With the 2024 VMAs, MTV is marking a major milestone. This is the 40th annual Video Music Awards. The awards show isn’t the only thing celebrating 40 years this year. The groundbreaking hip-hop label ...
Def Jam Recordings' hip-hop history is unmatched. Forty years after getting into the music business, the label is celebrating its rich lineage with a special anniversary hub. Def Jam has created an ...
Def Jam Rapstar is co-published by Konami Digital Entertainment GmbH and Autumn Games. For more information of Def Jam Rapstar, including all tracks announced to date, please go to ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The performer, born Lichelle Marie Laws, was known as a hip-hop pioneer in the '90s West Coast music scene Raymond Boyd/Getty Bo$$ ...
Rap superstar Snoop Dogg is joining the legendary hip hop label Def Jam Recordings as executive creative and strategic consultant, the U.S. company said on Monday. adds TV in SLUG PARIS, June 7 ...
When Singapore's Yung Raja remixed "Gucci Gang" by US rapper Lil Pump, he swapped the original's flashy cars and a prowling tiger for a beer can and Tamil food in a viral YouTube video that reeled in ...
The complicated business of a video game that features rap songs. By Eriq Gardner Former Legal Editor-at-Large We can hardly imagine the difficulties of clearing a hip-hop song for use in a video game ...
LiAngelo Ball is the first breakout rapper of 2025, though up until now, he was better known as a basketball player. Def Jam, who reportedly signed Ball to a record deal (including his own label) ...
Universal Music’s Island Def Jam bought the other 50 percent of rap label Roc-A- Fella Records it doesn’t already own for $10 million. The purchase gives Universal control of a label that helped it ...