Abou "Bu" Thiam talks managing Kanye and Chris Brown, his BuVision label with Atlantic Records and more in a new interview ...

It wasn’t a linear journey to a Clipse reunion. Malice left to follow his faith after the duo’s Til the Casket Drops album, ...

Pain, praising the two-time Grammy winner as a "pioneer" of his field. "Random thought," Brown, whose Breezy Bowl XX stadium ...

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 ...

Warren G was “critical” to landing the deal with PolyGram and severing ties with CBS Records (now re-branded as Sony), who still owned 50 percent of Def Jam.

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'.

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

Logic has admitted to “half-assing” the last songs he needed put out to get out of his deal with Def Jam Recordings. On a skit from his new joint album with Juicy J, Live and in Color, Logic ...

Rapper Pusha T recently speculated on why Def Jam tried to block Kendrick Lamar's heavily anticipated verse on Chains & Whips from Clipse's upcoming album, Let God Sort 'Em Out.

Photograph by Harry Allen, American, born 1964 Subject of Bill Stephney, American, born 1962 Def Jam Recordings, American, founded 1984 Description A black and white photograph of Bill Stephney.

Public Enemy have returned with their first album in five years, which they surprise released today as a pay-what-you-want ...