Jay-Z is a rap artist and former CEO of the record label Def Jam Recordings. Jay Z是说唱歌手,Def Jam Recordings唱片公司前首席执行官。 He co-owns the American basketball team the New Jersey Nets. 与他人共同拥有新泽西网队。 He has successfully expanded his career as a rapper into the wi...
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Even with a stage name, Jay-Z remained relatively anonymous until he and two friends, Damon Dash and Kareem Burke, founded their own record label, Roc-a-Fella Records, in 1996. In June of that year, Jay-Z released his debut album, Reasonable Doubt. Although the record only reached No....
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By Dave Simpson ( June 22, 2021, 10:50 PM EDT) -- A New York federal judge issued a temporary restraining order against Damon Dash on Tuesday, prohibiting the co-founder of Jay-Z's former record label Roc-A-Fella Records Inc. from auctioning off the copyright to the rapper's debut...
Aware of the hard days that he had been through to achieve success, Jay-Z published his autobiography entitled "The Black Book" along with the release of "The Black Album" in 2003. At that time, Jay-Z was romantically linked to formerDestiny's ChildsingerBeyonce Knowles. The couple, who...
The group disbanded shortly after its inception, and Fiasco soon met rapper Jay-Z who helped him sign a record deal with Atlantic Records. In September 2006, Fiasco released his debut album Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor on the label, which received three Grammy nominations. He released his ...
He created his own record label, Roc-A-Fella Records, in 1994, which was then sold to Def Jam for $10 million in 2004. "Hip-hop from the beginning has always been aspirational. It always broke that notion that an artist can't think about money as well." - Jay-Z His ...
hard drives and other items were confiscated in the search as a result of the record label's connection to former drug kingpin Kenneth "Supreme" McGriff. It was alleged the label was part of a crack and heroin business run by McGriff and sustained by killing people who threatened the opera...
[83] On May 21, 2009, Jay-Z announced he would be parting ways with Def Jam, and had struck a multi-million-dollar deal to sign with Live Nation, with whom he would start his Roc Nation imprint which would serve as a record label, talent/management agency, and music publishing ...