Rap Radar Podcast: Lyor Cohen

Written By: @BdotTM September 23, 2015 @ 3:28 PM EDT
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Lyor Talk

You know the name. You’ve heard the stories. But now, it’s time for Lyor Cohen to set the record straight. Leaving no stone unturned, the 300 founder discussed the success of his label, independence, and artists Fetty Wap, Young Thug, and Travis Scott. Later on, he spoke on the passing of protégé Chris Lighty, relationship with Jay Z, pioneering 360 deals, and culture vulture accusations. LISTEN here and SUBSCRIBE here.

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  1. srucker says:

    a fucken leach. divides people and signs mofos to lame ass deals.. fuck 300

  2. thedeamkid19 says:

    if i had to say who is a puppet master for this pseudo illuminati celebritys = this is your man

  3. el jim chapo guzman says:

    Why is this always coming from black men who married foreign women and had mixed babies and then are talking about people stealing their ”culture”? like what culture? when Dame was getting money, he would have handed the white man anything for a bigger check but now he has lost so of course he is back on his rants against them. So typical of the bitter black man. Like this is business, you dont have to kiss the white man on the mouth or sleep in his bed, it’s about investing your money and make it a bigger revenue, like it aint that hard to understand. Why are some black people always trying to bring down people who just are good at business? aint their fault that you are lazy and cant understand the grind.

    1. BIGGER Fish 2 Cook says:

      black men who married foreign women are you referring to?

      1. BIGGER Fishes 2 Cook says:

        *which*

      2. el jim chapo guzman says:

        Blacks

    2. ilexx says:

      Do you just say things that you make up in your head or do you do any fact checking at all before you speak?

      Dame has always been who he is right now. He never wanted to sell Roc-A-Fella at all, he didn’t want Jay doing corporate deals, like the S. Carter shoes with Reebok, he wanted them to make the shoes so they could “make more revenue” per sale than Reebok pocketing the sales revenue and cutting Jay a check for use of his name (aka licensing). Thats the guy Dame was and still is today, for the better or for the worse.

      So Dame wouldn’t have just handed the white man anything.

      And please stop speaking down on the black man. Why do you feel the need to speak down on another race? Are you that insecure?

      We’ve been over you racial tendencies before but seriously, why is it so hard for you to comment without bringing it to a place where you feel the need to tell ppl what’s wrong with black ppl?

      1. el jim chapo guzman says:

        You and Dame needs to sit down because he was right there making money with Lyor, it just Lyor had since enough to invest, and you just spent. Now that the money is gone you want to cry about the culture being ruined, I didn’t see Lyor popping bottles, and degrading women, it was dame .so please go sing that song to somebody that care..so what the white man got over again, you let him!!!

        1. ilexx says:

          Wtf are you talking about? Being that all you want to do is talk about Dame losing and popping bottles and crying, there really is no point to this discussion. You avoided everything else I said though…..

          Making money with somebody as a partnership is different from handing “the white man anything for a bigger check”, which is what you said Dame would have done when he was “making money”. So yes Dame was making money with Lyor at one point in time, because yes, doing business with any MAJOR label involves doing business with “Whitey”. At least they didn’t sign some sucker deal with Def Jam, or a regular recording contract, they did a partnership and that allowed Jay, Dame and Biggs to keep majority equity in Rocafella. I do believe we can thank Dame for that.

          If you even understood for a second what a culture vulture was and understood how your beloved white man leeches off of OUR culture, be it hip hop or african american culture on a whole, then just maybe you would be able to get why Dame says some of the things he says.

          It first starts with understanding that the “truth” isn’t biased, it can come from a wealthy man, a broke man, a black man, a white man, a chinese woman or a haitian child. You have to open your ears and your eyes so that you can listen to what is being said and see what is going on right infront of you.

          I can’t continue giving you life lessons in these comments. You need to pick up a book and step away from the computer/phone and just read bro. You need to have an understanding of what you are talking about before you go posting your hate-filled ignorant perspective all over the internet. Hate can’t be your only contribution to the world.

      2. Room 222 says:

        Guzman is Haitain, and his government name is Vladimir François.

    3. Bijizzle says:

      Dr. Umar?? Is that you????

  4. BlackAnastasia says:

    I won’t listen to this fake imposter Jew knowing damn well he’s not an Israelite. These frauds are the ones that financed slavery and they’re now trying to enslave us again with the IRS and the Music Industry. GTFOH!

  5. Dsunn says:

    The most dck suckinsess podcast. I can imagine how much ass kissing went on here. No need to listen

    1. lrswissh says:

      all 5 of u niggas stupid but Travis Scott is dope tho

  6. @RAMBOHUSTLE says:

    People are always on here bitching about “Slavery” and all this shit…like..who else would have given the people Lyor gave money to a chance? These people HAD MONEY….Before and without Hip-Hop….and took a chance and put money into Hip-Hop because they believed in its potential…these are the people who opened the door for hip-Hop to become a major corporation. SHUT THE FUCK UP. Unless youre putting money up. SSSSSSShhh…

  7. Strong Enough says:

    did YN join ISIS and not tell anyone

  8. Dark Matters says:

    26 minutes in and this is proving to be a mildly troubling listen for me. Perhaps, it’s me or perhaps, otherwise.

  9. Megamind says:

    Elliott really bro…really? I’m taking it back old school…jocking is at an ALL-TIME high! Real talk…you can’t even hear what the guest have to say because of the jocking and cackling!

    Megamind

  10. ilexx says:

    I actually listened to the podcast this time. The new embedded player works on both the desktop and on mobile, good job guys lol.

