Big Daddy Kane On Shopping Jay-Z To Labels and Getting Rejected: "They Didn't Like His Flow & Image" The Art Of Dialogue

[LevelUp]

 

[TELL ME YA CHEESIN FAM?]

We already had a Fu-Schnickens

 

[Woodrow]

they were shopping rapid-fire jay z, v1. i 1000% understand why no one was rushing to sign jay at that point. def didn't stand out compared to what everyone around him was doing until he got on his dopeboy shyt. and even then i dont think it clicked until he slowed the flow down to a conversation.

 

[Tookalossfellbackcameback]

He was ugly and awkward...Nas already told you. Zero charisma. Self esteem was probably low. All that fast flow, "riggity, riggity" shyt was trash.


He slowed the flow down, became a coke kingpin and the rest is history.

 

[Tommy Gibbs]

We already had a Fu-Schnickens

actually it was Jaz O's flow. After Jaz O, you had Kane, LL, and others starting biting Jaz's style. Das Efx and the Fushnickens came years after Jaz debut. Jaz slowed up his flow and then Jay followed.

 

[Rekkapryde]

He slowed the flow down, became a coke kingpin and the rest is history.

 

[Da_Eggman]

went from Jaz to hanging with Kane, to Irv, to Big
And, Eminem murdered you on your own shyt

 

[TrapHouse Rock]

"Jay-Z's Embarrassing" - Jay-Z

 

[Cynic]

He was ugly and awkward...Nas already told you. Zero charisma. Self esteem was probably low. All that fast flow, "riggity, riggity" shyt was trash.


He slowed the flow down, became a coke kingpin and the rest is history.

He switched up and pivoted...so this interview is unneccesarry

 

[Art Barr]

He switched up and pivoted...so this interview is unneunneccesarry

@

So how did he switch up.

Did he create his own skillset.

Or are you trying to deflect.
from the facts being brought up.
on how he bit to become jayz.
Plus got served every step of the way. While being the ugly uberverse version of cool c.

If cool c would have had talent.
It would have never been no outlet for jayz to draw. By cool c being so wack. It created the what if based questions to consumers.

Of what if cool c.
would have been actually talented.



Art Barr

 

[Cynic]

@

So how did he switch up.

Did he create his own skillset.

Or are you trying to deflect.
from the facts being brought up.
on how he bit to become jayz.
Plus got served every step of the way. While being the ugly uberverse version of cool c.

If cool c would have had talent.
It would have never been no outlet for jayz to draw. By cool c being so wack. It created the what if based questions to consumers.

Of what if cool c.
would have been actually talented.



Art Barr

What hypothetical nonsense are you talking about ?

Jay-Z is wealthier and more successful than any of these record clowns who rejected him.

 

[DontEemTry]

He's prolly the best example in hiphop of proving the doubters wrong when you believe in yourself 100%

I know most these nikkas that passed sick to their stomach

 

[bigde09]

I don’t blame them. Camels aren’t easy to market…

 

[BigMoneyGrip]

This the Jay they got

 

[Tommy Gibbs]

He's prolly the best example in hiphop of proving the doubters wrong when you believe in yourself 100%

I know most these nikkas that passed sick to their stomach

no neccessairly because his first album, as great as it was, was on Freeze records. It went gold, but didn't get the success it deserved. People didn't catch on to RD until 3 years later with the repress by Def Jam.