Cx1DJs We Do Things Different Podcast "Untold Stories of Jay-Z" hosted by DJButterrock

Cx1DJs We Do Things Different Podcast "Untold Stories of Jay-Z" hosted by DJButterrock Shawn Corey Carter (born December 4, 1969), known professionally as Jay-Z,[a] is an American rapper, businessman, and record executive.[8] He was named the greatest rapper of all time by Billboard and Vibe in 2023.[9] Rooted in East Coast hip-hop, Jay-Z is known for his complex lyricism that often uses double entendres, wordplay, and braggadocio. His music is built on a rags to riches narrative. He is the wealthiest musical artist in history, worth US$2.8 billion as of 2026.[10][11]

A protégé of fellow New York City-based rapper Jaz-O, Jay-Z began recording music in the late 1980s. He co-founded Roc-A-Fella Records in 1994 to release his first two studio albums, Reasonable Doubt (1996) and In My Lifetime, Vol. 1 (1997), both of which were critically acclaimed. His 11 subsequent albums, including The Blueprint (2001), The Black Album (2003), American Gangster (2007), and 4:44 (2017), have each debuted atop the Billboard 200. Jay-Z has a total of 14 number-one albums on the chart, the joint-third most in history. He topped the Billboard Hot 100 on four occasions: once as a lead artist with his 2009 single "Empire State of Mind" (with Alicia Keys), and three times with his guest performances on the singles "Heartbreaker" (1999) by Mariah Carey, "Crazy in Love" (2003) by Beyoncé, and "Umbrella" (2007) by Rihanna.[12]

Jay-Z served as president and chief executive officer of Def Jam Recordings from 2004 to 2007,[13] during which he helped launch the careers of successful artists including Kanye West, Rihanna, and Ne-Yo. He co-founded Rocawear, a clothing retailer, in 1999,[14] and founded the 40/40 Club, a luxury bar chain, in 2003. As both grew into multi-million-dollar businesses, he launched Roc Nation, a multi-disciplinary entertainment agency, in 2008. In 2015, he acquired the technology company Aspiro and led the expansion of its media streaming service Tidal.[15][16][17] Through his business ventures, Jay-Z became the first hip-hop billionaire in 2019.[18][19] After Block, Inc. (then Square, Inc.) acquired a majority stake in Tidal in March 2021, Jay-Z joined its board of directors.[20][21]

One of the best-selling music artists with 140 million records sold, Jay-Z has won 25 Grammy Awards, the eighth-most of all time and the second-most of any hip-hop artist.[22] He is the recipient of the NAACP's President's Award and three Emmy Awards (including two Primetime Emmy Awards), in addition to being nominated for a Tony Award. Ranked by Billboard as the highest-grossing American hip-hop touring act, Jay-Z was the first rapper to be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame[23] and the first solo living rapper inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Time named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2013.[24]

