Joey Bada$$ Remembers Wanting Jay-Z To Manage Him Not Sign Him Before Joining Roc Nation

Joey Bada$$ been trending lately with his rap challenge to Kendrick Lamar and West Coast Hip-Hop. After dropping a buzzing freestlyle with Big Sean and Ab-Soul for Red Bull, Joey sits down with journalist Will Lavin to discuss his past ties with Best Rapper Alive, Jay-Z.




When asked about his days grinding it out in hip-hop, Joey remembers almost signing to Jay-Z Roc Nation imprint. Excited by the offer, Joey would decline as he wanted to take a different route. " I didn't necessarily opt to go the indie route; it was a chain of communication that I didn't have any part in," He tells Will. "You gotta understand, at that point I'm a 17-year-old kid from Brooklyn, that was the dream, the highest honor you can have. Jay is my favorite rapper, even to this day, and within a year of being in the game he wanted to sign me. But he didn't want to sign me as an artist, he wanted to manage me. I had a manager at the time and I always wonder if that's how it got botched."




Joey Bada$$ would eventually sign to Roc Nation in 2010 but acting would quickly overtake his original passion. Joey originally spoke on declining Jay-Z offer with DJ Whoo Kid. In a 2016 interview on SiriusXM's Shade 45, he recounted reading Decoded, Jay-Z's 2010 memoir.




One passage struck him: Jay sitting across from Russell Simmons at Def Jam, thinking, "I don't wanna be signed to this n***. I wanna be this n****."* Joey said that sentiment resonated deeply. "I kinda had that same perspective," he said. "But shoutout to Jay, because he was on it before most."




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IRobot made Bada$$ a sought-after actor, but it was his character Unique in Power that has defined him. Joey spoke highly of 50 Cent, who serves as executive producer of Power Book III: Raising Kanan. Joey respects 50 Cent's complexity..




"He's much smarter than people might think," he said. "Very multidimensional. He reminds me of myself-how he thinks, how he moves. It was dope to spend time with him and understand where his mind's at."




Joey Bada$$ continues to chart his own path, balancing a rap career with an expanding presence in film and television. But the weight of his early brushes with greatness-whether at a Roc Nation meeting or on a TV set with 50 Cent-still lingers.




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