Def Jam Recordings

...a significant chapter in hip-hop history over the last 25 years without talking about Def Jam." The company didn't just stop with one genre. Def Jam was purchased by the Universal Music Group in 2000 and was merged with Island Records to...

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...of a key part of UMG subsidiary, Island Def Jam, where he led the growth of its roster of artists and record labels, including Def Jam, Island Records, Roc-A-Fella, Lost Highway, The Inc, American, and Def Soul (including Def Soul Classics...

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...$5.6 billion. PolyGram embarked on a new program of acquisitions, including A&M and Island Records in 1989, Swedish company Polar Music which held the rights to the ABBA catalogue, Motown in 1993, Def Jam in 1994 and Rodven (Venezuela) in 1995.

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...Project Born had previously been released on the label. It was released nationally in America by Def Jam (in conjunction with Island Records) on June 22, 1999, and peaked at #8 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart and #149 on the Billboard 200 .

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...and Polygram, had become part of the Universal Music Group who subsequently merged Island Records and Def Jam Recordings forming the new Island Def Jam label. The band, unhappy with the way the newly formed label had been handling them,...

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...Zakia Records in 1986. After Def Jam Recordings founder Russell Simmons heard the single, the duo were signed to Island Records and began recording the album in Manhattan's Power Play Studios in early 1987. Rakim wrote his songs in...

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...of Def Jam. In 1999 , Def Jam created an R&B spin-off label called Def Soul Records, which inherited many of Island Records' urban artists, including Dru Hill and its lead singer Sisqo, The Isley Brothers and Kelly Price. Def Soul also...

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Every Six Seconds Every Six Seconds is an album by the band Saliva . It is their second album and first under the Def Jam/Island Records label. The album shows the band in their then nu metal sound. The album marks the last nu metal album the...

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