Real Talk: How The Hell Did Jay-Z Get So Rich?

[LilJuicyTaco]

exactly i hear what the other poster is saying. this is true. you have to realize. jay was never a GRIMEY dude. nuccas from NO always look and act grimey.

master P was somewhere inbetween. i've chopped it up with dude personally. not on no personal stuff but i was at a kids hoop game my boy was coaching , back when romeo was a sr in high school. P was in the audience. a real cool dude. down to earth. he aint 100% ignant. thats how he got all that cash without snaking people to do it. he knew how to work with other people outside black folks. his downfall financially was him trying to actually do something the rest of these black moguls are afraid to death to do. and thats get off the breast milk(breast being Sony, universal, Warner Bros, Disney). and coming out with his own distribution. he put a lot of money and time into that. it didnt pan out. so it is what it is. he probably made other investments that never panned out either. look at 50. even though he can be okay around others even though he use to be a grimey NY dude. fif got most of his cash from ONE good investment. vita water. best investment move of his life. and the early success of gunit records, everyone going gold/plat.
thats it.

Fif hasnt made that kind of investment since.

yall have to remember. unlike fif. fif got put on a team and blew up the normal rapper way.

no one wanted JAY. he made his own way with his own label. which means what? he keeps his masters. which mean he's paidddddd in full for his own music yall love. thats how him and dame, biggs were balling out of control once biggie, 2pac past on. the thrown was open. and he snatched it.

you selling a Mil records owning your own masters is crazy money. no one else owned his publishing. it was the labels. his label. he, dame, biggs. cash ola.

so when beans came thru, he probably owned beans publishing like most labels do. mo money. then he did rocafella, great designers for that time and era. BLEW UP. mo MONEY.

so now jay has lets say 60 to 120 mil to play with and invest fail, and invest again. all the while still being an artist. now he's the pres of def jam(figure head). but still. they paid him right for that job. so he's getting crazy money just for sitting in the def jam big chair. does his albums thru def jam. gets mo money. then does the endorsement deals. because like he said. he was the one setting trends. or atleast he was the one everyone looked to. to push a trend out to the masses. its the same reason he's the Executive producer of NBA 2k13. everything right now is based on TRENDING. since jay cant stop trending. he will always be paid by someone to endorse their product or help boost their product. the same thing with the NJ nets thing. he's the loudest voice with that move to BK even though he only owns a super small portion of the nets. but he will have a clothing store up in there and something else in the arena building. probably a 40.40 club or something.

and lets not forget the book. and then getting with BEy just kept him trending forever. they are a power couple in the black community so for us they will trend forever. they are a power couple in the entertainment world. therefore they will trend forever. you may one day see a reality show with Be and Jigga in their 50's, looking all flabby and sick like the osbournes. hiphop is that deep into american culture. and jay and Bey with their hiphop/r&b/pop culture trending ability. they are icons. that will never cease. we will want to know what these people are up to when they're old and gray just like we do other star couples that are icon (sonny and cher) status.

The feds came after No Limit and 5o actually owns SMS Audio. What does Jay-Z own?

Def Jam owned his masters his entire career up until him and dame parted ways. Also dame still has the masters to reasonable Doubt. I know that will always be a thorn in Jay's side. If he gave it to Jay he would be back in the game over night.

White People: He worked hard.
Black People: He sold out, he sucked dikk, he sold out his people.

Threads like these gives a glimpse of the mentality holding back our people.
A dude smartening up is the worst kind of cat in the hood to these young fools and everyone could've been a professional athlete if he wanted to.

Sorry breh but he did time and time again: Forbez DVD Video: Beanie Sigel Said Jay-Z Was Taking Jadakiss Verses Off Songs Yrs Ago

Has it been proven that he worth that much? Up until recently yous thought he owned the nets.

 

[rapbeats]

The feds came after No Limit and 5o actually owns SMS Audio. What does Jay-Z own?

Def Jam owned his masters his entire career up until him and dame parted ways. Also dame still has the masters to reasonable Doubt. I know that will always be a thorn in Jay's side. If he gave it to Jay he would be back in the game over night.




Sorry breh but he did time and time again: Forbez DVD Video: Beanie Sigel Said Jay-Z Was Taking Jadakiss Verses Off Songs Yrs Ago

Has it been proven that he worth that much? Up until recently yous thought he owned the nets.

jigga owned his masters the moment he became the def jam prez. that was part of the deal. look at it like this. him owning his masters from day one means nothing. he's selling records. right then. masters mean something when you're aleady hot. and are on album #4 , 5, 6, 7 etc. and now albums 1, 2, 3 are getting play on movie soundtracks, commercials, halftime at sporting events, etc. people just now realizing how hot you are and wanting to go back and check your old stuff. you doing shows off that old stuff. you no longer have to get permission from the label, and cut them a check. you do it yourself and get paid all by yourself. he got his masters right on schedule. right when they would be worth that much. but def jam needed him as figure head more then they needed his masters. they have more then enough superstar masters for a lifetime over there .

