The West Coast saved Jay-Z’s career????

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I can't prove it but I guarantee Jay-Z made sure he was in the middle of this shoot.


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cause he for sure shouldn't have been. but he the type.

The title alone speaks volumes. Jay had already 3 albums at the time of that magazine. DMX dropped 2 albums in the same year (1998) and Ja Rule was about to drop his debut album.

Vol 2 dropped in 1998 in between DMX's first 2 albums. If not for Can I Get A being gifted to him by Jay Rule, Jay Z's career would've been put on the back burner.

The fact that the title says Introducing Murder Inc lets you know what time it was :mjlol:
 

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@Awesome Wells have you heard anything about that allegation that Jay was close to being dropped by Def Jam? I never heard that before. I guess it makes sense in the context of the first two albums not really popping the way other albums were popping but still.

Nah, his first two releases under Def Jam sold 7,000,000 million albums in a couple years.

Lyor always says that X and Jay "saved" Def Jam back then. But damn near every release during the run started around '98 was doing well for the label. The Hard Knock Life Tour, which was basically the Def Jam Tour, was headlined by Jay and made Def Jam mad money. That run after Roc signed there and X got there, was the most successful the label had ever been. They weren't thinking about dropping dude. He was making them way too much money, at the time.
 

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I can't prove it but I guarantee Jay-Z made sure he was in the middle of this shoot.


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cause he for sure shouldn't have been. but he the type.

Nah.

He's the tallest out of the three. It would make sense for him to be in the middle. That's how you frame the shot properly. You don't put the short n*ggas in the middle, lol.
 

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Only thing I completely agreed with him on is the Jay Z lacking solo hit records thing.


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Pretty much all of his of his most popular songs right now either feature Kanye or someone else.

While Kanye's most popping songs don't include him. :mjlol:

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Since when was "nikkas In Paris" a solo Kanye song. And there's a few Kanye songs on that playlist that have a feature. "Gold Digger" is one of Kanye's biggest hits and you're lying if you say that song works without Jamie Foxx imitating Ray Charles on the chorus.
 

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Only west coast cats would co-sign an unknown cac/mexican putting on Jay-z :mjlol:
 

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Somewhat facts

Who You Wit saved him
Flex admitted to accepting payola to push the record

Because after Sunshine flopped, he was done
Jay and them said they moved with brown paperbags to all the radio stations, Jay doesn’t say much and is not known to lie about his past :yeshrug:
 
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