    Honestly no major critique of the podcast, Elliot seems to be making some sort of effort to tone down the laugh, I saw a negative review on iTunes about that, me and everybody here have been saying that for quite some time. Pay attention to your listeners, you’ll be better for it.

    Didn’t like what B.Dot was saying at the start about the fact that at this point “interest trumps product” in reference to WATTBA. That’s the type of thing we want to stop encouraging. If interest is high but the product sucks, we need to say so and stop making excuses for shitty product.

    1. rapradarsucks says:

      Realist comment ever, you clowns should listen.

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    2. Brian B.Dot™ Miller says:

      it’s true these days…sorry for the late response

      1. ilexx says:

        Yeh I kinda get why you said it but the more we accept that interest trumps product, then we will continue to get more shitty product as long as they can drum up interest.

        Critics, tastemakers and people of influence within an industry need to maintain a certain level of integrity. I understand the need to maintain relationships but at some point you have to be all the way real. If you think the product is kinda wack, then just say so.

  11. Bijizzle says:

    Juan Ep >>>>> Rap Radar

    1. hands mahoney says:

      of course, but they are starting to get a little better

      1. Bijizzle says:

        I’m not hating bro… Just sayin

  12. Sonic says:

    Dope. Travis Scott, Young Thug and Fetty Wap are some of the most talented artists out there.

    1. MildManneredReporter says:

      Lmfao!!!!! Thanks for that laugh

    2. Parker says:

      talented?! your on crack or your retarded

  13. Peekay says:

    B. Dot keepin it corny.

  14. knuckles says:

    god forbid you guys do a podcast without mentioning how much you love drake

  15. lrswissh says:

    man I hope yall niggas asked good questions

  16. lrswissh says:

    Thanks for trying BDOT, real shit

    1. Brian B.Dot™ Miller says:

      Props

  17. lrswissh says:

    dame dash is right and so is lyor, keep it real man. This shit is abt money. If you abt the craft then die and don’t sign a deal. HAHAHAH THIS BIG BIZ BABY AND THAT MAN SAID IT. NO COLOR. HAHAHAH. AND HE SAID “this might not be your style.” HAHAHAH. HE REAL. hahah. This helped man. Don’t sign that deal if you don’t really believe you not gonna get that man his money back. AND I STILL DONT UNDERSTAND IF AN ARTIST CAN OWN HIS MASTERS ONE DAY ANF HOW LONG THE 360 IS AND THATS HOW YALL TALK AROUND CIRCLES AROUND EVERYDAY COMMON NIGGAS. But both lyor and dame cool. It’s abt what type of status you tryna achieve. 5 mil or 50 baby. Damn it’s real out here man

  18. THE REAL mac DIESEL says:

    @ B.Dot @ YN

    Lyor Talk

    ^

    THE TALL ISRAELI GOT YA’LL RUNNIN’ A MUCK OUT HERE!!!! GOT YOU THINKIN’ HIS “ARTISTS” ARE GOOD!!!! BUT AIN’T NOTHIN’ BUT FLASH IN PAN ASS NIGGAS!!!! THEY’RE NOTHING BUT DISPOSABLE PRODUCT!!!! ONLY THERE TO MAKE A QUICK BUCK FOR YOUR FAVORITE EXECUTIVE KIKE!!!! AND I KNOW B.DOT CAUGHT A WOODY WHEN THE SHREWD JEW TALKED ABOUT JAY Z!!!! FUCK YO WEAK PODCAST AND FUCK YO SUBSCRIPTION!!!! AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, FUCK THE BOTH OF YA’LL!!!!

    #BENSON #YELLOWSCUM

    DON’T HATE ON MY OPINION!!!!

    1. Mainframe says:

      ^^ written from his mom’s basement

      1. THE REAL mac DIESEL says:

        ACTUALLY WRITTEN FROM YA MOMMA’S BEDROOM!!!! I GET FREE WI-FI AND BLOWJOBS OVER THERE!!!! LMAO!!!! DIE SLOW, FUCKBOY!!!!

        DON’T HATE ON MY OPINION!!!!

    2. diggz says:

      FLAG THIS FUCKIN RACIST CUNT

    3. diggz says:

      GET OFF THE SITE NO ONE WANTS YOU HERE

  19. yung ro says:

    these podcasts are dope and i think important to us newer generations (i was born 1992) to take note from some episodes, like the the lyor one. regardless if you like him or not, its important to study his successes and understand how many careers he’s been apart of.

    good for the culture and curators, and the pipeline is definitely over flooded!

  20. Yahza Cat says:

    This nigga talks to much his voice is annoying…not gonna even bring up the laughf

  21. Yahza Cat says:

    if blacks could get the investments that jews get we could almost block out whites from our music and build our own teams….but thats why the wealth in america stays locked in the same grey no i mean white area

    1. Razorr Ramon says:

      Lmao Hilarious. Blacks can get those but rather buy jewelry and cars. That’s what blacks will never move up. Arabs come here with less and get it popping

      1. Yahza Cat says:

        Well im one black that would invest wisely…and if u pay attention i said those that need investments….and foreigners like arabs have tax free exemptions for years and get loans from their own country before even getting here koreans do the same thing….

  22. France Ortelli says:

    Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit
    Kill this laugh dammit

  23. yorapper says:

    Isn’t their a viral video of Fetty sounding horrible live?

  24. yorapper says:

    Lyor is such a snake oil salesmen.

  25. suba suba says:

    Very neat article.Really looking forward to read more. Keep writing.

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