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Maxy · 12-02-2005, 02:34 PM

Others stressed that it?s impossible to judge a record executive over a short period of time. ?For him to make the impact that he wants to make it?s definitely going to take two years,? Ahmir said. ?This is not an overnight thing. I know a lot of people are saying what happened with Young Gunz and Beanie and Freeway and Memphis and Teairra. But in order to really build a movement you?re gonna have to start from the ground up, so this is gonna take two years. Right now he?s dusting off the chess board and putting his chess pieces into position and then we?ll have the results of said positioning.?

Among the older Def Jam artists there?s been a little grumbling about having Jay as a boss. ?I think there?s an element of, now you?re telling me how to do my gig?? Reid says. ?More often than not they?ve conformed. But there?s absolutely a couple of people who don?t wanna hear it. They can leave. I won?t allow anyone to undermine him by being able to go around him. No one.? Reid said there?s one artist who?s unwilling to work with Jay who will be dropped. He wouldn?t say who but two high-placed industry insiders whispered that it?s DMX. DMX did not respond to numerous calls placed before he was incarcerated.

On this Friday Jay leaves the office around 6:30pm. As the Maybach flows back into New Jersey the phone rings. It?s Beyonce. He immediately starts teasing her. ?Houston ain?t ghetto!? he says. ?You told me Houston was ghetto. You ain?t tell me they got surfin down there in Houston. I saw SportsCenter.? This morning there was a report on people who surf waves made by oil tankers in the Gulf of Mexico. ?The water?s green. They got grass and white people. That ain?t ghetto. Let me find out you lyin, homie,? he adds, throwing in a little Southern twang to tease her even more. You can hear her laughing on the other end.

The Maybach stops in Teterboro, New Jersey, at the tiny Teterboro Airport where he boards a luxurious 13-seat G4 (he has an account with a popular time share jet company where the cost for 25 hours of flight time is around $300,000). Teairra Mari and a few friends join him for the 30 minute flight to Philadelphia. Al Green wafts from the speakers and the stewardesses smile while serving chicken wings and popcorn shrimp from the Cheesecake Factory. One stewardess calls Jay, ?Mr. Combs,? but who cares. He?s going to see his girl perform. This?ll be his third time seeing Destiny?s Child on this tour.

When the stewardess offers Jay a glass of wine he?s like a character from Sideways. He examines the cork, but doesn?t smell it, then holds the glass by the stem, not the bowl because, he explains, if you hold it by the bowl then the heat from your fingers changes how the wine tastes. He swirls it, looks to see if it has legs, then takes a sip, careful to wash it on his tongue. He swallows. Everyone awaits his judgement. He looks at the stewardess and says, ?fcukin disgusting.? Then he winks. ?Nah, I?m just playin.?

He arrives at the Philadelphia Spectrum ten minutes before the show starts, dips backstage to say hi to B before she goes on, then, when the house lights go down, he slips into the crowd and takes a place by the sound board to watch the show. As artists the two could hardly be more different. Beyonce?s dramatic onstage, wearing billowing colored fabrics that glitter and shine for the back row. Jay?s understated onstage, dancing little if at all, kindof just standing there, alpha male style, too cool to dance. She stalks the stage, throws her hair, moves with abandon. His onstage manner seems like he?s barely performing at all. But don?t dare suggest that he?s not an entertainer. Another night, at the 40/40 Club, the Manhattan sports bar he owns, Jay sat with a roomfull of friends, including Usher, arguing about who are the top five MCs of the 80s and the 90s. (From the 80s Jay said #1 Rakim, #2 KRS-One, #3 Big Daddy Kane, #4 Kool G Rap, and #5 LL Cool J, and from the 90s #1 Biggie, #2 Tupac, #3 Nas, #4 Ice Cube, and #5 Scarface.) Then Usher suggested everyone in the group rank their top five entertainers, meaning R&B acts. When some people walked into the room in the middle of the conversation they were confused by the purview encompassed by ?entertainers.? I explained, ?by entertainers we mean non-rappers,? and Jay exploded with indignant laughter, all but offended by this. ?Rappers aren?t entertainers?? he said. ?I destroyed the Garden!? He?s so understated onstage you wouldn?t think he considers himself an entertainer, but he does.

