He was an Artist and a large one before JANET.

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Don’t forget the Basketball sports team, Jay Z is the perfect example of the Mogul to be, sort of, as an executive he has a shaky record, you may say, Rocafella had things on lock, not really, Jay Z, had things on lock and the Roc rode with him, they didn’t add, Beans (3 Albums), Free (2 ALBUMS), Bleek (3 OR 4), State Prop (2) Dame (1) Young Gunz (2) Soundtracks (1) never really sold, maybe all of them add up to about 10 million records, and that is great but to say your “TEAM” ran the game you need more than that in the words of Hov ‘Men Lie, Woman Lie, Numbers Don’t”

So what is a great run for a team, no team has ever had a real run, maybe the closes is Bad Boy with Puff at the helm, Ma$e, Black Rob, Total, 112, Carl Thomas, Faith Evans, Dream, Puffy, Biggie all had big songs and Platinum selling albums, that was a run, maybe the strongest, ever.

Now back to the Making of A Mogul, Jay Z, he is the best for this example, made strategic moves along the way to the top, he got rid of his old guys and made himself, solo king, taking all the responsibility, after the Roc implosion, he put out Kanye, Young Gunz, Bleek, Tiera Marie, Himself, now he hit and Kanye hit but the rest was nothing, but Kanye became a cultural icon, so it was not looked at as a failure but if you are batting 40% in music, that is not good, oh yeah he dropped a DJ Clue album but it did nothing, followed by another 2 from himself and 2 from Kanye, now the numbers from him and Ye was a great thing, now Def Jam was not so, NeYo big with 2 albums, Rihanna become an international star, Mariah came back, Rick Ross, Jeezy, Fabolous, so it was a good run on some front, but LL, Roots, Meth, Red and anyone on Def Jam before he got there, so that is a 50/50 thing for Jay.

His business empire by the way just grew and grew, Rocawear ’80 Mill in about 18 months you could BS with rap if you want” how about 120 Mill to sale

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