Def Jam Records

“She auditioned for me and for Jay-Z. Jay-Z I'd hired as the president of Def Jam. Yeah. We signed her.”

“Actually, L.A. Reid, who had done your show had just dropped her from Def Jam. But, you know, she, in all fairness to L.A., she was a piano singer.”

“Actually, L.A. Reid, who had done your show had just dropped her from Def Jam.”

“It was Def Jam, which is ultimately where, where Logic's, Logic signed to probably a year, a little bit over a year after that, so.”

“Yeah, this is twenty-twelve. Yeah, no ID comes to you know, legendary producer who's, you know, new executive at Def Jam, and Def Jam in general, like, Def Jam Records, the most iconic hip-hop rap Label is willing to sign you, give you great money, give you cr…”

“We had sold a 100,000 tickets and X number of dollars in merch. So that's going to translate because it's fans who are invested in him, right?”

“It was Def Jam, which is ultimately where, where Logic's, Logic signed to probably a year, a little bit over a year after that, so.”

“And to say what Chris won't, they undershipped us. They didn't believe in us so much that they undershipped my album. And you had all these other huge artists with, you know, 400,000 plus CDs in stores, and I had fans going to Best Buys, having to have the wor…”

“If they're coming to shows and selling out Rooms across the country, and we're selling out shows all over Europe, they're gonna buy an album for seven 99.”

“Looking at a check and seeing, you know, lower six figures, very lower, just six figures in an advance, which is still great, and then literally going, okay, well, you know, after X, Y, and Z takes their percentage just on my team management and lawyer at that…”