Back in Philly, Beyonce, Kelly, and Michelle perform for over two hours and when they reach the final number, Jay and his crew camp out in the group?s dressing room. As everyone waits for the girls, Jay makes a beat by hitting his hands against the couch, then tells Teairra Mari she?s got to sing to his beat. She refuses, claiming to be shy, so he says she?s got to add something to the beat. She adds a little beatbox with her mouth, then he turns to the next person, telling each member of the crew they?ve got to add to the beat, add something, making sure each person gets involved like the beat conductor, or the party coordinator. Once everyone?s adding something he guides the impromptu instrumental to a big ending and then blam, it?s over. A moment later, in walks Beyonce. The girls end each show under a waterfall, so she shlumps in wearing a thick black robe and big fuzzy slippers, her hair flat like she?s just gotten out of the shower. Her shoulders are sagging and her feet are dragging but there?s a big proud-of-herself smile on her face. Jay leads the gang to applaud her. She quickly changes into jeans, a t-shirt, and a black baseball hat, braids her hair, then comes out and gives Jay a light, brief hug, her head burrowing into his chest for a quick second. She leaves the Spectrum with Jay and his crew and flies back to New York with them, her feet up on the seat like a girl, but her voice low from a long night of singing. They?re careful to not be demonstrative in public, but spend some time around them and you?ll see all the hallmarks of a close, committed couple: they?re physically playful, they eat oxtail off the same plate, she?s often giggling at something he?s said, they can talk with just their eyes. One night he greets her by playfully pantomiming that he?s punching her in the ribs while never actually touching her as she giggles from the close attention. He continues to refuse to talk about his relationship, but told me he wants to have kids at some point in the next five years.

