Enter Tunji Balogun, the Chairman and CEO of Def Jam, who has been on a mission to reshape the label’s future. Balogun stepped into the role in January 2022, inheriting a label with “a lot of ...

Music mogul Russell Simmons has been sued by a former Def Jam Recordings executive who says the label co-founder raped her at his apartment in the mid-1990s. The plaintiff, identified as Jane Doe ...

“When I started Def Jam,” Rubin told the New York Times ... as managers and record label executives. “White people have played more of a role on the business side than as artists because ...