Comments on: Damon Dash in line to succeed Jay Z http://sandrarose.com/2007/12/31/damon-dash-in-line-to-succeed-jay-z/ Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:41:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: NC_NYer http://sandrarose.com/2007/12/31/damon-dash-in-line-to-succeed-jay-z/#comment-2794 NC_NYer Thu, 03 Jan 2008 03:11:14 +0000 http://sandrarose.com/2007/12/31/damon-dash-in-line-to-succeed-jay-z/#comment-2794 I heard someone say, "Don’t forget that Jay brought Ne*Yo, Rhianna, Kanye, Jeezy, Fabolous, Chrisette Michelle, Nas and others to Def Jam, Dej Jam got more Grammy Noms this year than any other record company." Jay didn't "bring" Kanye, Jeezy or Chrisette Michelle. Kanye was already selling records (did you forget The College Dropout?) and everybody & their mama likes Jeezy. Nas, The Roots and Fab were "traded" onto the team just as DMX and Musiq were "traded" away - and do you REALLY think those were Jay's decisions?? Uhh...NO. For all of you with short attention spans, Rihanna, Ne-Yo and Teairra Mari (yeah, Google her - "Princess of the Roc" - LOL) all came out at the same time, and Jay (as the new "president" of Def Jam) was used as the "face" to push these artists. And while I would support the idea of Dame hooking Kanye up with the Roc in the first place - I can not would NEVER want to see Dame Dash as the new president of Def Jam. Dame is/was a great entrepreneur, but dude's time has passed. Been there, done that, keep it moving. Jermaine Dupri? Nope, don't see that. Sandra, even you know no one even in ATL respects him...not really. Outside of the kiddie rappers (and that was cool in its time), only thing JD's hooked up big time was JE (*sigh*), Dem Franchize Boyz (ok), maybe a couple of others....but no... Jimmy "Henchman" - MAN....HELL NAW.....maybe Koch...but NOT DEF JAM...LOL, HELL NAW....LMAO Chuck D?? Dude is a legend - I have respect for him...pioneer...but no. I heard someone say, “Don’t forget that Jay brought Ne*Yo, Rhianna, Kanye, Jeezy, Fabolous, Chrisette Michelle, Nas and others to Def Jam, Dej Jam got more Grammy Noms this year than any other record company.”

Jay didn’t “bring” Kanye, Jeezy or Chrisette Michelle. Kanye was already selling records (did you forget The College Dropout?) and everybody & their mama likes Jeezy. Nas, The Roots and Fab were “traded” onto the team just as DMX and Musiq were “traded” away - and do you REALLY think those were Jay’s decisions?? Uhh…NO.

For all of you with short attention spans, Rihanna, Ne-Yo and Teairra Mari (yeah, Google her - “Princess of the Roc” - LOL) all came out at the same time, and Jay (as the new “president” of Def Jam) was used as the “face” to push these artists.

And while I would support the idea of Dame hooking Kanye up with the Roc in the first place - I can not would NEVER want to see Dame Dash as the new president of Def Jam. Dame is/was a great entrepreneur, but dude’s time has passed. Been there, done that, keep it moving.

Jermaine Dupri? Nope, don’t see that. Sandra, even you know no one even in ATL respects him…not really. Outside of the kiddie rappers (and that was cool in its time), only thing JD’s hooked up big time was JE (*sigh*), Dem Franchize Boyz (ok), maybe a couple of others….but no…

Jimmy “Henchman” - MAN….HELL NAW…..maybe Koch…but NOT DEF JAM…LOL, HELL NAW….LMAO

Chuck D?? Dude is a legend - I have respect for him…pioneer…but no.

]]> By: aqtpie http://sandrarose.com/2007/12/31/damon-dash-in-line-to-succeed-jay-z/#comment-2643 aqtpie Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:26:43 +0000 http://sandrarose.com/2007/12/31/damon-dash-in-line-to-succeed-jay-z/#comment-2643 Nobody in Jay's camp paid this nut any money to try and further tarnish Dame's reputation. I'm with Jay's lyrics <b>I heard muthaff**kers sayin’ they made Hov… Made Hov say ‘OK, so, make another Hov’…</b> In loose terms "If Dame made Jay? If he was this great business man, why hasn't he made anyone else? Hell why hasn't he done anything else that remains to be not greater but, at least equally successful to what they had? Jay has, it makes me wonder who really was the business man amongst the two, Jay left and he still succeeded. It would be great to seem them working together again though. Nobody in Jay’s camp paid this nut any money to try and further tarnish Dame’s reputation. I’m with Jay’s lyrics I heard muthaff**kers sayin’ they made Hov… Made Hov say ‘OK, so, make another Hov’… In loose terms “If Dame made Jay? If he was this great business man, why hasn’t he made anyone else? Hell why hasn’t he done anything else that remains to be not greater but, at least equally successful to what they had? Jay has, it makes me wonder who really was the business man amongst the two, Jay left and he still succeeded. It would be great to seem them working together again though.

