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"Jay-Z has left Def Jam Records after a decade on their books, it has been reported. The artist was under contract for one more album but bought the remainder out for $5 million, MTV News reports.  Jay-Z thanked the label heads Doug Morris and L.A. Reid for his time at the company and added that he &amp;quot;respects&amp;quot; them &amp;quot;immensely&amp;quot;. The rapper also claimed that the negotiations included a coin toss. &amp;quot;Doug won the toss, but we both won in the end. I thank him for allowing me to be a completly independent artist. Not every artist can say they own or are given the opportunity to own all their own music,&amp;quot; he said.  The musician also owns his own record company, Roc Nation, and has been working on his next album, Blueprint 3, with Kanye West since 2008. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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