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After a day at the office filled mostly with meetings and phone calls, Damon Dash, CEO of Roc-A-Fella Enterprises, hops into the rear of a Ford V16 party van with two underlings. There will be no party tonight. His driver is taking him to XM Satellite Radio's New York City studios, where Dash and his Roc-A-Fella crew put on a weekly talk show to plug his rap, clothing and film empire. Slouched in his leather seat, Dash grabs control of the CD remote and makes a selection. It isn't Roc-A-Fella superstar...
Dash's new business plan fits him like a Roc-A-Fella hoodie. This fall he started Roc Music, the first hip-hop company to produce rock, alternative and R. and B. He's flipping the turntables: over the past decade, pundits have lauded rap for "going mainstream" and finding suburban skater punks far from the smoked-out city neighborhoods where the music was founded. With Roc Music, Damon Dash is formally inviting rock into the hip-hop world. "I've had 20 albums go gold or platinum," he says. "Why can't I have that in rock, soul...
Dash hears the whispers. "People are contemplating our demise," Dash tells some dozen Roc-A-Fella staff members gathered in his Broadway office. "With Jay retiring, now more than ever we are going to be critiqued on every level." Dash doesn't just moderate a meeting. Sitting at his desk, two black greyhound statues flanking him, Dash cups his hands and lectures...
Prissy pop acts like Britney Spears and 98º are on today's syllabus. Dash wants his people to know that although Roc-A-Fella will move beyond hip-hop, the company won't lose any edge. "This pop-music thing, it's starting to bother me," he begins. "Everything that's hot, it's going pop. What sells now is this bulls___." His cell phone interrupts. Dash spends 10 minutes jousting with a colleague. "It's not my fault that your company owes me $85,000," he says. Dash flicks the phone shut and continues. "We have to come...
...lived life. And that pretty much sealed the retirement." The use of we is as close as Jay-Z comes to talking about his relationship with Beyonce, but he says he sees a future in which he has kids ("the biggest thing missing in my life"), runs Roc-A-Fella and maybe even takes over as president of his corporate music parent, Universal Records. "I really want to make music that lasts. People in the business are chasing hot records, but a hot record is only hot for six months," he says. "Sing me the lyrics to The Thong Song...