Jay-Z To Purchase Taylor Swift’s Record Label?

Published: Friday 17th Jul 2015 by David
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Has Jay-Z got his eye on Taylor Swift‘s record label?

All you need to know about his plans below…

Hits Daily Double reveals that the Roc Nation CEO had planned to pick up Swift’s Big Machine earlier this year after she opted not to ride on his  his TIDAL streaming wave.

The publication reports:

Scott Borchetta came close to selling half of his Big Machine Label Group to Jay Z’s Roc Nation for $135m, but that deal—which most saw as an odd fit—did not close. According to Live Nation’s Michael Rapino, Roc Nation’s joint-venture partner, his company has no interest in owning a record label.

Taylor recently got into bed with Jay’s current rivals over at Apple.

Read more on that here.

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  1. truthtea July 17, 2015

    Run for the hills!

    Jay is not a great businessman. Every time something goes wrong with Tidal, here comes Jay trying to do damage control.

  2. Career Ender July 17, 2015

    she’ll come down to earth once she starts flopping
    .
    her time will come
    .
    why don’t people give Basic Swift hard time for ditching country mydic for basi pop bops like they do other artists?

    • Tyler Makivelli July 17, 2015

      Because she has the complexion for the protection….if you know what I mean.

      • yelyaH – the alternative queen July 17, 2015

        Not when bleych went white in 2005

      • Tyler Makivelli July 17, 2015

        Taylor Swift is white,Katy Perry is white, Gaga is white…look at them, then take a look at Beyonce. No re-evaluate what you just said.

      • Tyler Makivelli July 17, 2015

        *Now

      • Leanne July 17, 2015

        What the f*** does her color have to do with anything you pseudo black panther? People love Taylor and her pop progression was natural unlike most who do it for a quick top 10. Sit down.

      • Tyler Makivelli July 17, 2015

        @Leanna
        Opie, if I really cared about your opinion I would have asked for it. Miss me with all of that b*******. Its a well known fact that white artist are propelled. Its been that way for years.

    • BOOBIE July 17, 2015

      Her next album won’t go 2x platinum. All of her fans will be done with junior high school

  3. Dossome July 17, 2015

    That would’ve been a dumb business move but we’re talking about Jay-Z here,SMH…Diddy and Dre are alot smarter when it comes to doing business

    • Carry On July 17, 2015

      Diddy actually have a college degree and Dr. Dre is really from the streets if you wanted to care.

      • Mimij July 18, 2015

        Diddy doesn’t have a college degree. He attended Howard University and dropped out. He did receive a honorary degree last year from Howard but did not formally graduate. Don’t spread lies and then try to apply it to your argument. Now everything you said is null and void.

  4. Tamartiann July 17, 2015

    Jay Z’s business ventures almost always fail. He needs to focus on Roc Nation and his FLOP roster.

    • Slay__Hive July 17, 2015

      Your ugly fav and her fat husband still owe the IRS?

  5. yelyaH – the alternative queen July 17, 2015

    Run Taylor Swift! He wants to buy your record company and make you flop so that his fat wife can be a “true queen” and not the self proclaimed one that he sells to us.

    • AnnaliseKeatingsNewWig July 18, 2015

      Mattilda Phoenix the Surgery Queen, listen, you lil bįtch you’re at 8.5 and i’m gon need you to return to the usual -5. NO-one is fooled with this troll account, and i’m not even going to address paramore because this is fake disguise for you. Your lil basic Chaelin Lee fave is a nobody outside of her region, LOL and ironically I bet Beyoncé has probably outsold her in her own country [Korea], In fact I’d like you to produce a receipt of that. I’m waiting…

  6. Stephy. July 17, 2015

    Interesting.

  7. Rosie July 17, 2015

    That’s really weird.
    Doesn’t Big Machine have more country artists though? I know Taylor is by FAR their biggest star but none of you listen to country and I’m pretty sure they have some other big artists popular with cousin-f****** rednecks that none of us have ever heard of. Just wondering.

