Jay-Z has had many criticisms but has any artist ever accused him of stealing money?

[Standing on business]

Or publishing?


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All have had multiple artist claimed that they were being robbed, but I can't ever think of a time an artist said hov robbed or stole from them. The closest it ever came to that is when beenie Sigel was going at his neck, but even then he said jay never robbed them but did mention dame was stealing money from state property.

People say don't sign to labels but Rihanna and J cole don't seem to have any complaints

 

[Rhapscallion Démone]

you right, I haven't either

 

[surv2syn]

does this count?

 

[Dad]

kinda

I remember Redman saying when Jay was running Def Jam, every week they were eating sushi -
like $2,000 – $3,000 worth while him & other artist were in need of promotion.

 

[surv2syn]

also peep the sample at the end of the Omilio vid. Vlad wrong for that.

 

[Kilgore Trout]

There were lots of complaints (Cameron , DMX, etc) saying they when jay was running def jams he didn't want to spend any money on promotion unless it was for himself


Jay replied " I'm not a business man, I'm a BUSINESS!, man. "

 

[Standing on business]

does this count?

Sounds like whoever Sadiq is stole the money, he said him and jay were discussing cutting the check but his publishing wasn't setup, then the person who he ended up going with switched it up on him


Someone go into detail about this for me

 

[Standing on business]

There were lots of complaints (Cameron , DMX, etc) saying they when jay was running def jams he didn't want to spend any money on promotion unless it was for himself

He wasn't the CEO of def jam he was the president. Older Artist always complain about a budget, Dmx and ll cool j were the main ones complaining. Be honest how much of the budget would you open up for a red man, dmx or ll cool j in 2006



We can't say he didn't open it up cause the dream, jeezy, Rihanna, Rick Ross and neyo were all the new fresh money makers of that era, and they never had budget issues.

 

[letti cook]

He wasn't the CEO of def jam he was the president. Older Artist always complain about a budget, Dmx and ll cool j were the main ones complaining. Be honest how much of the budget would you open up for a dmx or ll cool j in 2006



We can't say he didn't open it up cause the dream, jeezy, Rihanna, Rick Ross and neyo were all the new fresh money makers of that era, and they never had budget issues.

yeah, i always took the older artists complaining about Jay with a grain of salt, cause them nikkas couldnt admit they were washed by that point...X talking bout Jay scared of competition...
from 06 DMX?...WORD?

nikkas was checking for LL and that Afrika Bambatta remake with JLO? Jay the reason that shyt aint pop?

 

[Cladyclad]

There were lots of complaints (Cameron , DMX, etc) saying they when jay was running def jams he didn't want to spend any money on promotion unless it was for himself


Jay replied " I'm not a business man, I'm a BUSINESS!, man. "

Def Jam barely had promo for Jay. Most of Jay promo was from outside. Budweiser, American Gangster etc...

 

[R.E.N. Spells Ren]

Complaining about not being invested in or properly promoted is not the same as complaining that someone snaked you out of your earnings.