Early life and education

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:00

Gotta make sure we had the damn chat room back. Don't worry, we had a 10 o'clock. We can fuck up a little bit. CX1 DJs, we do things different podcasts. We back on Untold Stories of Jay-Z. All right. Shit. We back. Hold on. Let me make sure this shit is paused. God damn it. Pause, pause, pause. Pause that shit. Shit moving in the fast, goddamn, moving in the right direction. All right, CX1 DJs Untold Stories of Jay-Z. But we also got the top of the day. We're going to be talking about what's going on new and what's going on in the world today. I want to tell everybody how you're doing and thank you. And I appreciate everybody for joining me. And we do got the tap. I told, I said, chat, we got to shut this shit down. The chat room ain't fucking working. So they got the chat room working. Now y'all go get back to chatting. I said, nah, we gotta we gotta make sure this chat room is working in this motherfucker. So I usually don't want to shut down on fucking show, but you know, when I had people from Rock Nation say, yo, we try to say we was checking in, and it wouldn't work. I said, no, we gotta we gotta start the live over. And then my uh video wasn't working on my end, so that shit was fucked up. The devil be working, the devil be working. And I had to have a meeting with my people. They said, Butter Rock, we need, I guess we need another program because this this is fucking me up. When we get people on here and then we gotta shut down and start back up, it it it kind of fucks me up. And I don't like it. One thing I don't like, I don't like starting over. I don't like starting over in life. I just don't like starting over, period. Especially when we shut if people really paying attention, I say, come back, I gotta shut the live down. And I I had to make sure that this thing goes good. But don't worry, we're not going past 10 o'clock. We it's 8.55, so we, you know, we good. And and and and only bad about starting over, you gotta go through all the shit that I just did all over again, which I don't have a fucking problem doing it. Aside the other bullshit, we ain't gonna get to that, but we we will get into all the the announcements. Let's talk about the conference, all right? The CX1 DJ's 2026 music conference. I have a lot of special guests that I'm bringing out my damn self. And I think it's gonna be very, very special to certain people that never met no fucking rapper or or well, I think most ladies met male strippers and shit. I got some of the baddest male strippers coming from North Carolina and South Carolina and Georgia and Florida. We went ahead and booked the we want the ladies to spend their money to actually enjoy themselves. But then we have some, then, and then we getting we're getting um kicked back because we got Christian rappers that's gonna be there. So I said, you know what, I gotta really second guess the male strippers. No, I just think we're just gonna do that on a particular day when we don't have the Christian rappers. Because we do we are gonna have a couple of Christian rappers there. Um so I'm gonna, I guess I do that on a day that um we don't we don't have that. Shout out Lawandia checking back in. I appreciate that. Yeah, we had to shut the live down because we could no one could type inside the goddamn thing. So that's what that's what happened last week. People was getting on and they couldn't they couldn't leave a comment. And um Chad said he was shutting it down to restart the damn chat box, but that shit didn't it it wouldn't restart the damn thing. I'm like, god damn, what was what the fuck? But um on on a good note, we got a good untold story, so we're gonna finish. So Fulio Coolio, Julio Fulio. I'm just gonna call him Fulio. This young brother right here. You see the picture, he passed away. He got killed. A couple of young brothers got in their feelings and they killed him. And unfortunately, over rap music. So he died over rap music. He died over everybody beeping. Well, they say Fulio, he killed the mother niggas people. So you look at the young brother, you just just just take a look at him. I'm gonna I'm gonna be I'm gonna do a moment. Shout out to DJ Money, check it back in. I appreciate you, money. I think I think uh uh uh T Cap somewhere, you know, I don't know what T Cap doing. I called me in answer. Shout out to T-Cap wherever he had in the world. So let's talk about Fulio Folio Fulio. I don't know how to say this nigga name, RP to him. But one thing I will say about Fulio, who is it? Coolio, Fulio, how the hell you say I don't know how to say this nigga name, but he's dead. RP to him. T Cap, how you say this brother's name? Fulio, Julio, Fulio, how do you how do you say his name, bro? Fulio, Coolio, Julio, Fulio? I ain't trying to fuck them because the brother is not here on earth. How do you say his name? T Cap know the nickname. Well, we're just gonna call him Fulio. So the young brothers in Florida got sentenced to life all four of them. They gone. And the girl, one of the girls that would help them plan the murder, and these all rappers. This ain't these ain't um what the hell? Yeah. These are T Cap, his name is Fullio. What you wrote? What the hell you wrote? Yeah, anyway. These are rappers. And what happened was there was beefing with the other side. Okay, and then it it then they went to Tampa and they took it out of Tampa. And they from Jacksonville, so they drew an hour and a half to two hours to kill this nigga on his birthday. Who the hell dies on their birthday? That's some sad shit. Who the fuck dies on their birthday? That shit could happen to you, though. You out here wilding and acting crazy. That shit could happen. RP to him, but I'm gonna tell you everybody be out here crashing now. And uh not knowing that the last crash could be your ass. So uh, you know, you crash, you crash out, and that's what happened. And we're gonna say R.I.P. to him and uh hope his family get justice, which I'm quite sure they will. And I got the chat box working, so anybody want to talk shit? There, there you go. You have all freedom, freedom of speech to talk shit in the chat box. You can do whatever you want to do, Scooby Doo. And I told Chad, do not block nobody. We want to see niggas that they got something to say, say it. And um, we ain't blocking nobody. We I said, no, no, don't block nobody in that motherfucker. He said, Nah, the chat box don't working. So shout out to YouTube for making sure we back on here and the chat box working. I think we got up to seven people, but don't worry, the Jay-Z. We're gonna get to the Jay-Z, but we gotta get into the news. So, yeah, his his his murder has got all them got life. One of the light skinned nigga, the the the the the young light skinned nigga started crying. No, nigga, don't cry now, nigga. Don't cry now, nigga. Don't cry now. Don't cry now. Cry y'all. Cat, let's talk about Kevin Hart and Cat Williams. They back together. They get, you know, they did the road on uh Kevin Hart, and then they got back together, and and now they friends. They said, we're gonna go on the road together. I actually saw that show. I was uh actually in a in at work and I was watching this shit on the big screen. I said, that's good. These brothers are back together. They both too, they both funny in their own right. But I love I love me some Cat Williams, and I damn sure like Kevin Hart. Kevin Hart is one of the ones that that that that came from the dirt and where he's at now. That's a beautiful thing. And my prompter wasn't working either. So I was trying to go to the each video, each picture we're gonna do our story on before we start the untold stories, but the damn prompter was not working. I was having problems today. The devil is working, the devil is working. Yeah. Let's talk about puppy. Puppy's not coming home. Everybody, I was I was rooting for puppy. I said, Puppy's puppy daddy's gonna have the hummer for the goddamn summer. Now puppy is stuck in jail. They got it, they got him on some other charges. Uh, not charges, but it's someone else is suing this nigga. And and the judge did not appeal, they did not accept his appeal. How the fuck? This has been like almost two months ago. I told Puppy, I told my man, I said, T Cap, Puppy is coming home. Puppy is still in jail. I don't think puppy coming home to three and a half years. And I would, uh, I what you asked me would I go to a Diddy party, I would, I probably would have gone to a Diddy party. I would have taken DJ Money with me. With me and Money and T Cap, we would have gone to a Diddy party. Who wouldn't go? Who the niggas lying? Who wouldn't go to a Diddy party? Nigga, I will go to a D party and Diddy ain't even at the party, I'll still go to a Diddy party. Yeah, I sure will. Definitely