  8. yelyaH – the alternative queen July 17, 2015

    Taylor Swift better clear her contract up and move to Columbia or interscope. Winners (sans vodka del rey) come from interscope. He’ll Katy Perry comes from Columbia

    • Rosie July 17, 2015

      Three facts you got wrong:
      •In 2015, Fad and Lana are the only two successful female artists on Interscope. Columbia and Republic are slaying now.
      •Katy is on Capitol.
      •You stan Paramore in 2015. Work on getting their album to sell 900K worldwide instead of throwing these tired ass “alcoholic kii!” drags more tired than Hayley’s roots after her 4729th dye job.

      • Chaelin Lee PKA CL is coming | 재 이현 김 July 17, 2015

        Lmao not the hair dye jokes from two thousand and nine!!

  9. yelyaH – the alternative queen July 17, 2015

    *crazy for bleach
    *peroxide girl
    *white boy
    .
    The lead singles of dangerously in denial

    • Chaelin Lee PKA CL is coming | 재 이현 김 July 17, 2015

      I drag bey but you tried too hard

    • Stavdash July 17, 2015

      *snicker*
      That was weak as hell. Try harder.

  10. Molly July 17, 2015

    He should be more focused on these lawsuits and getting Tidal off the ground instead.

    & Tyler stop bring race into everything babe.

    • Leanne July 17, 2015

      He’s so annoying with that s***! I’m not Boo boo the fool and I know racism is very much prevalent in 2015 but damn please stop bringing race into every freaking thing!!

      • Molly July 17, 2015

        Girl I like Tyler but damn not everything is a race issue.

    • Molly July 17, 2015

      bringing*

    • Tyler Makivelli July 17, 2015

      Wow, Molly. Ok…I see you.

      • Molly July 17, 2015

        Um what’s that supposed to mean?

    • Aaliyah_Rihanna July 18, 2015

      love u molly!

  11. Leanne July 17, 2015

    Shouldn’t he be focusing his energy on Tidal?

  12. Chaelin Lee PKA CL is coming | 재 이현 김 July 17, 2015

    싸 발 Tyler…you need to stop with these race antics. It’s tired. Move on

    • Tyler Makivelli July 17, 2015

      So there is no white/light privilege in terms of mainstream entertainment?

      • Chaelin Lee PKA CL is coming | 재 이현 김 July 17, 2015

        By the looks of the US media I got in the uk, Seoul and now in cape town, Black has been the in thing since 2011.
        But if you have personal demons to overcome, you can leave it at my masonic temple or the church. Not TGJ

      • Tyler Makivelli July 17, 2015

        Ling Ling stop lying!
        In the UK, black artists have been pushed out of R&B. White singers like Adele, Sam Smith, Jessie J and Ed Sheeran are now the new faces of soul and R&B while black and mixed singers like Emeli Sande, Estelle, and Leona Lewis are ignored by the media. In the future, I see the same thing happening in America. Remember that Rock and Roll is primarily a combination of “African-American genres” such as blues, boogie woogie, jump blues and jazz. Today Rock is considered “white music” and Black artists have completely been pushed out. The same will happen in American Hip Hop and R&B in a few years. So thats b*******!

      • Chaelin Lee PKA CL is coming | 재 이현 김 July 17, 2015

        Do you know the preference of Majority of black artists in the uk are dance hall inspired mind you. And geologically speaking, how can you expect the minority to slay the majority. Blame the people who buy music for not buying “black music” then.

        Secondly who tf is Ling Ling? It’s Jae Hyeon or Matt Phoenix to you 암캐

        Thirdly, if you’re so unhappy, why not make like an xmen origins story and visit your “homeland” and then see, because most of Africa slays RnB and hip hop with black artists (cape town is mostly trance, big room)

      • OMG Logic!!! July 17, 2015

        No, there isn’t.

