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Magic Johnson Reacts After Close Friend Receives Major Honor originally appeared on Athlon Sports. Last week, the world’s ...
Russell Simmons says he was “shocked” to learn T La Rock and Jazzy Jay’s 1984 single “It’s Yours” was produced by Rick Rubin, ...
A look at how Rick Rubin went from a hardcore punk guitarist to a hip-hop music mogul via discovering LL Cool J and putting out his first hit 'I Need a Beat'.
Justin Bieber and Scooter Braun’s story was a classic music industry fairytale: An ambitious young manager plucks a young prodigy out of obscurity and makes him a star. Their lives and careers have ...
Pusha T said Def Jam “halted” Clipse’s comeback album because of Kendrick Lamar’s “Chains & Whips” verse amid UMG's lawsuit ...
Logic recently claimed that he intentionally created low-effort songs to terminate his contract with Def Jam Recordings, a ...
Together with Lyor Cohen, who was already working with Rush Management, Def Jam Recordings began to take shape. They eventually convinced a radio program director from Adelphi University’s WBAU ...
Al B. Sure! shares the crazy story of calling #DefJam from Eddie F's basement and getting roasted by Dr. Jekyll. He talks ...
EXCLUSIVE: Def Jam Recordings' first president, Bill Stephney, EPMD's Parish Smith and The Bomb Squad's Keith Shocklee were ...
Naturally, Def Jam got a cut of the new Clipse deal as the record industry is shady, but in the end, we’ll be getting a new Clipse album and a Kendrick Lamar-featured cut in “Whips & Chains ...
Yesterday, Clipse made waves when GQ revealed that they have left Def Jam Recordings amid a spat over Kendrick Lamar’s appearance on their upcoming Let God Sort Em Out project. The Virginia duo ...
In a new interview with GQ, the two brothers talk in depth about impending project, why they left Def Jam Recordings and their current standing with Kanye West.Pusha T and West once had a ...