50 Cent Praises Jay-Z For Leaving Roc-A-Fela In New Book

[Guvnor]

@ 50 believing Yayo was gonna be the next him. Wow​

Belive it or not it could have happened and Fifty is the one who prevented it.

Yayo not only brought Fifty Cent a younger Danny Brown who was a beast but he also discovered J Cole very early in his career and heard Simba before it came out.

Maybe not as a rapper but Yayo always had his ear to the street and I don't know why Fif ain't cultivate that. At the same time maybe it was Fif's mentality where he was always waring with nikkas that messed up a lot of things too. How could you build when you always in destroy mode? I'm sure they chased a lot of potential artist away from G-Unit. Even This Is 50 which was dope and building towards something with Jack thriller and Pvnch seems to be dead.

Kanye snaked Dame, wound up being good business move though since he a billionaire now
JayZ never believed in Kanye, Dame did. Dame essentially signed him as an artist and allowed him to work on his album as a rapper. Jay got all the credit cause it was officially released under him on Def Jam
The fact Kanye snaked Dame then made a whole song dikkeating Jay as his "brother"

You're wrong in a way. Jay was still with Roc-A-Fella when College Dropout came out.

I don't think Jay was prez over at Def Jam when College Dropout came out.

Also it was Dame and Biggs who believe in Kanye a lot but people forget Biggs was a big part of things when it came to Ye's career.

 

[Guvnor]

He stole from the Roc company account

He stole from Beans

He stole from Currensy

Possibly Jim Jones

This is all news to me. You got any sources to back any of that up.

I know with Curren$y they fell out cause Curren$y wanted to sign a deal with Warner at the time and try to go major. When he signed with Warner they kept taking down his Muscle Car Chronicles album from the iTunes and Dame felt a way since legally he had a contract with Curren$y. Curren$y wanted Dame to just respect it and keep it down but Dame felt it was his right to put it up since they had a deal.

 

[Finesse]

Ye always credits Dame for his deal. Thats been constant throughout his whole career

 

[iamduval]

This is all news to me. You got any sources to back any of that up.

I know with Curren$y they fell out cause Curren$y wanted to sign a deal with Warner at the time and try to go major. When he signed with Warner they kept taking down his Muscle Car Chronicles album from the iTunes and Dame felt a way since legally he had a contract with Curren$y. Curren$y wanted Dame to just respect it and keep it down but Dame felt it was his right to put it up since they had a deal.

Not quite. Currensy sued Dame for releasing Muscle Car Chronicles and not paying him. He won the case.

 

[Budda]

Nah, it's true and I think Dame is a crazy a$$hole that is reaping what he sowed today.

I still remember that interview Kanye did after he chose Jay and the interviewer asked him if he felt like he betrayed Dame since he's the only one on the label who believed in him enough and he got all quiet and shook and said "yes"...

I'm sure someone can find it and post it up.

I remember this too, he blatantly said yes.

 

[A Tribe Called Quest ™]

This and the Flow jacking too

This old nikka said Wale is Dreamchasers

 

[Sinister]

Nah, it's true and I think Dame is a crazy a$$hole that is reaping what he sowed today.

I still remember that interview Kanye did after he chose Jay and the interviewer asked him if he felt like he betrayed Dame since he's the only one on the label who believed in him enough and he got all quiet and shook and said "yes"...

I'm sure someone can find it and post it up.

I remember this. Specifically on MTV around the time of graduation. Same interview where he addressed the "homophobia" in hip hop.

 

[Sinister]

Belive it or not it could have happened and Fifty is the one who prevented it.

Yayo not only brought Fifty Cent a younger Danny Brown who was a beast but he also discovered J Cole very early in his career and heard Simba before it came out.

Maybe not as a rapper but Yayo always had his ear to the street and I don't know why Fif ain't cultivate that. At the same time maybe it was Fif's mentality where he was always waring with nikkas that messed up a lot of things too. How could you build when you always in destroy mode? I'm sure they chased a lot of potential artist away from G-Unit. Even This Is 50 which was dope and building towards something with Jack thriller and Pvnch seems to be dead.