right now, I'll go to a goddamn Diddy party. Long as the females say, he had some bad pictures of the come on now, y'all. Punkfoot. Look at Punkafoot. OnlyFans. Join the new Punkerfoot OnlyFans. All right. Go to OnlyFans and go search for Punkerfoot. It's P-U-N-K-K-I-N-F-O-O-T and 404. Punk a foot only fans. Y'all go join that. Oh, you know, all you horny niggas. Go ahead and support it. Go ahead and make about she could make about foot fifty hundred grand on OnlyFans. Y'all go ahead and join it. Don't worry, it's only 1999. Who don't got 1999 to see some ass? Go ahead and join Punkinfoot, the new OnlyFans page. Well, it ain't new, but go ahead and join it. And we will be promoting that. And we're gonna show y'all niggas. That's how you promote when you get some ads. You want you trying to get money? Look at that flyer. It's Punkinfoot. And you can you can scan that barcode with your phone and go and join a y'all niggas need to get a good membership. Punkinfoot's OnlyFans. Go join the Chocolate Bunny on OnlyFans. It's OnlyFans Punkinfoot 404. Her OnlyFan page is OnlyFans Punk and Foot 404. Now we're gonna get to the Jay-Z. This is the moment you niggas was waiting for. Hova, Jika Chika, Jika Man. Now Jay-Z is one of my you crazy bunny. Jay-Z is one of my top rappers. I love Jay-Z. He's one of my top. He's one of the top rappers that one of my top fives. Everybody got that top five. Everybody say, oh, that's my top five. No, no, no. Jay-Z is my top five. Jigger Man is my top five. I'm gonna see. I got, I'm gonna be honest. It's gonna be Rock Him. Let's do my top five now. Let me get my ass positioned. Rock Him. Cooji rap. I would have said Big Daddy King, but he shitted on me, so fuck Big Daddy King. Sorry, Kane. So instead of Big Daddy King, Bizmarkey, take your fucking place. Who else? Damn, who else? Eminem. And then Jay-Z. That's it. I like Eminem. Yeah, I love Eminem. The white boy gets bit. That's real hip-hop. That's broke. I gave y'all my top five niggas. Eminem made my top five. Big Daddy King was in there, but he fucking was on some bitch shit. These niggas get old and got on some bitch shit. So Big Daddy King is not a part of my top five. Not at all. I love Big Daddy King, but Jay-Z is definitely one of my top five rappers. Let's let's get into some shit that you niggas don't know. So Jazz Oh is the reason that Jay-Z is here today. And I interviewed Jazz O not too long ago, like about three years ago. Yeah, yeah. I had I interviewed Jazz on a CX1 DJ Comics call. I sure did. So Jazz is the reason why Jay-Z is here. I don't know if y'all remember I interviewed Jazz. And he talked about how he brought Jay-Z on the road with him back in the 1980s. 1980. So Jay-Z has been doing this a long time. He'd been overseas way before people know what overseas was. The rapping fast shit was not popular back when Jay-Z got into the shit. People looked at him like he was a he was goofy. Like, nigga, nobody wants to hear that rapping fast shit. So they wasn't really fucking with Jay-Z back in the day. The rapping fast, you know, they were more into the Rock Helm and Big Daddy King shit. And Jazz Z had the slow flow. Jay-Z was rapping fast. Now, I love Jay-Z, but this is an untold story. So I gotta give you some untold stories. So the untold stories is that Jay-Z. Now Jay-Z denied this, and his people denied this, but I was told to say what I'm saying now. That Jazz O said that Jay-Z stole his style. Rockefeller, Roc Nation said that's not true. He had to slow it down to get change with the times. He had to fruit nick and shit, and he had to slow it down to change with the times. So everybody everybody needs to understand that Jay-Z. Hold on for a minute, y'all. Jay-Z is definitely ahead of his time. When a lot of rappers was trying to figure out who the hell they was, y'all gotta excuse me. I'm running the board and everything. Jay-Z had, and he knew exactly the direction he was going in. When everybody was trying to find a fucking way. So we gotta give it up for Jay-Z on that. Now, the the the rumor that he stole Jazz O flow, that's been going on for yeah. So that meant that ain't untold. Let's tell a story that is untold. Jazz O had Jay-Z on the road. He paid for every damn thing. But Jay-Z, as he made it, he gave Jazz Opportunity to be signed to Rock Nation, and Jazz turned down the deal that Jay-Z was trying to give him. Let me give y'all some shit that you can't look up on Google. I get information you ain't gonna find on no motherfucking Google. Well, you Google searching niggas. Alright. So once Jay-Z got in position, he offered Jazz a position with Rockefeller. Cause Jazz did not like Damon Dash. So he turned down the offer to be a part of The Rock. That ain't public known. But Jazz O was also signed to Jive Records the time that Jay-Z was going up the ladder. He had a multi-million dollar deal with J Records. We're talking back in the late 80s to early 90s because Jay-Z didn't really start picking up with Rock Rock Rock Rock Rockefeller into like '94. Bunch of mixtapes, bunch of features with Big E and everybody else, but Rockefeller was picking up at the same time that Biggie was picking up. Jay-Z and Biggie was neck and neck on how going up that fucking ladder of success. So you had you you you had Biggie, you had Jay-Z. You had Jay-Z, you had Biggie. So that's why a lot of people say, oh, it's kind of it's kind of strange how Biggie got killed. We think Jay-Z has something to do with Jay-Z had nothing to do with what happened to Biggie Smalls. But you know what? You got a conspiracy theories, niggas. They swear that Jay-Z has something to do with a lot of people being dead out here. Untold stories of Jay-Z. So we're gonna we're gonna get into this. We're gonna, we're gonna, we're, we're gonna, we're gonna get a little deeper into this. So Jazz did not like Damon Dash. And you might ask yourself, who do like Damon Dash? Mr. Dash did not get along with a lot of people. Mr. Dash was depending on my saying, when no one wanted to fuck with Jay-Z. And I'm not here, we we love Jay-Z. So, but we're gonna do an untold story, and I check with Rock Nation. They they they want they like be I like being myself. And when the the fact when you can't be yourself, it ain't fun no more. So let's get into it. So I'm always gonna be myself. I don't give a fuck who I piss off. But um, but I'm not gonna piss off the people I'm doing uh unto giving flowers to. I would never do that. I I would never uh and I will not piss off nobody that's showing me love. We we're not doing that. But I will say this if someone says you ain't no one wanted to sign you, and we take a chance on you, and we do we need to do it independent and fuck these labels. See, one thing Damon Dash said that was not true, and I love Damon Dash, don't get it twisted. But we untold stories at Jay-Z, so we're gonna give y'all the real shit. Damon Dash claimed that he put up all, he, he, him and Biggs put up all the money for Rockefeller. That's not true. You had Biggs, you had Jay-Z, you had Damon Dash, all them niggas had street money, but Jay-Z had most of the street money. Okay, let Memphis Bleak tell you he had over a quarter million dollars under the bed in the mattress. We're not talking about Damon Dad, we're talking about Jay-Z. We're not talking about Biggs. Because Biggs went to jail too. Yeah, you know, y'all didn't know Biggs went to jail, right? I got all that, I got the information. I don't even got a lot. I studied before I got on here. It was some aggravation while I was studying, but I still study. I got my notes. I'm gonna play some stuff they gave me. Rock of Rock Nation gave me the play tonight. But before I played the video that the audio, excuse me, the Rock Nation told me to play, made me get it to something. Because, you know, we had to shut the live down, so but we still got enough time to go into this, so we'll be out of here at 10 o'clock. So let's get into it. Let's talk about it. Jay-Z pretty much knew his destination was not gonna be with Damon Dash. He he he was a businessman, so you looked at like Damon Dash is too much for business. It's like you you ever had a motherfucker, and I mean that shit because I'm dealing with it now. You had a motherfucker that's good at some shit, but they, you know, and then they fuck up some shit. They good at one thing, but they fuck it up for the whole family. Boy, the rock, that's you, no nigga. I ain't me. I ain't fucking up enough for the whole family, nigga. You might think I'm fucking up the whole family, because people that don't know me might think that nigga gonna fuck it up for everybody. No nigga. I just do certain shit to if you if you see how I'm going with it, it's come it's supposed to help the family. It's not not be might not be popular to you at the time, but trust me, it will