I’m not sure what either point has to do with Jay/Roc Nation being a better fit IMO than Shady. I posted what you quoted before I knew it was just Benny. Knowing it’s just Benny makes me want to double down. And I know a few artists that work with RN that are happy, and it’s hard to find many Shady artists that ever were happy.
But to answer your question, I’m sure the Shady/Interscooe machine helped G-Unit. Did they open the doors for the wave? I don’t know. G-Unit made themselves dope on the mixtape scene prior to, but there’s no question that Em helped. It was also a totally different era.
And yeah. The Roc pretty much fell apart. But there was a lot of friction between Jay and Cam and in hindsight The Roc was never destined to keep going much longer than it did. Rocafella has been dead for so long I’m not sure what it has to do with Benny or Griselda today.
Well none of us know what the Jay association is yet, this is all speculation. I was going off your quote with the assumption if Griselda left Shady. Em aligns with street sensation...a few years later that street sensation becomes super big. Jay aligns with street sensation and Jay And Dame split and Kanye becomes superbig instead.
And yes we are in a different era...I havent seen Roc Nation as a label breakout any new artists....They fukk with artists who already made noise for themselves. Shady on the other nand had that rapper Bogie who had zero buzz in hip hop doing numbers on Youtube from the Shady affiliation. Off the top that tells me Griseldas numbers will surpass Bogie being alligned with Shady.