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Does the world truly need more hip hop video games (anyone remember Fight for NY?)? Enter Def Jam Rap Star, which is expected to be released on October 5th on the Wii, PS3, and Xbox 360 platforms.  While previous rap centric video games did not have an intense focus on social interaction, Def Jam Rap [...]

I told ya’ll a few weeks back that KRS-One had lost his damn mind. More confirmation via interview on the VH1 Hip Hop Honors red carpet is below. In this short clip, he explains, “Def Jam is the dopest label in hip-hop, in the culture of hip-hop. There really would be no hip-hop as we [...]

Footage from the VH1 Hip Hop Honors pre-party, 09.22.2009, NYC The 2009 VH1 Hip Hop Honors will premiere on VH1 October 13, 2009 and honors Def Jam Records. Tracy Morgan is scheduled to host, and the show will also feature performances from DMX (seriously?  no), Eminem, Fabulous, Gym Class Heroes, Ja Rule (what the f…), [...]

My boy, Jay-Z has left Def Jam in order to pursue and release Blueprint 3 outside of their broke ass empire.  Why?  Jay doesn’t exactly indicate.  I figure there are probably a few things going on: Def Jam is going under.  It was reported somewhere in late 2008 that the record label was millions… no, [...]