Rappers like Kendrick Lamar, Eminem and Drake are among some of the richest celebrities in the world. They have built their fortunes through scores of albums, global tours, shrewd ...

She released her first and only studio album, "Born Gangstaz," in 1993. Bo$$, a rapper best known for her 1993 album Born Gangstaz and for being the first female rapper to sign with Def Jam, has died.

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"But we make black music first ... hip-hop", renaming him Irv Gotti in reference to the mafia boss John Gotti. His next move was to sign gravel-voiced rapper DMX to the legendary rap label Def Jam ...

LiAngelo Ball is the first breakout rapper of 2025, though up until now, he was better known as a basketball player. Def Jam, who reportedly signed Ball to a record deal (including his own label ...

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Taylor Swift has arrived at the 2025 Grammys. The 14-time Grammy Award-winning singer walked the red carpet in a one-shoulder ...

Gotti and his brother Christopher Lorenzo founded Murder Inc., an imprint of Def Jam, in 1998 ... and has been a hip-hop eminence for four decades. Now, with his first album in 11 years, he ...

On Monday morning, Ball signed with Def Jam and Universal Music Group ... It's 2005 and you just won the championship. The first song on the playlist is rapper Mike Jones' "Back Then" and ...

In a 2018 interview with GRAMMY.com, Dupri talked about his first ... