Y'all Jimmy Cozier. He was one of the first artists signed to J Records back in the day.



It was him and Olivia (before she went G Unit on ya ass!).

Peep his video for "She's All I Got."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gUHa4wKFZU

That shit was pretty slick. But what wasn't so slick was his departure from the label. I am suppose to talk Jimmy this week to hear all about what it's really like working with music empresario Clive Davis, what he's been doing since then and what he is contributing to the forthcoming Mya album.

Of course Jimmy is dropping his own album. As dope as he is known to be behind the scenes, I am sure he saved some of that crack for his own project. It's called Perfect Timing, and features appearances from Olivia, Alicia Keys and Keyshia Cole.

The first single is "U Got Them Goods" featuring Jim Jones ((((BALLIN'!!!!))))

Get it here.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/eozit8

So what say you....

Put this up against what you like in R&B and what you expect from an artist with his experience and answer this....
"U Got Them Goods" featuring Jim Jones....

RUSH IT or FLUSH IT?

Posted by SOHH Soul Man on February 6, 2007 12:05 PM | Permalink

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Wednesday - February 21, 2007 by Kevin R. Scott
Monica

As Monica prepared to shoot the video for her next single, "Sideline Ho" the Atlanta based singer got with SOHH for an exclusive chat on her working relationship with Clive Davis, her status at J Records and what she would do differently.

Recently word has been spreading that Clive Davis wasn't in support of Monica's new image and single, "Sideline Ho."

"It's easy for people to forget but Clive Davis and I have had a long standing relationship. My relationship stared with Clive almost 13 years ago and we have a good working relationship. Even if there are things that we don't agree on, it's almost like a marriage, you agree to disagree and you keep it moving," Monica told SOHH.

After The Makings of Me disappeared from the Billboard charts and a video of her asking fans to petition J Records to finance her third video surfaced online, rumors began to fly that Monica would be dropped from her label for breaking with the girl next door image the label had painted of her.

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"At the time rumors started there was nothing even taking place. We just decided to say what we had to say and move on and started writing treatments for the 'Sideline Ho' video."

Looking back, Monica admitted she would have re-worked her strategy, not allowing her label to influence the selection of her singles and look to her fans for opinions.

"If I had to do something over again, I'd probably release more than one single and let the audience choose which one they would have wanted to hear," she admits.

In related news former J Records crooner Jimmy Cozier recently spoke exclusively with SOHH about his own difficulty when it came to getting support from the label.

"They would say my songs were 'too hood' or 'too street 'or 'it's not pop enough,'" Cozier said. "It got to a point to where a check was like a band aid. If Jimmy's upset, write him a check. It was like my concerns were written off with a check. After a while I was like, 'I can't.' I got with my lawyers and asked to be released from my contract."

source: http://www.sohh.com/articles/article.php/10958

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