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The hip hop duo DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince sold over 5.5 million records with the label, and became the first hip hop act to win a Grammy Award for "Parents Just Don't Understand" in 1989. By 1982, Calder was introduced to Barry Weiss , a young college graduate who took Calder out to hip-hop clubs in New York City for his job interview ...
Ruff Ryders Entertainment is an American hip hop record label and management company founded by siblings and record executives Joaquin "Waah", Darrin "Dee" and Chivon Dean in 1988. [2] It operated as a subsidiary of Universal, and distributed by Interscope Records, with Def Jam Recordings serving as the distributor for DMX albums.
Hip-hop became a best-selling genre in the mid-1990s and the top-selling music genre by 1999. Hip-hop became a category at the Grammy Awards in 1989 with the addition of the Best Rap Performance award and was given to DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince for their song "Parents Just Don't Understand". In 1990, they became the first hip-hop act to ...
Aftermath Entertainment is an American record label founded by hip hop producer and rapper Dr. Dre in 1996. It operates as a subsidiary of Universal Music Group , and is distributed through Interscope Records .
This is a category for record labels that primarily release hip hop music. Pages in category "Hip-hop record labels" The following 125 pages are in this category, out of 125 total.
This is a list of notable East Coast hip hop music record labels. American King Music, founded in 2006 by Mims; ASAP Worldwide, founded in 2011 by ASAP Rocky and ASAP Yams; Babygrande, founded in 2001 by DJ Chuck Wilson; Bad Boy Records, founded in 1993 by Sean Combs; Blacksmith Records, founded in 2005 by Talib Kweli and Cory Smith
Shawn Corey Carter (born December 4, 1969), known professionally as Jay-Z, [a] is an American rapper, businessman, and record executive. [8] [9] [10] Rooted in East Coast hip-hop, he was named the greatest rapper of all time by Billboard and Vibe in 2023. [11]
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