help the fucking family. Let's let's get back to it. So, as they go into certain doors with Leon Combs, certain doors with Def Jam, certain doors with other labels, nobody wanted to listen. I jumped, I just jumped a horse. We're gonna slow it down. We're gonna slow it all. Take it down. Take it all the way down. We we it's story time. We're not gonna rush this shit. So, Leon Combs, way before they got to Leon Combs, nobody wanted to sign Jay-Z. So, of course, you heard this is not untold. This is information some people, some of you hip-hop heads know. So, Jay-Z and Damon Dash and Biggs did it, they stuff. They put up them the dope, the drug money and the street money, and this is what they said. So, this ain't untold. So, we're gonna tell us, we're gonna tell y'all shit that's already out there and then shit that you guys don't know. I'm gonna mix it up. That's how I get over with, and that's how I get you niggas. Damn, I didn't know that. Yeah, I know you didn't know it. So they had the dope money, they they they they had the dirty money, they turned in clean money, which everybody fucking knows that. Anybody watch any any documentaries of Jay-Z. But I I had to pause the video because my engine, my my editor, he this motherfucker got the shit playing over and over. The other shit we had in the beginning, which I don't get what the fuck he was doing, but we we I I argue with the motherfuckers after after we get off there. So usually I had the videos keep playing, but you know, I got too much to talk about, so I can't. I don't want it to start off and play puffy and the Julio Foolio shit. So I'm gonna pause that right there. You learn every show you learn what to do different, but we've been doing this long enough to know you ain't supposed to fucking have that with this video. So I'm gonna curse them motherfuckers out later. Shout out to Skeletor fucking up down here in New York. You got me working too hard. Bad enough YouTube fucking up with the chat box. But they got it it looked like they got the chat box working pretty good. I'll say everybody leave in comments down here with they can leave. All right, let's get back to it. So nobody wanted to sign Jay-Z. Nobody wanted to fuck with Jay-Z. Nobody wanted to touch him because they said he wasn't marketable. All right. This is what they said in the beginning. So, like you're supposed to do, you put up your own money, your own bread, and you and you believe in yourself. Like what most people, like most artists today, won't do that. They won't, they won't go in their pocket. They won't invest in this stuff. They won't do anything to actually promote themselves. So let we just gonna talk business. If you're gonna if you're gonna do it, let's just do it. Le Jay-Z did not sit around like yo, I'm the I'm I'm the biggest rapper out here. He didn't do that. He went ahead and invest his money into his craft. And the way the music industry is now is going back to that. Because if you remember, he couldn't get off the fucking porch until he invested $500,000 into him. Dev Jan wasn't fucking with him. No label was fucking with Jay-Z. Now I got the information from Rock Nation. Let me let me let me let me break something down to y'all. 2026, this music industry is the same as it was back in 1989, 90. It went is going back to hard copies. Do you know the CDs? That's why we're going back. We're not selling CDs because that's some old school shit. We selling CDs because the game went back to CDs. Now, some people don't have a CD player, but some cars, the newer cars, I actually got some shit going on, but my my Mercedes got a CD player in a in the in then for the flash drive, and it's it is also Bluetooth. And it's a that Mercedes is a 2020, the new one is a 2025, and they have a CD in uh uh uh Bluetooth. Most cars got Bluetooth and CD. Some of them don't have some of them, some of them take out the CD player, but they know the game is going back to that. And then you also have the the USB, you can put your USB in there. There you go. So I'm not buying a car unless it gotta fuck a CD player. I don't give a fuck. It's a feature. You you know, you gotta want that feature in your car. But back to what I was saying. It's going back to CD's vinyl, flash drives, and um, you know, digital shit. You gotta have your digital shit. But let me not lose y'all. He paid five 500, he spent 500 grand to set off the the first his first project, Reasonable Doubt. He he did that, he did that with actually with the single, and then he got the distribution with Def Jam. So Rockefeller, Def Jam merged, and they did the whole album, Reasonable Doubt, and it went to triple platinum. That shit took him out of here. Let's get into Leon Combs and Jay-Z. Leon Combs did not want to fuck with Damon Dash. Damon Dash did not want to fuck with Leon Combs. Alright. So the situation with Dev Jam really came from Russell working his magic over there. So we had Russell Simmons, you know, you know, doing what he had to do, as and he's going into other shit, Russell Simmons. He brung Rockefeller over there, they had to prove themselves, they had the situation going on, they start signing a whole bunch of motherfuckers to Rockefeller, giving other niggas deals. Here you go. Here you go, the situation that Jay-Z had. Jay-Z wanted to be the man, and this is about Jay-Z, and I love Jay-Z. But when you got a person that wanted to be the man, and you over here signing Cameron, the diplomats, and you signing Drew Royal Santana, you signing this one, you signing Beanie Siegel, you signing that one. So that was all Damon Dash. Let's get this straight. That was not Jay-Z idea. Jay-Z idea was, yo, let's get this, let's get this shit off the ground, and then let's make it happen after that. That was Jay-Z. He won he wanted pretty much he wanted he wanted to get Rockefeller moving before anybody else get get in the door. His his his job was not his job was not getting in there and having them promote another artist. That ain't what he wanted to do. So I'm gonna make it abundantly clear that is not what Jay-Z wanted to do. He did not want to do that. So long as everybody knows a lot of these artists do not want to be in friendly fire, especially when they're on the same team. So when you're on the same team and you trying to be the man with the plan, they I'm gonna tell you the YouTube numbers is not real. Because I just I just saw something on my other monitor. That shit is not real. So when you're trying to be the man with the plan and you have too many people on the roster, that will hurt the brand. So Jay-Z had a problem with that. Just come with me. I'm gonna take you out somewhere. So Jay-Z had a problem with that. So a lot of people that Damon Daz signed, we're gonna get into everybody because this is not about them. Jay-Z didn't agree with it. He wasn't fucking with it, and he said it was, you know, we need to do one thing at a time. So make a long story short, Jay-Z partnered himself. I gotta, I gotta fast forward this shit. He partnered himself in the rock, the the the the the the the deal he had with pretty much Def Jam and broke broke off and did his own little fucking thing. Period. He did his own little fucking thing. And while he was doing his own fucking thing, it it pretty much pretty much pretty much ruffled a lot of fellas. It ruffled a lot of things that they was doing. Oh hold on, y'all. I gotta make sure my it fucked up a lot of shit that Damon Dash was trying to do. Of course, he did the rock aware, that shit went good. He did a whole bunch of clothing brand shit that went that did good. But one thing that Damon Dash did understand that Jay-Z didn't want to be there. When they did the show after after the um the tour and they did the DVD, and then you could see Jay-Z on tour looking unhappy. You ever had a motherfucker with you that's just unhappy? Like, how can you win when you have somebody on tour with you that that that that's that just not happy? With nothing you fucking doing. You just out here doing your thing, but but the person that you out here on the road with is not really happy with the success of what you are doing. So, how can it be successful when a the person that you came in the game with is not happy for what the hell you doing? So the moral of the story is don't trust nobody that you come into the game with once money starts coming. Once you know, once everybody thinking they are the shit. And once everybody's thinking that they bigger than the fucking program. This is this is gonna be anything. It could be you could be working at McDonald's or Starbucks or Kroger. Then you have a motherfucker come in there thinking they bigger than the program. So we're gonna get into this video that um Rock Rock Nation Summy, the player Jay-Z. I want y'all to pay attention, all right? Let's go.