You're wrong in a way. Jay was still with Roc-A-Fella when College Dropout came out.

I don't think Jay was prez over at Def Jam when College Dropout came out.

Also it was Dame and Biggs who believe in Kanye a lot but people forget Biggs was a big part of things when it came to Ye's career.

Didn't Yayo also try to sign Max B?

I also thought Bigges explicitly said it was basically him who handled college dropout.

 

[Pimp]

Didn't Yayo also try to sign Max B?

I also thought Bigges explicitly said it was basically him who handled college dropout.

Yea but Max was under contract with Jim Jones

 

[head shots101]

I remember this too, he blatantly said yes.

Yea it was on mtv and sway did the interview

 

[Master Teacher]

Kanye snaked Dame, wound up being good business move though since he a billionaire now
JayZ never believed in Kanye, Dame did. Dame essentially signed him as an artist and allowed him to work on his album as a rapper. Jay got all the credit cause it was officially released under him on Def Jam
The fact Kanye snaked Dame then made a whole song dikkeating Jay as his "brother"

how did he snake Dame

 

[Master Teacher]

Dame encouraged him to rap. just blaze has said this as well. Biggs in the DJ Vlad interview explains how they pushed his first album AND tried to release his pastel label. Jay had no involvement in none of that (according to Biggs who works at Roc Nation under Jay now)
Just accept that Dame ain't lying. The fact that jay and kanye snaked him is ok he IS an a$$hole

stop it with this nonsense, Kanye was always a rapper before the Roc, he even battled common lmao

Kanye had paid out of pocket for His through the wire video and promoted himself, and Dame showed up his to his release party because Kanye already had it popping, he never supported his career

is documented on VH1 Driven, stop with this revisionist history crap

Kanye supported himself, and Jay respected him because he took advantage of being on Roc unlike every other artist, so that's why he started fukking with him

 

[AMcV'88]

Dame encouraged him to rap. just blaze has said this as well. Biggs in the DJ Vlad interview explains how they pushed his first album AND tried to release his pastel label. Jay had no involvement in none of that (according to Biggs who works at Roc Nation under Jay now)
Just accept that Dame ain't lying. The fact that jay and kanye snaked him is ok he IS an a$$hole

Dame signed him but it was Biggs and Cam'ron that were Kanye's two biggest advocates at the label.

Kanye had a single deal with another label and Cam found out because him and Don C were close friends and told Dame. Dame signed him and like it was said, if the album wasn't good wanted to put Cam and Beans all over it.

Biggs took over from Dame in the music department because Dame doing more fashion stuff so Biggs was hands on with College Drop Out and Young Gunz album.

as time goes on people really try and diminish Dame's story and role at that label more and more everyday. like Dame didm't assign them all their jobs and gave them the tough love and confidence to be what they are now. they might've hated working for him but in that time period it worked. Hip-Hop keeps it a buck out of all them.

shout out to Jim Jones though, he wanted a deal and asked for a budget of one million for his album.
Dame told him no, he went with Koch and eventually changed the viewpoint of working with an independent label in New York.

 

[The Connoisseurs]

I can see why 50 thought yayo was star

-he can rap ..if I’m not mistaken yayo showed/taught 50 how to rap and encouraged him to go after it.

-yayo is hilarious pretty entertaining person and has an ear for talent. He probably could’ve had a huge follooand support from the hatian community around the world.


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Also jay & dame both had faults but why do folks go out their way to shyt on dame like he was just a Nikka that happened to be around

 

[Guvnor]

Not quite. Currensy sued Dame for releasing Muscle Car Chronicles and not paying him. He won the case.

The only reason Curren$y sued him according to Dame was cause the Warner deal made it so they didn't want that project out so Curren$y had to sue him in order for him to take it down. Warner looked at it as they had all rights to Curren$y's music and looked at it as Copy Right Infringement. It was not about the money, it was about Copyright Infringement which is Curren$y's own words and that they were talking and still cool.



Doesn't look like he was robbing him to me More of a miscommunication thing which if you asked me didn't need to be a thing. Curren$y put out his best work under Dame and signing to Warner was a bad deal for him.