Def Jam: The First 25 Years Of The Last Great Record Label
The new book that I co-authored with Bill Adler and Cey Adams — Def Jam: The First 25 Years Of The Last Great Record Label (Rizzoli) — is out this week. (Click HERE to buy the book.) So much more than a “coffee table” book, it’s a comprehensive oral history of the label. The book […]
VIDEO: 5 Hip-Hop Business Tragedies
In the latest installment of The Big Payback video series, I explore five tragedies of the hip-hop business, including: The Eclipse of Sugar Hill Records The Demise of Macola Records Public Enemy’s Raw Deals The Black-Owned Distributor Fails The Death of KDAY Get more of the story below! Play it, embed it, circulate it! Peep […]