Before Fashawn inked his deal with Nas' Mass Appeal record imprint, the West Coast emcee was a highly-touted free agent being courted by a number of different labels.
Fashawn says back in 2009 he wound up in the offices of Def Jam and had a strange encounter -- executives from the label told him not to take a deal with the company.
"I was at the Def Jam offices, they invited me up to the Def Jam office. I'm walking through, I'm just looking at the history of Def Jam: LL Cool J, DMX, [Jay Z], Nas, you name it. They invited me just to tell me that I shouldn't sign with them, that I should not sign with Def Jam," he told HHDX. "I'm not gonna name any names specifically of who told me that but they invited me and said like, 'You're an artist of quality and you're like a really innovative artist. We're all big fans of you in the office, but don't come over here,' basically. That was just the weirdest thing ever to me. I don't know."
Nas announced the signing of Fashawn last month.
Source: HHDX