      • AnnaliseKeatingsNewWig July 18, 2015

        @tyler that tea about the UK r&b scene was excellent, and I couldn’t have said it better myself
        ___________
        @MattPhagnix if you’re not from the UK, do everyone the courtesy to fact-check your receipts, because speaking as an actual Black person born and raised in London, I can tell you that the majority of black people (teenagers to young adults) listen to Grime/Hip hop, Garage/House, Afrobeats, Old Skool/R&B, with a minority listening to dancehall (mainly those with Caribbean heritage). Even as a Black person in the UK, I’m not going to generalise my race so why on earth is a cretin like you having the nerve to do so?
        Oh and ‘geology’ is the study of rock formations and the structure of the earth, LMAO you dumass so the term ‘geological’ is nonsensical in this argument. You clearly have no idea what your talking about, perhaps a rock formation was thrown at your collagen/Botox-filled face and you’ve lost your common sense.

    • AnnaliseKeatingsNewWig July 18, 2015

      Matt don’t even, please! You are constantly making African jokes and making fun of the poverty that happens in some (emphasis on SOME) of the countries in Africa. You’re an insecure lil submissive bítch that deserves a dog collar,

  13. Rihboy July 17, 2015

    Who cares? He will just become more rich. Big deal for a multimillionaire, can we get some good meaningful post please. Thanks.

  14. Chaelin Lee PKA CL is coming | 재 이현 김 July 17, 2015

    This site is late. CL replaced Fergie in BEP hence why they signed Scooter on as their Manger because CL is already signed to him for her upcoming debuet

  15. Mark111 July 17, 2015

    Well the future of Taylor Swift is doomed.

  16. Xtina = The voice of this generation July 17, 2015

    Just shut up you racist @yelyaH – the alternative queen
    I’m tired of these white twinks acting as if black people want to be white. Firstly Beyoncé is a black woman who’s naturally light. Give me receipts that she really bleached her skin or stfu.

    • OMG Logic!!! July 17, 2015

      “naturally light” fixed that for you. That monstrously thighed woman was very much a dark negro before her bleaching routines.

      • yelyaH – the alternative queen July 17, 2015

        Kiii! You have me screaming!

      • Xtina = The voice of this generation July 17, 2015

        “Show me the receipts” by the words of the great Whitney Houstons. You better show me

      • OMG Logic!!! July 17, 2015

        Just Google image search ‘Beyonce before bleaching’ to see the night and day difference.

      • DMWN July 17, 2015

        @OMG Logic!!!
        Gays are sick in the head degenerates who have no real legitimacy. They’re perverted, psycho-sexual predators that prey on kids, have absolutely no moral compass, are mentally ill and add nothing to society but perversion. Their parents failed through passing down faulty genes and with overall incompetent parenting. I don’t even think red blood flows through the veins of homosexuals, it’s more like some warped green oooze, similar to that of a retarded martian like yourself. You parent aren’t normal. Just remember that.

  17. Chaelin Lee PKA CL is coming | 재 이현 김 July 17, 2015

    One thing Beyonce and Madonna have in common is when they work with other females, their careers are doomed: Nicki Minaj, britney, shakira, Kelly Rowland ect.

  18. Tyler Makivelli July 17, 2015

    @Chaelin Lee PKA CL is coming | 재 이현 김
    Ling Ling stop lying! In the UK, black artists have been pushed out of R&B. White singers like Adele, Sam Smith, Jessie J and Ed Sheeran are now the new faces of soul and R&B while black and mixed singers like Emeli Sande, Estelle, and Leona Lewis are ignored by the media. In the future, I see the same thing happening in America. Remember that Rock and Roll is primarily a combination of “African-American genres” such as blues, boogie woogie, jump blues and jazz. Today Rock is considered “white music” and Black artists have completely been pushed out. The same will happen in American Hip Hop and R&B in a few years. So thats b*******!

    • OMG Logic!!! July 17, 2015

      Emeli Sande, Estelle, and Leona Lewis are being ignored by the media because they are no longer the new hot acts. That’s what happens with every single artist regardless of race.

      And save yourself the music history lesson bull5hit. If we really want to get into detail why not go WAY back to the origins of pop music. European classical composers are the originators. Get the hell over yourself and your dramatic race tangent.