]]> By: spraggaswifey http://sandrarose.com/2007/12/31/damon-dash-in-line-to-succeed-jay-z/#comment-2547 spraggaswifey Tue, 01 Jan 2008 16:25:28 +0000 http://sandrarose.com/2007/12/31/damon-dash-in-line-to-succeed-jay-z/#comment-2547 "I heard mu***rf*****'s sayin they made Hov made Hov say ok so make another Hov."...people give dame to much credit..don't get me wrong, dame did his thing but what SANDRA fails to acknowledge is jay had been trying to get DAME to straighten up his act because they had a plan from the gate...DAME was wylinn and was not stepping up and acting like a mature business man...jay did not just leave DAME for dead...DAME made his choice...what was jay supossed to do?..party all of his money away like some teenager just starting in the business and never advancing?..@Black Bauer ---you are right...LYOR TRIED FOR EVER to get jay to leave DAME but jay WOULD NOT DO IT AT FIRST...and LYOR was not the only 1 tryin to get jay to do that..@icia --falied to see what jay bought to the table?please see tonidanielle and re-read some of the other posts...i said i was going to not comment on anymore jay z stories but SANDRA hates JAY and her comments are not based on facts because if they were she wouldn't have printed those lies....SANDRA this is 2008 mamaz and you need to be hata free....i know DAME is looking at jay's paper and success and thinking and knowing that could have been him right along side jay... “I heard mu***rf*****’s sayin they made Hov made Hov say ok so make another Hov.”…people give dame to much credit..don’t get me wrong, dame did his thing but what SANDRA fails to acknowledge is jay had been trying to get DAME to straighten up his act because they had a plan from the gate…DAME was wylinn and was not stepping up and acting like a mature business man…jay did not just leave DAME for dead…DAME made his choice…what was jay supossed to do?..party all of his money away like some teenager just starting in the business and never advancing?..@Black Bauer —you are right…LYOR TRIED FOR EVER to get jay to leave DAME but jay WOULD NOT DO IT AT FIRST…and LYOR was not the only 1 tryin to get jay to do that..@icia –falied to see what jay bought to the table?please see tonidanielle and re-read some of the other posts…i said i was going to not comment on anymore jay z stories but SANDRA hates JAY and her comments are not based on facts because if they were she wouldn’t have printed those lies….SANDRA this is 2008 mamaz and you need to be hata free….i know DAME is looking at jay’s paper and success and thinking and knowing that could have been him right along side jay…

]]> By: Che http://sandrarose.com/2007/12/31/damon-dash-in-line-to-succeed-jay-z/#comment-2544 Che Tue, 01 Jan 2008 14:49:48 +0000 http://sandrarose.com/2007/12/31/damon-dash-in-line-to-succeed-jay-z/#comment-2544 In 5 years from now music is going to be released for free. The money that need to be made is going to be made on merchandising, touring and other extra curricula al deriving from the existence as an artist. Life cycle of an artist is going to be shorter. Churn rate of an artist is going to be highter because of instant global recognizion of an hit/artist. This new way of doing business requires a different mind set. Record companies are not going to be making that much money from music so they need to find new revenue streams. Is Dame up for it? Don't know but if you look at his track record he did a pretty descent job.I consider him a serial entrepeneur and of course he made some decisions who turned out to be not the best but that's the part of doing business. It is normal to get burned some time in your career. Now, you are as good as your team so if he hires good capable people surrounding him, he sure is a good bet. In 5 years from now music is going to be released for free. The money that need to be made is going to be made on merchandising, touring and other extra curricula al deriving from the existence as an artist. Life cycle of an artist is going to be shorter. Churn rate of an artist is going to be highter because of instant global recognizion of an hit/artist. This new way of doing business requires a different mind set. Record companies are not going to be making that much money from music so they need to find new revenue streams. Is Dame up for it? Don’t know but if you look at his track record he did a pretty descent job.I consider him a serial entrepeneur and of course he made some decisions who turned out to be not the best but that’s the part of doing business. It is normal to get burned some time in your career.

Now, you are as good as your team so if he hires good capable people surrounding him, he sure is a good bet.

]]> By: CANT TAKE IT NO MORE http://sandrarose.com/2007/12/31/damon-dash-in-line-to-succeed-jay-z/#comment-2521 CANT TAKE IT NO MORE Mon, 31 Dec 2007 23:56:57 +0000 http://sandrarose.com/2007/12/31/damon-dash-in-line-to-succeed-jay-z/#comment-2521 Bsoul Says: “Dame will be the President of DefJam the same day that Al Sharpton is in the White House”. EXACTLY Bsoul Says:

“Dame will be the President of DefJam the same day that Al Sharpton is in the White House”.

EXACTLY

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