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Kanye West responds to reports Jay-Z sold his masters to buy back his own: “Don’t let the system pit us against each other”
Kanye West has responded to reports that Jay-Z sold the rapper’s masters to Def Jam in a bid to secure the rights to his own recordings.Earlier this week (September 15), West began sharing scans of his record label contracts. Some of the pages he shared suggest that, while the star owns some of his masters, the rights for his first six albums were previously held by Jay-Z.West released his first six records on Roc-A-Fella, the label owned by Jay-Z.