SPEAKER_00 29:23

The first time I wrote a rhyme that I thought I could do is I'm the king of hip hop renewed, like the repocket of the knocking words, so blah blah good tip. When I caught that pocket, I was like, oh, I got this.

SPEAKER_01 29:46

Jay-Z, yeah. I want y'all to check this out, man.

SPEAKER_00 29:48

I had the big green notebook. My mommy got me this notebook, and I was just writing it, it'd be sideways and slant it, and just like a mess. And I was right really small because I didn't want anybody to read what I was uh writing. My teenage years, I got I moved further away from the house. And as I moved further away from the house, it was hard to like hold these things. I had to retain these thoughts. I just I didn't write anymore in that little green note, but I wish I'd had it, man. I'm really, really, I mean, I never kept up with things. Who wanted better step? We don't touch nigga statues. That's a whole different experience. I tell you about that. That was the first time I made a demo. Jazz and Big Daddy Kane in Brooklyn were the two guys at that moment. And the connector was Fresh Gordon. You know who Fresh Gordon is? I know because I've read it, I've read about it. Oh, okay. Fresh Gordon was a super connector. Everyone used to be in his house. Fresh Gordon actually really, I believe, did the push it beat and sold it for like uh $5,000. That's just that's the the folklore. I don't know if it's true. But folks, but you go to Fresh Gordon's house and Marky D be there, Pepper. And then he had like a like all the computer equipment. His house was beautiful, incredible, incredible. So anyway, in that house, the two guys were gonna meet up. They was gonna make a what we call a mixtape now. And everyone was talking about, you know, all right, yeah, who's that kid? And so Kane was like, I want to work with you, work with you. And I made a demo with Kane. And it was the first time I was like, oh, oh, I can make songs. And that was I played for my uncle. He's like, Man, get that shit out of here. I was like, I'm gonna be better than L L Cool J. He's like, get the fuck out of here. But my uncle loved me. He just he was protecting me in that moment, the way he could. Because I was dreaming too big for him. He was like, Let me let me let you down. It don't happen like that in life.

SPEAKER_01 31:42

Yeah, so while while I was doing that, let me um let me turn, let me turn it back up. Yeah, let me turn it down real quick. Shout out to Rock Nation for sending me that video. We got more of that. We're gonna get more into that. So pretty much, you know, he started with he started with Jazz O, we know, and definitely um Jazz Oh and Big Daddy King, which um Big Daddy King really feel that Jay-Z owed him, which most of these un most of these old school rappers think that some of the people that they paid the way for owe them. Which I really believe. When you come in this game and you put in work, no one you don't owe nobody shit. I mean, if you want to give somebody some shit, that's cool. You want to help somebody that's cool, but a lot of these rappers think if if they open the door for you, you owe them. Which, which um I I think I I think really really if if if a person think you owe them and uh you did it from the heart, then it's I think I think you gotta you gotta re-evaluate that relationship. Because um I don't see Big Daddy King on the road with Jay-Z D. Anybody any of y'all see that? I don't see that shit. So let's get back into it.

SPEAKER_00 32:58

Because I was dreaming too big for him. He was like, let me let me let you down. It don't happen like that. And like, you catch me, take me through the jail, we're in the jail, y'all. But they after like so '96, all the material that's on Reasonable Doubt was pretty much already like in my head. Thing about that album is the freedom in it. And how naive I was. I didn't know anything about the music business. I wasn't trying to make the greatest song or you know, Street's is watching the third verse, it's like 68 bars. It's not like 16 structured bars that I know is like be palatable for the audience. What I was thinking during Reasonable Doubt was when my guys hear this, it's gonna be like, they're gonna, their minds gonna be blown because we just left Vegas and this tells the story of our whole trip. They're gonna go crazy. This story that we just completed, and now we're back home, the hand on wax. That was it. I was trying to make music for guys who were in the street and living just like us to have like a soundtrack to, you know, the emotions that we were doing, not just like the highs, not the Lexus, and then that was part of it, yes. Like that's the eye candy, the Lexus with the TV sets and then, but the interior feelings and emotions was really what I was trying to accomplish as a writer. Like, how do I go even deeper to like, I'm gonna tell you what you were thinking when you were doing that? Because it was it was exactly what I was thinking. I know exactly how you felt in that moment when you felt that paranoia or that exhilaration, whatever it was. I've been around and flopped too many times, rock, too many rocks. Most times I come up with the flow first. You may have heard like people like he does his Rayman in the studio. I'm trying to work out the pockets and then I'll fill it with words. What Biggie had was a jazz pocket that we didn't really know we was listening to until later on. One of his neighbors was this like jazz musician who would take him to like shows and things like that. We knew Rakim was uh, you know, come from a jazz background, right? So we understood that I got a telemary lyric and then on it. So he's he's mimicking a horn. But Biggie was so unorthodox that it was like Jesus, the little Tory of us, please, these us. That's that's just jazz, you know, improv what he was doing. I don't come from a like a musical family, like you know, no the instruments, but it was just so much music in the house that it just was innate in me to think musically as well as I thought lyrically. Even the first album when I didn't know what I was doing, I listened to those, some of those those pockets, and they all like melodic. Well then you lose it in the seven next day you sweat and forget and you lie. Yeah, collaboration is important to me because I, again, it's almost like another ingredient. And let's see how we can create a song that is authentic to all of us. The artist wants the other person to have a great performance because you want a great record. You don't wanna you don't wanna have a performance where you're just you, you know, your verse is just obliterating someone, and then you know, no one wants to hear that verse. That's not good for the song itself. I'm a fan of songwriting, so I want to know that the the outcome. I'm curious to see how you know how this is gonna turn out. You know, what is Pimp C gonna say on this beat? You know, he didn't like that beat in the beginning. It was just like, hey, Jig, man, man, that's seemed too fruity, man. He thought he was making like the biggest commercial like sellout record. And he took some convincing. He still did the song. We actually was really cool once we met each other. I think he had eight bars, I'm not sure. Maybe 12. I think he had 12 bars. 12 bar verse that was like one of the most memorable verses on a song. Because we mean bun, it's like, it's the big rap, pick, but don't yo, but we we just did a triplet flow to it. Big pimp and spin the cheese. But he did the opposite. He wouldn't even, he he cut it in like I think quarter no, whatever. He cut it in like small. But I was like, what is he doing? And then by the like fourth bar, I was like, oh my god. Just beautiful.

