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R&B singer JoJo and rapper Álvaro Díaz will join LL COOL J and Jazmine Sullivan on the Wawa Welcome America stage for the July 4th Philly concert.

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, ...

TheCoca-Cola Company is partnering with Universal Music Group (UMG) to launch real thing records. (rtr), a new record label ...

After falling in love with golf, Modi Oyewole launched Swang to introduce the sport to people who look like him.

Logic makes his directorial debut in "Paradise Records." The artist tells USA TODAY how therapy, J.J. Abrams and others helped him with the film.

The Clipse Claim They Were Dropped By Def Jam Over Kendrick Lamar Feature On New Album The Clipse Were Dropped By Def Jam Over Kendrick Feature ...

"They wanted me to ask Kendrick to censor his verse, which of course I was never doing,” Pusha T said in an interview GQ, adding that he and Clipse left the label over the disagreement.

I can feel her discomfort from Charlamagne’s comments about Def Jam [sort of] dropping the ball on a few things, but he isn’t wrong. Labels REALLY need to do better with their talent.” ...

in which we spoke to LL Cool J and Def Jam CEO Tunji Balogun as both artist and label celebrate their shared 40th anniversaries. "He’s rapping his ass off on this album,” Balogun told Music Week.

Def Jam Chairman/CEO Tunji Balogun plans to turn the iconic label into the premiere destination for "global Black music." Def Jam Chairman/CEO Tunji Balogun is laying out his big plans for the ...

Jeffrey Harleston, executive vp of business affairs/general counsel of the label’s parent company, Universal Music Group (UMG), ran Def Jam on an interim basis — which coincided with the ...