Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

On a summer day in Los Angeles in 1993, Rick Rubin presided over an audience of music’s greatest minds to host a funeral for ...

Russell Simmons visits the Build Series in 2017 in New York City (Credit: Michael Loccisano/Getty Images) Russell Simmons has been sued for rape by a former senior music executive and video producer ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image via Def Jam Def Jam Recordings is one of the most storied record labels in history, and now fans can celebrate its heritage ...

Clipse have confirmed that their long-awaited reunion album Let God Sort Em Out will no longer be released through Def Jam, following a dispute centered around Kendrick Lamar’s guest verse. In a ...

Disgraced music mogul Russell Simmons is at the center of a new lawsuit that alleges he raped a former Def Jam Recordings employee in his Manhattan apartment during the 1990s. The complaint, filed ...

A former Def Jam employee has sued Kevin Liles, alleging he assaulted her during his tenure as President of the label in the early 2000s. Kevin Liles is facing a lawsuit from a former Def Jam ...

That Drake and Kendrick Lamar beef might’ve happened last year, but it keeps haunting the Hip-Hop community in the craziest ways. This time around, tensions between the two rappers are forcing record ...

Trailblazing rapper Boss, who brought West Coast gangsta rap fervor to the Def Jam Recordings roster in the early 1990s, has died. No cause of death has been revealed. She was 54. News of the Detroit ...

Def Jam hosted a party on June 24 in Los Angeles. The major label hosted many artists at the event as well. Stars in attendance included Wale, Jeezy, Davion Farris, D Smoke, GaTa, Jadakiss, Armani ...

Lichelle Laws, who became Def Jam West’s first female wrapper under her stage name of BO$$, died Monday in a Michigan hospital. She was 54. A family spokesperson told The Detroit News that Laws died ...

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 ...