    • L21480 July 18, 2015

      Black folks collectively lost interest in rock & roll, and took most of its elements and repackaged them into R&B/Soul. Black folks weren’t pushed out of rock, we just stopped caring about it and basically let white folks have it. Then they reshaped it into something almost completely different from its 1950s roots. White rock fans have actually been generally receptive to black rockers (Hendrix, Prince, Hootie & The Blowfish, Lenny Kravitz, Fishbone, etc.) It’s black folks that look at black musicians who want to rock with an attitude and wanna snub the genre. You can’t abandon a kid, then claim that their adoptive parents kidnapped him.

  19. Xtina = The voice of this generation July 17, 2015

    So sam decides to hold my comments for moderation? Can’t handle the tea I’m serving ??

  20. Chaelin Lee PKA CL is coming | 재 이현 김 July 17, 2015

    @tyler

    Do you know the preference of Majority of black artists in the uk are dance hall inspired mind you. And geologically speaking, how can you expect the minority to slay the majority. Blame the people who buy music for not buying “black music” then.

    Secondly who tf is Ling Ling? It’s Jae Hyeon or Matt Phoenix to you 암캐

    Thirdly, if you’re so unhappy, why not make like an xmen origins story and visit your “homeland” and then see, because most of Africa slays RnB and hip hop with black artists (cape town is mostly trance, big room)

  21. yelyaH – the alternative queen July 17, 2015

    Not the Korean spice runner, lanaholic, Tyler the the pressed and xxxLtina stan coming for me.
    *calls waiter*
    Could you please ask the Korean to make me some kimchi and the bartender Rosanne to get me glass of bubbly while Tyler shines my shoes and the fat lady xxxltina sings? It is cabaret night after all.

  22. Grande the Way July 17, 2015

    He can’t even get his own label together, why would he buy another one? Jay Z seems like the type who likes to get involved with everything but sucks at most of it. He shouldn’t have even started with Tidal until Roc Nation had more than J.Cole and Rihanna.

  23. Xtina = The voice of this generation July 17, 2015

    You’re also recycling that “xxxxtina” drag that idiot Anna wig or whatsover was using? Be original & try something new its been used B.C. It doesn’t really matter or effect me because she looks really good nowadays. “sings” you do know she was included in Rolling Stones 100 Best Singers of All Time & she was the youngest one included? She has an 4 Octave range(Acclaimed Vocalist & Praised by Vocalists such as Patti La Belle, Etta James etc) & has won pop vocal grammy? Pretty weird for a person who doesn’t sing lol. You stan for an unknown group Paramora & have that unknown Hayle on your avi & you actually have the audacity to come for my fave when “Beautiful” is literally more Iconic & Impactful than anything that unknown group has released. Chile I’m done dragging you from Hell to Heaven.

    • Grande the Way July 17, 2015

      Not to mention Christina isn’t even fat anymore. That drag worked back when Paramore was still relevant. It didn’t even know who was in that avi until someone mentioned the lead singer of Paramore.

      • yelyaH – the alternative queen July 17, 2015

        Paramore won a Grammy THIS YEAR. When will your grammyless donut licking fave? Exsit to the left and join Katy Perry, oniiga garbaj and lama del rey at the grammyless committee table.

  24. OMG Logic!!! July 17, 2015

    The camel just can’t get past this hump can he?

  25. shakira stan July 17, 2015

    I smell bankruptcy coming soon

  26. Xtina = The voice of this generation July 17, 2015

    @GrandeTheWay
    Exactly girl!! I wasn’t even coming at IT as a Xtina stan, I was coming as a concerned person of colour. I’m actually irritated by the fact that a light person is accused of bleaching his/her skin to look white? Okay let’s be real some people do it because of low self esteems & our society with the influence from the media won’t go into detail but for some reason some of us are naturally light skinned, Beyoncé is naturally light skinned even her baby pictures are a proof so its really irritating for this person to claim she wants to be “white” like BISH W.H.E.T. I find it really annoying, arrogant & very stupid… Anyways done dragging that b`tch from Mariah’s falsetto to Britney’s Falsetto like.

    • OMG Logic!!! July 17, 2015

      GIRLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL are you reaching for the moon because you’re already at the stars! Mariah Carey is a light skinned woman. Thighyonce was borderline Sudanese before she started her massive bleaching.

