Jay-Z Confirms, Explains Sony & Atlantic Deals

One_Yaself_Hater · 06-30-2009, 09:35 PM

As previously reported, Jay-Z has inked a distribution deal with Sony for his Roc Nation label, the Brooklyn-born rapper confirmed to Billboard last week.

"Sony is Roc Nation. That's where Roc Nation's going through," Jay-Z told Billboard.com on Friday (June 29).

As for the deal he recently signed with Atlantic, he clarifies that it is a one-off situation for his upcoming album, "Blueprint 3," slated for a September 11th release.

"That's pretty much just for this specific album. Roc Nation -- we're experts in marketing and making records. But we do distribution deals," he says. "On this one, we're working directly with the Atlantic staff, which is Julie [Greenwald], Lyor [Cohen], Kevin [Liles] and Kyse [Mike Kyser]. For the rest of the Roc Nation artists, we did a distribution deal with Sony."

Jay-Z also told Billboard he originally approached Def Jam with the same distribution deal idea four years ago, but was shut down. "You have to figure, this is like four years ago, and to them it was just like, 'Are you crazy? No! Make a song!'" he said. "To me it was like, I've sold companies for huge amounts of money. I'm an entrepreneur -- that's what I've been all my life. I can't just sit here and make records and not do anything else. Why wouldn't you want to do this with me? I felt under-utilized."

When his Def Jam contract was nearing expiration and he had one last album to release with the label (in this case, "Blueprint 3"), Jay-Z opted to buy himself out of the contract for a reportedly $5 million price tag.

In related news, Jay-Z, who performed during this year's BET Awards on Sunday (June 28) released the video to his "D.O.A. (Death of Auto-tune)" video after the show, as part of BET's post show. The clip features guest appearances from Lyor Cohen, head of Warner Music Group which houses Atlantic Records, basketball player Lebron James and actor Harvey Keitel.

http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/...03989086.story

rollindolo · 06-30-2009, 09:43 PM

just retire all ready,

black ice 07 · 06-30-2009, 10:15 PM

Boss moves. You can hate on Hova but you still have to admit that's some impressive shit.

GMNRecordsCT3 · 07-01-2009, 03:36 PM

I try not to involve myself wit all his buisness but, he makes CLASSIC music... end of the day thats all i care about... he doin it BIG buisness wise tho

06-30-2009, 09:35 PM	#1
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06-30-2009, 09:43 PM	#2
rollindolo Banned Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Cali Posts: 415 Repped: 65 Repped 157 Times in 70 Posts Neg Reps: 51 Neg Repped at 254 Times in 135 Posts	just retire all ready,

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black ice 07 Veteran Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Memphis Tenn Posts: 1,910 Repped: 919 Repped 839 Times in 136 Posts Neg Reps: 0 Neg Repped at 11 Times in 10 Posts	Boss moves. You can hate on Hova but you still have to admit that's some impressive shit.