Joey Bada$$ speaks on how he got his name, what makes him groundbreaking and deciding to not sign to Roc Nation. Bada$$ speaks on it at 3:22. He had dreamed of being signed to Jay Z but a passage from Jay Z’s book influenced him not to. In the passage Jay Z talked about meeting Russell Simmons and thinking, “‘I don’t wanna be signed to this ni**a, I wanna BE this ni**a.” It takes a lot of confidence to pass on a deal from Jay Z at the age of 17.
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