5 Grand;c-10093432 said:
There's another way of looking at the situation.
I haven't been to any Roc Nation concerts, but maybe he's just an opening act for Jay Z.
It makes perfect sense. Jay Z can book stadium tours but he needs an opening act. If Jay Electronica is signed to Roc Nation maybe thats what he signed up for, to be Jay Z's opening act.
If Jay Electronica is Jay Z's opening act he's making more money touring than Joe Budden
It could be something more like this...
I can't remember if its a song or an interview
But I heard JayZ talking once, it went something like this:
"Right now there's some kid out there listening to JayZ, and he writing some shit. I mean he writing some nice shit, he gonna be the greatest. I'ma find him, and sign him, and never put his shit out"
I'm paraphrasing, but the gist of what he was saying, was he would sign an artist that he saw as a threat to dethroning him, and shelf him, so that artist will never surpass him