While millions
of fans are not complaining about today’s (Oct. 6) leak of Jay-Z’s single "Show Me What You Got" his label, Def Jam is taking the breach seriously and may pursue legal
action against the individual responsible for the leak.While
no one knows who the culprit behind the leak is, sources told AllHipHop.com that
Def Jam has launched an internal investigation, fearing that the rapper’s forthcoming
comeback album Kingdom Come may be leaked in its entirety. "The
FBI may do an investigation into this," an anonymous source told AllHipHop.com.
"Everything has been under lock and key, so we have no idea how the single
was leaked.""Show
Me," which samples a saxophone loop originally used on Public Enemy’s "Show
Em Whatcha Got" from the group’s 1988 Def Jam album It Takes a Nation
of Millions to Hold Us Back, hit the Internet today and quickly went into
rotation on radio stations around the United States.The
single, which was produced by Just Blaze, gained immediate and repeated airplay
on stations in Philadelphia, New York, Los Angeles and Atlanta.
"I played it six times in a row at 6:00 pm today," Atlanta DJ Greg Street
told AllHipHop.com. Street, who airs on Atlanta’s V103 Monday through Thursday
in the 6-10pm slot, said the feedback has been tremendous. "It
was so crazy [Island/Def Jam Music Group CEO] LA Reid & [Def Jam A&R]
Shakir Stewart called into V-103’s hotline," Street said.Jay-Z
himself was told of the leak during a performance at the Accra International Conference
Center in Ghana, Africa. Unauthorized
full length albums from The Roots, Pharrell and Lupe Fiasco have all found their
way to the Internet prior to hitting stores. Lupe
Fiasco’s Food & Liquor was pushed back several times, after the original
version was leaked and bootlegged months before the album’s completion.Jay-Z’s
Kingdom Come will reportedly hits stores Nov. 21. The album features production
by Just Blaze, Kanye West, Pharrell, Timberland and others.