In 2005, Dipset moved away from Roc-A-Fella after Jay-Z assumed presidency of Def Jam, which they took issue with.
Even though the Diplomats/Koch partnership seemed financially improved over the Roc-A-Fella deal, only co-founder Jim Jones became the most successful Dipset artist under that deal; one notice was his single, "We Fly High" (2006) scoring among the Billboard top ten and going platinum the following year.
[11][12] Diplomat Records doesn't have traditional distribution in the sense that each of its artists have deals with individual labels.
[13] Also in 2005, when co-founder Cam'ron parted ways with Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam and signed with Warner Music Group's Alternative Distribution Alliance-distributed Asylum Records,[14] he secured that his albums to be released under Diplomat Records,[15] while also securing any future Diplomat group albums under Koch, with the exclusion of Juelz Santana, due to his obligations with Def Jam.
[16] Former president Freekey Zekey[17][18] also released his debut album on Diplomat with distribution coming from Koch.