![]() Sometimes there was talk of a single deal, but whenever it got to the point where it was supposed to be real, the label would renege.” “None of them were f-king with us,” Jay writes in Decoded. “He had released that first album, Reasonable Doubt, on his own record label, with his business partner, Damon Dash. ![]() “He had spent eight years in the doldrums,” said Nick Raphael, the man who signed Jay to a world record deal with Northwestside Records. 23 on Billboard’s album chart, and wasn’t certified platinum ’til 2002.” Calling himself Jaÿ-Z, he set about crafting one of hip-hop’s most revered albums – although it wasn’t as highly-praised at the time.Īs XXL writes, the album sold “just 420,000 copies its first year out, peaking at No. On June 25th, 1996, the most prolific rapper of all-time made his debut as a 26-year-old former-crack-dealer-turned-emcee.
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