Jay-Z talks about Roc Nation’s distribution and the marketing of the Blueprint 3 album through Atlantic Records in a new Billboard.com article.

“Sony is Roc Nation. That’s where Roc Nation’s going through,” Jay-Z told Billboard.com on Friday (June 29).

As for the deal he recently signed with Atlantic, he clarifies that it is a one-off situation for his upcoming album, “Blueprint 3,” slated for a September 11th release.

“That’s pretty much just for this specific album. Roc Nation — we’re experts in marketing and making records. But we do distribution deals,” he says. “On this one, we’re working directly with the Atlantic staff, which is Julie [Greenwald], Lyor [Cohen], Kevin [Liles] and Kyse [Mike Kyser]. For the rest of the Roc Nation artists, we did a distribution deal with Sony.”

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With everyone else releasing a statement about Michael Jackson’s death last week we missed Paul McCartney’s.  If you didn’t know Paul and Michael were close friends until he was outbid by him in 1985 for about 200 Beatles songs.  Michael paid $47 million for the collection which some say may be worth as much as $1 billion dollars now….and there’s rumors circling about whether Michael planned to give some of it back to Paul.  Anyhow, here’s his statement:

“It’s so sad and shocking. I feel privileged to have hung out and worked with Michael. He was a massively talented boy man with a gentle soul. His music will be remembered forever and my memories of our time together will be happy ones.  I send my deepest sympathy to his mother and the whole family and to his countless fans all around the world.”

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