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 white Jewish kid attending college at New York University and making ...

But Def Jam had been picking up steam and in 1985-86, the label was more focused on Beastie Boys’ explosive debut, Licensed To Ill, the first rap album to top the Billboard 200 and second to ...

LiAngelo Ball reveals what the future of basketball looks like for him. Gelo pivoted into a rap career earlier this year.

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 ...

The image at the top of this post doesn’t really have anything to do with “Chains & Whips,” the new Clipse/Kendrick Lamar ...

Pusha T said Def Jam “halted” Clipse’s comeback album because of Kendrick Lamar’s “Chains & Whips” verse amid UMG's lawsuit ...

Record label legend L.A. Reid is stepping down as chairman of Island Def Jam to focus on his new gig as a judge on Simon Cowell’s US Version of “The X Factor.” According to Billboard.com ...

Last year, hp-hop mogul and Def Jam co-founder Russell Simmons was sued for an alleged rape of an unnamed Def Jam exec in the 1990s. It wasn’t the first lawsuit of its kind against Simmons, who ...

Simmons says that the 2020 film “On the Record,” a documentary about women accusing the Def Jam records co-founder of sexual misconduct, “willfully” ignored evidence “ including ...

Escape Room will constitute Taylor’s fourth album, following 2020’s The Album, as well as her return to music after feeling creatively overlooked and requesting a release from Def Jam in 2020 ...