      • Xtina = The voice of this generation July 17, 2015

        Mariah Carey mom is white obviously she’s going to be light skinned & Girl bye with that b*******. Idhtt for this madness

  27. shakira stan July 17, 2015

    The gold digger thrash yonce will leave him faster than she left him in the elevator when her drug addict irrelevant sister was beating him up….why my sweetheart Bianca Lawson got into this mess of a family is beyond me.

  28. Chaelin Lee (p.k.a – CL) is coming | 재 이현 김 July 17, 2015

    I feel bad for Tyler. I feel like I should be hugging him and telling him it’s gonna be ok lmao

  29. Xtina = The voice of this generation July 17, 2015

    Xtina has more than 1 Grammy lol.

    • OMG Logic!!! July 17, 2015

      Too bad she doesn’t have more than one octave these days. 🙁

      • Xtina = The voice of this generation July 17, 2015

        Come a little bit harder, I’m actually fallin’ asleep f**.

      • shakira stan July 17, 2015

        Lol drag the flop…her fans keep saying she is the biggest Latin artist but shakira’s net worth is twice as big…and don’t get me started on how a wooden Britney slayed and still slaying her.

  30. Chaelin Lee (p.k.a – CL) is coming | 재 이현 김 July 17, 2015

    I dunno If Beyonce is having a mid life crisis or she’s being black now that it’s convenient for her since the black wave has took the world by storm.

    Shame, that blonde wig she passes off as her own keeps her back though

    • Xtina = The voice of this generation July 17, 2015

      What do you mean she’s being black for now?

    • shakira stan July 17, 2015

      She has always been an attention w****….look at the billboard chat black music i s getting attention again and she is jumping on the moving train ….the b**** cares about nobody else but herself

      • AnnaliseKeatingsNewWig July 18, 2015

        I actually don’t know you, but I’m talking to MattildaPhagnix/CLstan/yelyah. Let’s never chat or cross paths again xo

    • AnnaliseKeatingsNewWig July 18, 2015

      This is coming from the p*** who paid big money to alter his eyelids, straighten his nose and alter his chin to fit ‘western’ standards and look more feminine. What on earth do you know about being black? You can live in cape town, change your skin, learn the dialects, study the culture, but you will never be black or truly understand the meaning of that. So quit talking out of your swore-worn out ass that your butterfinger-frankenstein/papabear looking ass boyfriend recently entered, and stick to being a mute bítch that only comes out when the Naīvy summons her.

      • shakira stan July 18, 2015

        Who is the f** talking to?

  31. Tyler Makivelli July 17, 2015

    @Chaelin
    Majority, b**** Im like George W. Bush I dont give a f*** about what the majority has say.
    Yes, the majority is to blame. They allow it to happen. Idk why its so hard for you to admit that the media is, and has always been racially bias.
    Im not a punk ass b**** like you. I dont turn a blind eye to unfairness, I address it.

    • Chaelin Lee (p.k.a – CL) is coming | 재 이현 김 July 17, 2015

      If you didn’t care you wouldn’t complain about things that don’t affect you. Especially when it happened 1223562 years ago.
      *holds you*

      • Tyler Makivelli July 17, 2015

        What happened 375 years ago is still relevant to what currently going on in today’s society is it not?

    • OMG Logic!!! July 17, 2015

      On Tumblr no doubt?

  32. Molly July 17, 2015

    Tyler were you bothered by my comment sis?

    • OMG Logic!!! July 17, 2015

      He’s bothered because apparently Black people should make up 50% of the music and film industry and be receiving 50% of the awards and accolades despite being 13% of the population. Reality is one tough cookie.

      • OMG Logic!!! July 17, 2015

        He also conveniently ignores that Black Americans make up 76% of the NBA and 68% of the NFL. I don’t think I’ve ever heard the White community riot over those statistics.

      • Tyler Makivelli July 17, 2015

        When did you become an expert on how I do, and do not feel Thats So Raven?
        How many of those black people own these NFL and NBA teams?? We have one principal back owner in the entire league.
        So while you’re making the big bucks you’re having us work and run the field like some docile field n*****.

