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Thee Album for AllMusic, Steve Huey has referred to the songs "Time 4 Sum Aksion" and "Rated R" as "slamming party jams". Its chorus is a repetition of the phrase "time for some action", which is sampled from Cypress Hill 's song " How I Could Just Kill a Man ", which itself sampled Lowell Fulson 's song " Tramp ".
In mid-January 1999, following the merger of PolyGram and MCA-related labels into Universal Music Group, Def Jam's operations as a label were merged with Island and Mercury Records to become the Island Def Jam Music Group. The umbrella name didn't hold copyrights on Def Jam releases until the summer of that year.
In traditional music, repetition is a device for creating recognizability, reproduction for the sake of the music notes of that specific line and the representing ego. In repetitive music, repetition does not refer to eros and the ego, but to the libido and to the death instinct." Repetitive music has also been linked with Lacanian jouissance.
Def Soul Records was an R&B-based division of American multinational record label Def Jam Recordings.It was formed in 1996 by Russell Simmons and Kevin Liles to expand R&B and soul music through Def Jam's said genre-related roster following the successes of Montell Jordan and Case.
Def Jam was co-founded by Rick Rubin in his dormitory in Weinstein Hall at New York University, [3] and its first release was a single by his punk-rock group Hose. Russell Simmons joined Rubin shortly after they were introduced to each other, according to one story, by Vincent Gallo. [4]
Rae Khalil, a Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter, has signed to Def Jam Recordings via Anderson .Paak’s Apeshit label. The R&B singer and hip-hop also has shared her debut single and music ...
After Ja Rule finalized the recording of the album, Ja Rule's record label Def Jam, did not consider any song on the album worthy of marketing as a single.Despite his surprise at this, admitting in an interview with Complex magazine that he "didn’t grasp the idea of making a radio record", he resumed recording sessions to compose what became "Holla Holla".
Venni Vetti Vecci is the debut studio album by American rapper Ja Rule.It was released on June 1, 1999, by Def Jam Recordings and Irv Gotti's Murder Inc. Records.It was the first album to be released on Murder Inc. Production was mostly handled by Irv Gotti (who also executive produced the album), with additional work provided by Lil Rob, Ty Fyffe, Erick Sermon and Self Service.