People were a little bit confused when it was said Jay-Z signed with both Sony and Atlantic.
Hov' clarified the situation in an interview with Billboard.
"Sony is Roc Nation. That's where Roc Nation's going through," Jay-Z told Billboard.com.
Regarding his upcoming album, "Blueprint 3," due September 11:
"That's pretty much just for this specific album. Roc Nation -- we're experts in marketing and making records. But we do distribution deals," he says. "On this one, we're working directly with the Atlantic staff, which is Julie [Greenwald], Lyor [Cohen], Kevin [Liles] and Kyse [Mike Kyser]. For the rest of the Roc Nation artists, we did a distribution deal with Sony."
Jay-Z also said he first approached Def Jam 4 years ago with the same distribution idea. "You have to figure, this is like four years ago, and to them it was just like, 'Are you crazy? No! Make a song!'" he said. "To me it was like, I've sold companies for huge amounts of money. I'm an entrepreneur -- that's what I've been all my life. I can't just sit here and make records and not do anything else. Why wouldn't you want to do this with me? I felt under-utilized."
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