Kanye contracts SUMMARY: Apart from the inducement which Kanye had to sign to get his advances. This shows that Jay Z sold the masters to first 6 @kanyewest’s albums just so he could get his own back. He did so knowing Def Jam won’t sell them back to Kanye in future. That’s BEEF!

He owns album 7-10 but the most lucrative and most critically acclaimed albums are owned by Roc-A-Fella which is wholly owned by Def Jam... The majors will never sell you your masters because that’s what gives them market share and drives profits and Jay Z knew that. @SizweDhlomo

This is why Dame says Jigga ain’t shit...

In the end Kanye is mad that even as a billionaire he stands no chance of owning his best work or earning more than 18% of the proceeds from his genius forever. If they were in Jay’s hands he could at least buy them back or negotiated a better deal or at least added a reversion!

In the end Dame & Biggs took the shortest end of the stick they possibly could to at least own a small part of their empire and that’s Jay Z’s sacred debut which they share with him while Kanye will never have any ownership of the quoted College Dropout, his Grammy-winning debut!

In the end Jay Z’s picture perfect legacy will forever be tainted by this in perpetuity, like the like to say in the record business. At least Kanye is a billionaire and Rihanna will be a billionaire soon soon. Not even Mandela was a saint!