12-02-2005, 02:34 PM
Maxy Confirmed User Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: NYC Posts: 1,858	Others stressed that it?s impossible to judge a record executive over a short period of time. ?For him to make the impact that he wants to make it?s definitely going to take two years,? Ahmir said. ?This is not an overnight thing. I know a lot of people are saying what happened with Young Gunz and Beanie and Freeway and Memphis and Teairra. But in order to really build a movement you?re gonna have to start from the ground up, so this is gonna take two years. Right now he?s dusting off the chess board and putting his chess pieces into position and then we?ll have the results of said positioning.? Among the older Def Jam artists there?s been a little grumbling about having Jay as a boss. ?I think there?s an element of, now you?re telling me how to do my gig?? Reid says. ?More often than not they?ve conformed. But there?s absolutely a couple of people who don?t wanna hear it. They can leave. I won?t allow anyone to undermine him by being able to go around him. No one.? Reid said there?s one artist who?s unwilling to work with Jay who will be dropped. He wouldn?t say who but two high-placed industry insiders whispered that it?s DMX. DMX did not respond to numerous calls placed before he was incarcerated. On this Friday Jay leaves the office around 6:30pm. As the Maybach flows back into New Jersey the phone rings. It?s Beyonce. He immediately starts teasing her. ?Houston ain?t ghetto!? he says. ?You told me Houston was ghetto. You ain?t tell me they got surfin down there in Houston. I saw SportsCenter.? This morning there was a report on people who surf waves made by oil tankers in the Gulf of Mexico. ?The water?s green. They got grass and white people. That ain?t ghetto. Let me find out you lyin, homie,? he adds, throwing in a little Southern twang to tease her even more. You can hear her laughing on the other end. The Maybach stops in Teterboro, New Jersey, at the tiny Teterboro Airport where he boards a luxurious 13-seat G4 (he has an account with a popular time share jet company where the cost for 25 hours of flight time is around $300,000). Teairra Mari and a few friends join him for the 30 minute flight to Philadelphia. Al Green wafts from the speakers and the stewardesses smile while serving chicken wings and popcorn shrimp from the Cheesecake Factory. One stewardess calls Jay, ?Mr. Combs,? but who cares. He?s going to see his girl perform. This?ll be his third time seeing Destiny?s Child on this tour. When the stewardess offers Jay a glass of wine he?s like a character from Sideways. He examines the cork, but doesn?t smell it, then holds the glass by the stem, not the bowl because, he explains, if you hold it by the bowl then the heat from your fingers changes how the wine tastes. He swirls it, looks to see if it has legs, then takes a sip, careful to wash it on his tongue. He swallows. Everyone awaits his judgement. He looks at the stewardess and says, ?fcukin disgusting.? Then he winks. ?Nah, I?m just playin.? He arrives at the Philadelphia Spectrum ten minutes before the show starts, dips backstage to say hi to B before she goes on, then, when the house lights go down, he slips into the crowd and takes a place by the sound board to watch the show. As artists the two could hardly be more different. Beyonce?s dramatic onstage, wearing billowing colored fabrics that glitter and shine for the back row. Jay?s understated onstage, dancing little if at all, kindof just standing there, alpha male style, too cool to dance. She stalks the stage, throws her hair, moves with abandon. His onstage manner seems like he?s barely performing at all. But don?t dare suggest that he?s not an entertainer. Another night, at the 40/40 Club, the Manhattan sports bar he owns, Jay sat with a roomfull of friends, including Usher, arguing about who are the top five MCs of the 80s and the 90s. (From the 80s Jay said #1 Rakim, #2 KRS-One, #3 Big Daddy Kane, #4 Kool G Rap, and #5 LL Cool J, and from the 90s #1 Biggie, #2 Tupac, #3 Nas, #4 Ice Cube, and #5 Scarface.) Then Usher suggested everyone in the group rank their top five entertainers, meaning R&B acts. When some people walked into the room in the middle of the conversation they were confused by the purview encompassed by ?entertainers.? I explained, ?by entertainers we mean non-rappers,? and Jay exploded with indignant laughter, all but offended by this. ?Rappers aren?t entertainers?? he said. ?I destroyed the Garden!? He?s so understated onstage you wouldn?t think he considers himself an entertainer, but he does. Back in Philly, Beyonce, Kelly, and Michelle perform for over two hours and when they reach the final number, Jay and his crew camp out in the group?s dressing room. As everyone waits for the girls, Jay makes a beat by hitting his hands against the couch, then tells Teairra Mari she?s got to sing to his beat. She refuses, claiming to be shy, so he says she?s got to add something to the beat. She adds a little beatbox with her mouth, then he turns to the next person, telling each member of the crew they?ve got to add to the beat, add something, making sure each person gets involved like the beat conductor, or the party coordinator. Once everyone?s adding something he guides the impromptu instrumental to a big ending and then blam, it?s over. A moment later, in walks Beyonce. The girls end each show under a waterfall, so she shlumps in wearing a thick black robe and big fuzzy slippers, her hair flat like she?s just gotten out of the shower. Her shoulders are sagging and her feet are dragging but there?s a big proud-of-herself smile on her face. Jay leads the gang to applaud her. She quickly changes into jeans, a t-shirt, and a black baseball hat, braids her hair, then comes out and gives Jay a light, brief hug, her head burrowing into his chest for a quick second. She leaves the Spectrum with Jay and his crew and flies back to New York with them, her feet up on the seat like a girl, but her voice low from a long night of singing. They?re careful to not be demonstrative in public, but spend some time around them and you?ll see all the hallmarks of a close, committed couple: they?re physically playful, they eat oxtail off the same plate, she?s often giggling at something he?s said, they can talk with just their eyes. One night he greets her by playfully pantomiming that he?s punching her in the ribs while never actually touching her as she giggles from the close attention. He continues to refuse to talk about his relationship, but told me he wants to have kids at some point in the next five years. __________________ SIG TOO BIG! Maximum 120x60 button and no more than 3 text lines of DEFAULT SIZE and COLOR. Unless your sig is for a GFY top banner sponsor, you may use a 624x80 instead of a 120x60. Let me repeat... 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