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An album featuring the Black Keys and some of the biggest names in hip-hop will be released Nov. 27 2009 (the so-called “Black Friday” day after Thanksgiving) under the name Blakroc.

The project was spearheaded by rapper Jim Jones and also sports contributions from Mos Def, Q-Tip, RZA, Raekwon, Ludacris, Pharoahe Monch, NOE, Nicole Wray, Billy Danze and the late Ol’ Dirty Bastard.

This is too much of a rumor for Dame to even be talking about. And if it was true I wouldn’t be mad at Jay-Z for doing that after what Chris Brown did.

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Part 1 is below.

Some unreleased footage from back in the days.

Dame And Jim Jones Discuss Beef With Jay-Z

I think this played a big part in Jay-Z and Damon Dash breaking up.

VIDEO: Cam’ron Makes It Clear He Is Not Rhyming With Jim Jones Or Juelz Santana
VIDEO: This Is Jim Jones Chapter 2 (Also Jim Wants To Reunite Dipset )
Jim Jones Speaks On, “Pray IV Reign,” & Is Asked About Camron

Boom! Clark’s baby cousin Inga Marchand, p/k/a “Foxy Brown” made some noise and started a bidding war between Def Jam, Bad Boy, Elektra and a bunch of other labels. On the strength, they snatched her yung ass up for what would end up being the monster single “Ain’t No Nigga”. Damon played that single for me in his new offices, then located in the Wall Street area. Nigga was doing that goofy “Dame dance” with the mock dice roll even then. That record was a monster!!! Inga single handedly, in my opinion, saved Jay-Z’s career. Without her on that record, and Reasonable Doubt being Jay’s last shot, the world at large might have never heard of Shawn Carter. (Niggas don’t really put 2 and 2 together, realizing that Jay had been trying to get on since like 1987, ‘88, damn near close to 10 years before Reasonable Doubt!!!)

Reasonable Doubt dropped and sold gold out the gate. 500,000 units. Priority never expected that. Owed Dame $1,000,000.00 but couldn’t, wouldn’t pay up. Enter Irv Gotti, who snatched up the “Ain’t No Nigga” single for the “Nutty Professor” soundtrack. That led to Roc-a-fella eventually landing at Def Jam. The rest, as they say, is history. Let me set the record straight, here, and once and for all. Without Dame, there would be no Jay-Z. I know it. I said it. And I said it here.

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Damon Dash’s former attorney talks about the early days of Roc A Fella records, an interesting read. I think its outlandish to say Hov would of never blew up without Damon Dash. Jay-Z will say well make another Hov, which I think he is trying to do with Jim Jones.

The rap mogul has been making headlines with his money struggles in recent months; he is facing foreclosure on his two properties in the trendy TriBeCa area of New York and reportedly owes $2 million (£1.4 million) in state taxes, among other debts. To make matters worse, his designer wife of four years, Rachel Roy, filed for divorce earlier this month.

“My mistake was watching everyone else’s careers and not watching mine.” Dash insists he spent too long planning Jones’ career breakthrough – and that has cost him dear. He adds, “After being able to settle my wife’s company, I was able to start doing other things. My first approach was the music business and getting with Jim Jones… I spent the last six months doing research, trying to figure out how to use all my resources to blow this out (make his album a hit).”

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You got to be selfish to be successful, people won’t have your back like you got theirs. Looks like the wife dipped when the money got low(Put On Jay-Z – When The Money Goes).