SPEAKER_01 37:40

CX1 DJs, we do things different podcasts. I'm playing the audio gave to me by Rock Nation, Jay-Z. Uh, definitely uh breaking down his um experience in the music industry. And this is definitely the show to do that on. And like I said, he's one, you know, like I said earlier, before I start playing the audio, he's one of my top five rappers, but he also came from the musical background, all the legends. And um and he actually verified what I said, Jazz O and Big Daddy King, which Big Daddy King, and I'm gonna say this right now, really think that Jay-Z owed him. Like, really owed him, because it wasn't for I ain't gonna lie. Big Daddy King, I'm I'm trying to not say the wrong shit. Big Daddy King took Jay-Z on the road, and uh Jay-Z was was the was the rapper when when Big Daddy King go changing his clothes. Jay-Z was the guy that, you know, why King is changing his outfits, changing his suits. Jay-Z was performing, and why Big Daddy King took a shit break, a piss break, or whatever, a fuck break, whatever Big Daddy King was doing, Jay-Z was performing for the 10 to 20 minutes while Big Daddy King was getting his shit together. So now Jay-Z is a multi-billionaire. Big Daddy King thinks Jay-Z owed him. Let's get back into it.

SPEAKER_00 39:10

So maybe a month later. So I did all those little parts. I'm saying, what's your name? Who shot you? Then Biggie filled those in. And when he was like, Faith have twins, she probably had two pox. I was just like, oh my gosh, such a good line. It's just so good. And it was just so. He was one of those ones who ain't run from like controversy whether it made him look bad or not. Like, you know, most people's ego wouldn't allow them to say that. And it was like one of the endaring qualities that he had as a as a writer. You know, black and ugly as ever. And then the word, one word was so powerful. However, black and ugly as ever. However, anything he said after that was gonna be amazing. Those are little tricks as a writer that, you know, that you you everyone's trying to accomplish. I don't know, I can't say everyone. That's the that I'm trying to accomplish, like when I'm writing is like just a word that just changes the framing of the thought in a powerful way in in the shortest amount of time. Because that's hard to do. Like if you got unlimited, you know, God did versus I'm gonna hit on something because I'm writing through so many pockets. I'm gonna hit on a bunch of things. But if I got eight bars, you know, if you think about like front, like that was a very condensed, hard burst to write. You got eight bars to convey your thoughts and get out of there. Every time your name was brought up, I would at Gordon Shallon in front of an audience. Like you would just, you know, those is when you gotta sit down and really just like, you know, make sure every measure counts. Guess who's back? That's a challenge for the pen, like when you create it for someone else, and especially people that you respect. You know, Dr. Dre, I grew up obviously a fan of Headman Snoop. You know, this is Dr. Dre coming off, you know, leaving Death Row. I know where he was trying to go, because I've been there a couple times with like Kingdom Come and those things. So he's trying to make, you know, he's like, I'm I'm I'm leaving this place and I want to mature. So for me, it was just natural to like get into his psyche. Like, what is what would he be thinking right there? What would I be thinking? I would be thinking, I have to remind people that I'm Dr. Dre. That's where still Dre comes, still. Dr. Dre is the name. I'm ahead of my gang, still. It's like a challenge for you as a creator. For me, that's where I really thrive. Like when I'm challenged to like do a thing to make a word mean more. Triple entendre, quadruple entendre. That's when I feel like I'm at my best. You know, you can pin yourself in the corner and say, I'm gonna write a song about, you know, alcohol. And I'm gonna just like find clever lyrical exercise is a better example. So now I'm just gonna take all these references, you know, about bars and sit-ups and chin-ups and things, and I'm gonna make it make sense, and it can't be corny. Bring this quad, bicep, broth, request. Almost like a cooking show. These are the ingredients I got to work with. I'm making this type of meal, and I have these sort of things, and that's it. You take one of your arms and you tie it behind your back. That's a that's a a challenge. But it's a challenge as a writer that you you you relish and you want. What good is a menace to when you have a soulmate? Four for four was, I mean, it was the toughest thing I had to write. And not be not not not lyrically, not the greatest metaphors I've ever created, but like the vulnerability and the honesty and transparency, that's hard. That's a difficult thing. I suck in love. I think I need a dub over. I will be emotionally available for inviting you over. But to do it for the entire album and to sit in that and like talk about real subjects and real talk about, you know, how your kids are gonna feel, and you know, at some point we're gonna have to sit down and speak to them and all these different topics. That was the most difficult album that I had to write. The niggas in Paris, um, I think that um as a writer, those are like some of my best moments, the finest moments. For me, most rewarding, I wouldn't say best. My most rewarding moments is to make something that people just dancing to having a good time. But the theme of it is just like, wow, you know. It still has a connotation of racism in it, how people look at you. And we know about the French relationship with Africa and the money and blah, blah, blah. It's a, it's a, it's a lot of deep things that's happening at one time. You mentioned like the story of OJ. It's like this idea that once you've attained the success, you're a different person. Like you walk in as a different person. And I believe like OJ got to a point where he thought he was bigger than race. And he was like, no, I'm not black, I'm OJ. It's like, okay, right, because the moment you're not OJ, we're gonna see how that ends. Like, whereas, you know, myself, I show up as myself. And writing that in the song, there's just like there's a responsibility that I have, and I think everyone has that's come from certain places where we come from that just comes with it. That's just the responsibility you carry. Like when you walk in the room, you ain't walking in just a solo. You you you represent the history of what's been done in this country. And it don't have to be all loud, you know, just like every second of the day, but it's there. It's like air.

