RAP BEEF TIMELINE · 2004–2017
Jay-Z vs. Jim Jones
Dipset’s Def Jam frustration and “Brooklyn High”
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The Roc-A-Fella breakup leaves Jim Jones and the Diplomats openly critical of Jay-Z’s Def Jam era. Jay’s “Brooklyn High” and Jones’s responses make the tension explicit before Jones’s Roc Nation management deal turns it into history.
THE RECORD
The moments
Music industry · disputed account
Dipset’s Roc-A-Fella split hardens into a campaign
Cam’ron and Jim Jones criticize Jay-Z’s Def Jam leadership across the post-Roc-A-Fella mixtape era.
Read the receipt ↗Diss track
“Brooklyn High” flips Jones’s hit into a response
Jay-Z records over the “We Fly High” beat, using the moment to contrast financial status and credibility with Jim Jones.
▶ Listen to “Brooklyn High”Read the receipt ↗Reconciliation
Jones joins Roc Nation management
Jim Jones’s Roc Nation management deal supplies a practical, public endpoint to the old Dipset-versus-Jay tension.
Read the receipt ↗
THE RECEIPTS
Sources and listening
JAY-Z, Dipset, and Cash Money — released music and public interviews ↗ARTIST LENSES