Basketball player-turned-rapper LiAngelo Ball has signed an $8 million label deal with Def Jam Recordings following the viral ...

Ball is far from the only athlete to find success in the music industry, but the massive popularity of his song puts him in ...

Starting his career at just 15 years old with the breakout demo single “I Need A Beat,” LL Cool J has remained a cornerstone of Hip Hop for four decades. His ability to deliver timeless hits while ...

Producer Rick Rubin possesses a wealth of musical knowledge in many genres, but there's one band he feels offers more reward ...

Record label market share stats for 2024 are out, with Taylor Swift's Tortured Poets Department leading REPUBLIC to an industry-leading share overall.

This year brought us great albums ... s Def Jam debut Everybody Can’t Go finds him cleaning up his gritty boom bap revival and coming out with his version of those early 2000s records by rappers ...

New releases to look forward to in the coming months, from the Weeknd, FKA twigs, Lana Del Rey, LCD Soundsystem, Lorde, and ...

RCA, headed by co-presidents Glyn Aikins and Stacey Tang, was in second place for combined consumption in 2024 with a 10% share. Significantly, though, the Sony Music UK company did wrestle back its ...

When you’re at the top of your game, the public just can’t help but draw comparisons. And with Beyoncé dominating the music ...

For this list, I only listed albums or mixtapes (whatever that means ... Benny The Butcher’s debut album with Def Jam Records doesn’t mute or clean up the grit and grime he’s known to ...

Not all of his albums have reached the same level of ... as they are called today, Def Jam Recordings. As expected, he was the first signed to the label, followed by massive hip-hop artists ...