, ’cause when the album came in, everyone was like, “Oh this is good.” He stood on his own. If anything, I should be credited for wanting to sign him for his tracks. So even if Dame did sign him, he was gone at that time. I engineered those album. In my years there, even if Tina Davis signed Ne-Yo, she was gone. They were gonna drop Ne-Yo until Ty-Ty [Tyran Smith; former Def Jam VP of A&R] put his hand up and said, “I’ll do that project.” So there’s no Ne-Yo if I’m not there. I scrapped one of his videos that no one knows about, pulled Hype Williams, pulled June Ambrose, my stylist, made the “So Sick” video, and he’s outta here. Rihanna, there’s just no getting around that. So in three years, I’ve worked on Kanye, Ne-Yo and Rihanna. I don’t even wanna talk about the Fab record that was mine ["Money Goes, Honey Stay (When The Money Goes Remix)" off Fab's latest LP, "Loso's Way"], Jeezy doing “Go Crazy (Remix)” in my office. It doesn’t even make sense to [list] like that, ’cause it’s childish.”
Jay-Z on the business mindset of Dame Dash…..
“I don’t want people to take this wrong, but if that’s my opinion, that’s my opinion. Dame is good at starting something. I don’t know if he gets in his own way at a certain point. You know, the fights you had coming up aren’t the same fights when you’re on a different level. What would happen is, a lot of times, I would have to go fix. You know, it was time-consuming, going back and just doing three meetings, when we could have had one. Nothing got accomplished, because everyone was screaming at each other. It got to a point…..John Meneilly (Jay’s manager) is not even the same type of thing.”
Hmmm- interesting. Well I’m sure you’re probably yearning for more, so I suggest you hit the streets of NYC and pick up an early copy of XXL’s October issue. The suits say we’re not supposed to have it until September 15th, but as you can see…I say otherwise, lol. IM GHOST!
Sincerely
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