SPEAKER_01 44:43

CX1DJs. We do things different podcasts. Yeah, playing the audio from Rock Nation at the video audio that they want me to play tonight. And uh, I'm doing what I was told to do because I'm still out here doing what I was told to do, and I gotta do it. Untold stories of Jay-Z and um certain audio they want me to play, and some shit I'm gonna cover, some shit I'm not gonna cover. But I will say this nobody owe you. When you when you get to a certain place and you you rode the same train they rode, and you you you your train went farther than they train. I don't think you owe no fucking bodies. You know, now do you want to help a person? I'm gonna let everybody know right now because I'm checking on other things that uh Chad from IH Media told me to do. The YouTube numbers is not right. So I want nobody to be tripping. I I'm uh I got four different devices, and I was double checking something he told me to do. So I'm a strong believer, and I'm we have a official board right here showing way more numbers. So I feel very happy about that. He said, Yo, butter out, tonight I'm gonna tell you what to do. Get on a tablet that we gave you, and then look on the other thing, and then look on the actual board with the real YouTube numbers, and I see it's way more right there. Now, so on the phone, I think it just showed whoever wrote in the chat box, and it stayed, I don't want the fuck. I don't give a fuck. Let's get back to it. Jay-Z, y'all, let's go.

SPEAKER_00 46:09

Songwriter. She really can write songs, but she does so much that I think what she gravitates towards is a producer. I think she I think she I think she likes songwriting. I never asked her this question. I'm like, I'm gonna ask her this question, but I think she likes songwriting. She loves producing. Because the thing she does is unbelievable. It's like she'll hear a snare from a song that maybe we heard once a year ago, where she'll just pull a snare from somewhere, or like take this song and mix it with this song and then put that bridge over here, or you know, have a completely different song on a completely different beat and make it work for a whole other project. You know, I'm watching that like wow, inspired by you know what she's doing. And I never really thought about that, but I'm almost sure like she likes songwriting, but she loves producing. Yeah. Remember, hip-hop was about the gift of discovery. That was it. When you went to school, you couldn't have the person that was already good. You have to say, yo, I got the new tape of somebody you never heard of. And it's and it and it actually told the story of you. That's why hip-hop became so big because everyone wanted to feel those feelings. I tell people all the time, never fight against the future. Future's coming. Artists, they were trying to recreate something that was already done, but they're not connected to it like that. They're not living it and breathing it. They were fighting against gravity as opposed to telling their story. We needed that other side. We needed to hear about what happens when you've had four successful albums. What happens? What is that feeling like? How do you make the next one? How did you get in the studio? How are your kids? Like, what how do you interact with them as this hip-hop dad? But if you're trying to make young music and you're not, you know, you're not young, it's gonna be inauthentic, and people can feel that. You can smell it. So the best thing that anyone can do, like going through music, is to just tell their story and and and just keep creating from that space. I love what the clips are doing right now and how it's authentic to them, and they're telling a story about their mom and dad who just passed away and how deep that is, with John Legends singing on the chorus, and like, you know, everything that they've been through is an authentic display, uh, a piece of uh classic material that it could have come out '96 or come out 2026. It still feels the same because it's real and it's authentic to who they are. It was tied but not ready to go. Basically, it was died without letting the know.

