I'm much more concerned with Mos Def than I am the Clipse. The two most high profile recent signings to Kanye's GOOD Music are Mos Def and the Clipse. Was there really Hennessy in that bottle? Someone get Joe Jackson on the phone. He may have even pulled that stunt he pulled on purpose, for that very reason. The death of his clothing line before it was even born - as if it was one of Drew Barrymore's children - was blamed on the incident at last year's VMAs, but, as I explained in a post here a while back, I suspect that the real reason was because the clothes didn't look like anything a straight guy would wear, and the TIs who really owned the company got nervous and cut off the funding. And even if he dead, it would probably be for the best if he had minimal involvement with the designs. It's not like he has a clothing line coming out. But I'm sure he spends a shedload of money, flying around the world to fashion shows with the team of teh ghey guys he travels with, for no apparent reason. Graduation sold something like a million copies in a week, in a week when a 50 Cent album came out (hey, it may have cut into his sales some.), and I seem to recall reading that 808s & Heartbreak sold way better than you'd think, to hear the songs on it. It's not like he should be hurting for money. I don't know if Kanye West needs the money, or if signing all of the best acts from around the time Mike Bigga's car rolled off the assembly line is an ego thing, or what it.
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(I kid.) Those stories were full of people who don't have very extensive discographies but supposedly still made a lot of money anyway. That was the impression that I got from reading Combat Jack's top 25 exercises in name dropping, or whatever it was called, over at Complex. If you never end up releasing an album, because it turns out there was no business case for it, I'm pretty sure you don't even have to pay them back. Even if they weren't really interested, it might still be worth it, for that check they give you when you sign, which they aren't really giving you per se, but you could still go out and spend it on champagne and strippers just the same. You could have your pick of once big name rappers from back when people still bought CDs - if you could talk them into making another go at a career in rap music. Like, if you were Eminem, whose album just got knocked out of the top 5 but still managed to sell more copies last week - its umpteenth week in stores - than most rap albums sell their first week out these days.
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