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IS JAY-Z LEAVING DEF JAM FOR COLUMBIA?: Mogul reportedly trying to get away from Jermaine Dupri.
*The arrival of Jermaine Dupri as president of the Island Urban music division in February has apparently rankled the president of Island’s Def Jam label, Jay-Z.
The New York Daily News is quoting sources who confirm that Jay-Z is in talks to join rival label Columbia Records, in part to get some distance from Dupri’s kingdom under the same Island umbrella.
"There isn't room for two kings at one label," says a source. "Why would Island bring in another power-hitter urban guy?"
Ironically, Dupri’s girlfriend Janet Jackson recently left Virgin two weeks ago and followed signed with Dupri’s Island Urban, while Columbia is the label home of Jay-Z’s girlfriend, Beyonce.
Also, Columbia’s new co-chairman Rick Rubin has been looking to shake up the label’s A&R department.
"He's creating a supergroup of staff," a second source tells Daily News column Gatecrasher. "So it would make sense that he would want Jay on his side."
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