Jay-Z took the young Bleek under his arm after he heard him rap. One time Jay asked Memphis Bleek what was he selling. Bleek showed drugs and Jay-Z took it and threw it in the incinerator. It was time for Young Memphis to step out on his own and his lead single showed he was ready.
With a DMX influenced style with the chant type hook with the catch phrase in the title. This was another uptempo type beat produced by Irv Gottie. Roc-A-Fella begin to expand. Disses back and forth between Jay-Z and Jadakiss implied a conflict between Jay and former groupmate DMX, led to a full-on war of words between Sigel and Kiss which had the mixtape world going crazy. Dash even attempted to give deals to Joe Budden and Twista.
Roc-A-Fella experienced its height in product releases and overall popularity as a brand name during this period, seeing the releases of State Property, Memphis Bleek, The Diplomats and Juelz Santana. Stories of the beef between Jay-Z and Dame Dash started to pop up. Both camps would deny the rumors and just kept handling Roc business. As President, Carter retained control of the Roc and his masters.
And I was the 1 being offered everything. I thought it was more than fair … And when that was turned down, I had to make a choice. He stood toe to toe with hip hop heavyweights on his album. Salute to you Memphis Bleek for the album and your contribution to the era of The Roc.
Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Manolo's presence has been heavily felt and praised by music critics and fans. Soon enough, Manolo caught the attention of several major record labels and execs, who tried recruit him with no success. Holding off on multiple deals that were on the table, Manolo made the ultimate decision to sign with Memphis Bleek 's Warehouse Music Group, a deal that was in the works for about four to five months according to Manolo.
With Manolo Rose becoming the latest rapper from New York to ink a deal, the Brooklyn native joins the crop of new NYC artists who are making a buzz in today's hip-hop. XXL : Tell us about the moment you signed the contract. What was it like to sign with the Roc? Manolo Rose : It was really tremendous man. It feels like it was just meant to be, you know? Because nobody from my neighborhood got signed to anything dealing with Jay Z since Memphis Bleek.
Just to be able to step upon those shoulders and follow those footsteps and be in that lineage just means a lot, says a lot about myself as well. How did the deal come about? Really just a conversation that Bleek had with Hov about bringing me over here.
How long did it take for you to get signed? When did the conversation start? But when they came to me, it probably took about 4 or 5 months to fully get done. I was still in the situation with Coke Boys, so I had to get out of that situation before I could make a move.
So you are no longer with Coke Boys? I'm no longer with Coke Boys. But we still cool, everything is still very good. Memphis reached out to you about this deal then? Yeah, he reached out to me. And for me, it just made me feel better because I believed in myself, because I had a lot of deals early on, but I trusted in myself and it all worked out.
Would you mind sharing what other record labels reached out to you? Interscope reach out to me first, Epic reached out, Republic, early on we was talking to the Blue Man Group, Def Jam very early on also. He even allowed me to use some of their stuff, recording and stuff.
The funny thing is when I told him I was signing to Roc Nation, he told me he just got a job over there, that they just hired him at Roc Nation when I was telling him I was going over there.
It all kind of stand together because me and him gained a real friendship and not even talking about music, but like talking to each other on some how your day going type of thing.
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