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Def Jam 2000 was the featured name for Def Jam on Def Jam albums from 1998 until its end in December 2000. Also in 1999, the label began to distribute releases by Murder Inc. Records , the newly-founded label run by former Def Jam A&R executive and record producer Irv Gotti .
Russell Wendell Simmons (born October 4, 1957) is an American entrepreneur, writer and record executive.He co-founded the hip-hop label Def Jam Recordings, [1] and created the clothing fashion lines Phat Farm, Argyleculture, and Tantris.
Rubin founded Def Jam Recordings while in college at New York University. [8] He moved on to form the band Hose, influenced by San Francisco's Flipper, where he played guitar. In 1982, a Hose track became Def Jam's first release, a 45 rpm 7" vinyl single in a brown paper bag, and no label. [9]
After helping Def Jam with the success of DMX, Jay-Z, and Ja Rule, Russell Simmons gave Irv Gotti his own label under Def Jam. While watching Biography on A&E during gangster week, a Murder, Inc. logo appeared on the screen, inspiring Irv to name his label after the organized crime group, paralleling his desire to put out hit records to the crime group's purpose of putting out contract hits.
Irv Gotti, the Murder Inc Records co-founder and producer behind some of the biggest hits of the Nineties and Noughties, has died aged 54. ... “His contributions at Def Jam, as both an A&R ...
An icon in the music industry, he was a producer and record executive who founded Murder Inc. Records in 1998. At that label, an imprint of Def Jam Recordings, ...
In 1983, Simmons formed Def Jam Recordings along with Rush Artist Management, ... RushCard was founded in 2003, with co-founders such as Russell Simmons.
Def Jam Recordings confirmed Gotti's death in a social media post late Wednesday night, ... He was an executive producer on DMX's debut album, and he co-founded the record label Murder, Inc., ...