    • Tyler Makivelli July 17, 2015

      Just a lil bit. Thought you and I were on the same page thats all.

      • Molly July 18, 2015

        Its just a difference of opinion and experience boo.. I wasn’t trying to come for you like that at all.

  33. Xtina = The voice of this generation July 17, 2015

    I can’t @ this shakira stan thinking it will get a response from me? Keep dreaming b****.

  34. Xtina = The voice of this generation July 17, 2015

    The last time Shawho? Was relevant was in 2007 thanks to Beyoncé’s Beautiful Liar & don’t count the 2010 World Cup song, its forgotten now. Rihanna in her peak couldn’t even save her even with the p*** video nobody cared. 🙁

  35. QueenNavy July 17, 2015

    Even if this came to pass, this most likely wouldn’t effect Taylor Swift. I’m sure she has several “out”-clauses in her contract, particularly one that would allow her to leave should the company ever be sold.

  36. Rosie July 17, 2015

    Haha I see the Paramore stan tried to use their ONE untelevised Grammy to drag. Haven’t they been in the industry for over a decade and they’re JUST NOW winning a Shammy? You’re bragging about that when Ariana and Lana are just now finishing their second era. Paramore is on what, album 6? Both Lana and Ari still have plenty of time to win awards, not to mention Lana already has more legitimate awards overall than them.
    Not to mention the way the entire rock community other than their emo cutting Hot Topic fans dragged them for winning since “Still Into You” isn’t even a pure rock song. Thank God Twenty One Pilots basically stole their stanbase (although they suck too).

  37. Mark111 July 17, 2015

    That’s the face Beyonce fell inlove with and what Blue will look like. Poor thing, lol

    • B. Hill July 17, 2015

      That obscenely large forehead above Rihanna’s eyes is the one Chris beat black and blue several times, and numerous rappers have spilled their seed on.

    • AnnaliseKeatingsNewWig July 18, 2015

      Get a girlfriend Russell…. oops I mean @DairyQween/KiarhheaQween….. no wait I mean Mark. It will be easier to convince yourself that way babe 🙂

  38. Mark111 July 17, 2015

    Paramore was one of the first bands/artist to have a 360 deal. (other than Motown)

    • Career Ender July 18, 2015

      right?
      .
      That’s why I’m not 100% with her I know she can lick off yo ånal clean brown and and the next she drags you through cow dung
      .
      I give her 50% max, and im always ready to cheq a biatch
      .
      the truest tea about how I feel about Molly

      • Molly July 18, 2015

        Bye Career Ender, you’re a fake b itch. Didn’t nobody come for Beyonce or you so honestly you shouldn’t have s hit to say! This was between Tyler and I this had nothing to do with you bum. F uck your 50% you get 0% from me, Now don’t you have a hut to build? Toodles troll.

  39. AnnaliseKeatingsNewWig July 18, 2015

    @MattPhagnix if you’re not from the UK, do everyone the courtesy to fact-check your receipts, because speaking as an actual Black person born and raised in London, I can tell you that the majority of black people (teenagers to young adults) listen to Grime/Hip hop, Garage/House, Afrobeats, Old Skool/R&B, with a minority listening to dancehall (mainly those with Caribbean heritage). Even as a Black person in the UK, I’m not going to generalise my race so why on earth is a cretin like you having the nerve to do so? Oh and ‘geology’ is the study of rock formations and the structure of the earth, LMAO you dumass so the term ‘geological’ is nonsensical in this argument. You clearly have no idea what your talking about, perhaps a rock formation was thrown at your collagen/Botox-filled face and you’ve lost your common sense.

    _________
    Oh and Oinktina stan, I LUH-UH-UH-UH-URVE that you’re still upset with me LMAO. I paid Cici a compliment y.day, so you should be over the moon (since you’re really from the c-squad).

  40. Jay July 19, 2015

    I’m still trying to figure out what Beyonce sees in that man. Can somebody enlighten me?

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