SPEAKER_01 49:04

Yeah, so yeah, so we wanna we're gonna end it down. There's only a couple, he's shotting out other rappers that he had a lot to do with. Shout out the clips. Their album was one of the dope ass albums. I'm gonna, I'm gonna um definitely get that to Jay-Z on that one. Clips did have one of the best albums of the year. Last year and this year. And um, I I noticed once once clips dropped that album, everybody wanted to do hip hop. Everybody wanted to try to sound like they like they doing some fly shit, but they overdo it. Do you ever it's one motherfucker out here in Atlanta? I ain't gonna say his name, but he he put out an album and he tried to sound like clips like nigga, be yourself. Stop it. Just be yourself, nigga. It's only one clip. But the album, I almost say to the the to the guy from Atlanta that they got an album out now, the shit sounds dope though. It's just like, just don't overdo it. It's it's it sounded dope. It's and and I'm gonna give it to him. And shout out to my ATL. Well, I don't think he's from Atlanta, but I ain't gonna say his name because I ain't he ain't on this motherfucker, so I ain't about to give no props. But that album sounds dope, but you just be yourself. You know, and and and to keep doing what you do. Now, Jay-Z, so we know we're gonna get into it. 2008, him and Beyonce did their little thing, they um they did their little album, you know, they'll do a little album. And that shit did good. I won't say little major album. Jay-Z sold over millions of millions of albums, all right? Millions of albums. I'll be here all night. I only got two hours to do this. I was told to play that video and I did. Audio video, and I did. So we're gonna get into the information that I that I have to leak out. And I wanna buy the don't don't shoot the messenger. So let's get into the Jay-Z and Nas situation. So, the beef with Nas and Jay-Z. Everybody wanna know, was that real beef, or was that was that fake beef, or was that for record sales? How many people believe that shit was real? I bet I bet about 90% of people on here think that was some real beef, right? Until stories of Jay-Z. Guess what? That shit wasn't that real beef. That was hip hop, 100%. Nobody got shot, nobody got stabbed. And you gotta understand something. Nas is a real street, you know, you brave heart, you got Rockefeller, you got you got a couple of a lot of street dudes on both sides. And you notice it stayed on wax, it didn't go no farther than wax. And uh, I was told to report it. Now I already got the information. It was, it was, it was straight business. Then you see Nas go out and work with Jay-Z after that, uh, when he was going to bankruptcy and shit like that. G said, Jay-Z do the eye branch to him and still helped out Nise because they knew that shit was just for hip-hop. A lot of people, I wish the Fulio thing was just left hip-hop. But in 2026, a lot of these youngsters that when they get on their wax and you start dissing the other side, you couldn't have the Nise, Denise and Jay-Z beef now. I think it'd be a whole bunch of people dead right now. If that say if that came back in this era right now, it'd be a bunch of dead people. But that beef was not, that was on wax, is really to see who the best lyrics was. And uh, you know, you might say, Butterrock, who you think won that battle? I will not say that tonight. I think both brothers had dope records. A lot of people say Nas won. We gotta, we gotta still uh uh uh address the elephant in the room. A lot of people said Nas won. A lot of people say Jay-Z won. Um, my opinion, I think it was both uh a time uh in hip-hop when we needed to battle rap back alive. And that's one thing that the Jay-Z. Y'all gotta excuse my thing because I my engineer fucked up tonight, and I'm not gonna I'm not gonna talk shit about Skeletor tonight. I got, you know, I'm not in that kind of mood tonight. Uh won't be tonight. Maybe tomorrow night. Who the hell? Oh, I'm not shout out to Skeletor out there in New York City. I'm not gonna say nothing, nothing bad about Skeletor tonight. So we're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna do this real quick and play that. See if that plays. All right, it's playing. All right. Yeah, so shout out to Skeletor. I appreciate you. So Jay-Z is one of the the biggest came from Big Daddy King, came from Jazz O to be a billionaire. So you know what you you know when you have your senseis and the people that showed you how to do the show you how to do this, son. You could go to be on Atlantis Jay-Z. And um Untold Stories of Jay-Z. I, you know, I only got two hours. I really needed five hours to cover a Jay-Z. But um, you know, shout to Rock Nation, shout out to Rockefeller, shout out to Atlanta Records. Everybody did anybody know that Rockefeller was destroyed by Def Germ Records, Atlantic Records. Atlantic Records is with a whole lot of shit. And shout out to our you know, our Heart Media, Chad, um, and shout out to everybody from Rock Nation, Rockefeller. I'm gonna say Rock Nation and Rockefeller because we still gotta give Damon Dash his. I would be a fool to not shout out Damon Dash. I would I would not it wouldn't be a Rockefeller without both of these men, but Damon Dash did believe in Jay-Z, and I think whatever these brothers had behind the scenes is deeper than what we could talk about tonight. But one thing Jay-Z was saying that he wished that Damon Dash would have just followed the polar call as an you can't do too much when you're trying to accomplish a lot. And these days, you gotta do like Damon Dash was ahead of his time. All right, this just give it up with Damon Dash. He's pretty much was trying to do everything at once. Now, in 2026, what Damon Dash was doing back in the early 90s and the beginning, the early 2000s, that's what you need to be doing now. Like multiple streaming income, multiple things happen in case one thing don't happen, you got another thing. Damon Dash was ahead of his time. Jay-Z was ahead of his time. Now, the rumor that he stole Jazz O'Stow. I I listen to Jazz. I love Jazz O. I ended up like I said, I interviewed Jazz O. Um, and I'm gonna say something about Jay-Z and Jazz O. Jay-Z still looks out for Jazz O. And that's a lot of people. He looked out for Jazz O more than he looked out for Big Daddy King. And I'm gonna say that right now. And I'm the I wasn't told to say that. I'm DJ buttercraft. I'm a grown man, and I'm just gonna tell you my my what you know. I see. But me talking to Big Daddy King people, I see a lot of arrogant, arrogance, like I'm the one, I'm the king, no matter who got the most money. It was, you know, you know, King will brag about what he did for Jay-Z. And when people hear you bragging about what the fuck you did for them, they don't want to do shit for you. How about that? Ain't that how to go? They don't want to do shit for you. And for everybody that's joining us, uh, if you're new to the uh the that are live tonight, Untold Stories at Jay-Z. And also, we promoting the CX1 DJ's 2026 music conference that will be August 12th to the 15th, Atlanta, Georgia. Come to Atlanta, Georgia. The Reddit, if you're DJ Media, you're trying to come to this event, go to the C go to Jones Graphics, excuse me. Go to Jones Graphics44.com. It's JonesGraphics404.com. And I will be very busy this week. So if you if you if you don't you're not spending no money, you ain't about shit, you ain't you ignore my calls, whatever. I'm busy this week. I'm busy all for the next week, Scott. 14 days, nigga. I'm big for 14 days. Take me off your calendar. I'm busy as fuck. I got a lot of shit doing. I'm doing a lot in this next 14 days with this music conference. We got posters, we got flyers, we got radio, we got billboards, we got a whole bunch of shit we doing with the CX1 2026 music conference. If anybody trying, if you media DJs and you are record as X, if you're trying to get tickets, go to the website. It's Jones. I'm a like that up. That's Jones Graphics is one of the official sponsor, one of the official sponsors right along with Watson Printon. Go to Jones Graphics. I've got to get the website on here. Go to JonesGraphics404.com. That's JonesGraphics404.com. Buy your tickets now. If you want to be a vendor, here's the email address. Email Julia Simmons 646 at gmail.com. Email Julia Simmons 646 at gmail.com. And she will answer you immediately. Shout out to Punkerfoot the Panty Girl. Punkerfoot will be kicking off her tour. The OnlyFans tour. That's going to be kicking off at the conference. So Punkerfoot will be kicking off the OnlyFans tour. And if anybody wants to follow Punkerfoot, our official artist and model on OnlyFans is Punkafoot 404 on OnlyFans. I do believe the flyer is going to come up in a minute and we're going to see what's going to come up. Punk a foot 404. It's Punkerfoot 404 on OnlyFans. And um we're going to get to the video part of this, the Jay-Z thing. And I appreciate everybody, man. If you you support DJ Butter Rock, I'm going to tell you who we got tomorrow. I ain't telling you. I I know we got somebody dope as hell tomorrow. And I it's a legend in RB. And that show tomorrow is gonna be fucking crazy. It's so crazy. I don't think I've got I'm gonna do some announcements, but it's gonna be so crazy. Um, like tonight, we had to start over because the chat uh I do believe they got the chat fixed. Um, whatever y'all see on your phone, them at the them not the right numbers. Uh uh, I I have to switch board.