 

[Harry B]

Sorry breh but he did time and time again: Forbez DVD Video: Beanie Sigel Said Jay-Z Was Taking Jadakiss Verses Off Songs Yrs Ago

Has it been proven that he worth that much? Up until recently yous thought he owned the nets.

1. Who the fukk thought Jay-z owned The Nets? I thought he owned 0.5 to 4% as it was reported for 8 years.
2. Kiss is Jays people now? If he wants a track he wants it. The fukk was Kiss to share it with Jay and Kells? Call it ruthless business if you're soft and business if you're not.

 

[rapbeats]

nice little article i found talking about jay and his business savvy.

Jay-Z: Master of Vertical Integration Strategy or Egomaniac?
Posted on June 25, 2012 by chantal
On his latest album, Intimate Moments, comedian Aziz Ansari recounts an outrageous fish-out-of-water story about a night he spent in an L.A. club with Kanye West and Jay-Z. At one point in the night, Jay-Z ordered a bottle of vodka made by his own company.

“He signed the tab and money went back into his own pocket,” Ansari joked.

All joking aside, Ansari’s tale is good for more than just a laugh. Jay-Z has leveraged his hip-hop career to become one of the most successful entrepreneurs in America. In addition to a successful music career which has seen him sell 50 million albums worldwide, he owns the clothing company Rocawear, Roc-A-Fella Records, the 40/40 Club and the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets basketball team.

His recent acquisition of the former New Jersey Nets sets up an interesting (and totally hypothetical, implausible) opportunity for the mogul to operate the first vertically integrated basketball team in NBA history.

Before we examine the finer points of this farcical situation, it’s probably best to be clear about the meaning of vertical integration strategy.

Vertical integration refers to a situation in which every element of a supply chain has a common owner. The most commonly referenced vertically integrated companies are Standard Oil and Carnegie Steel. The latter company owned the mills where the steel was made, the mines from which the iron ore was taken, the coal mines that provided coal and the ships and trains that transported the steel.

More recently, American Apparel has made itself an example of a balanced vertically integrated company, meaning that it owns the production and distribution of its clothes.

Jay-Z first act as owner of the Brooklyn Nets was to unveil the teams’ new design. He, of course, created the design, which is based on the old Brooklyn subway signs that once hung in New York. The will eventually need uniforms, which is where Rocawear enters the picture. The company’s revenue in Q1 2012 was about $88.5 million, so they can probably afford to throw a few uniforms to the players. Through the partnership of Jay-Z’s design skill and Rocawear’s clothing, the team has all of its merchandise handled easily.

For refreshments at the Nets games, fans can sip on Z’s Armadale Vodka and snack on food from the kitchen of the nearby 40/40 Club, of which Jay-Z is a part owner. Halftime shows would be a cinch, as Z could simply pull an artist from the Roc-A-Fella Records Roster.

Jay-Z might not be interested in vertical integration, but your company could benefit from integrating some or all of your supply chain. First, the ownership of some or all of the means of production ensures quality and consistency in the finished product. Vertically integrated companies are also able to iron out at least some of the wrinkles in their supply chain, ensuring a more efficient operation, and you don’t have to be a business mogul married to Beyonce to know that a more efficient supply chain is a great thing.

 

[LilJuicyTaco]

jigga owned his masters the moment he became the def jam prez. that was part of the deal. look at it like this. him owning his masters from day one means nothing. he's selling records. right then. masters mean something when you're aleady hot. and are on album #4 , 5, 6, 7 etc. and now albums 1, 2, 3 are getting play on movie soundtracks, commercials, halftime at sporting events, etc. people just now realizing how hot you are and wanting to go back and check your old stuff. you doing shows off that old stuff. you no longer have to get permission from the label, and cut them a check. you do it yourself and get paid all by yourself. he got his masters right on schedule. right when they would be worth that much. but def jam needed him as figure head more then they needed his masters. they have more then enough superstar masters for a lifetime over there .

That's what I said. The other guy thought he always owned them which he didn't.

 

[LilJuicyTaco]

1. Who the fukk thought Jay-z owned The Nets? I thought he owned 0.5 to 4% as it was reported for 8 years.
2. Kiss is Jays people now? If he wants a track he wants it. The fukk was Kiss to share it with Jay and Kells? Call it ruthless business if you're soft and business if you're not.

It was ANOTHER example of how he sold out his people. I could go on all day with similar stories. That's not hard work, diversifying his portfolio, good business moves, it's ruthless crab in a barrel business that he's done his entire career AGAINST his own people. Don't give me the usual music industry 'it's just business and that's how business works' talk.

 

[↓R↑LYB]

is this combined net worth wth beyonce or just him?

also he did have a very good record deal and sold A LOT of records, endorsments, etc.

but i'm sure he got a lot of that through savvy investments as well.

Beyonce is worth about 500 mill breh. Jay's marriage to Beyonce was extremely strategic. One it helped his career to be aligned with one of the biggest superstars on the planet, and 2 they're net worth is now combined. Together they're billionaires

Honestly, I give hov mad props for the transition he made. He went from just a dope ass rapper, to now being part of the aristocracy. There's a reason why you never really hear nothing bad about dude in the news.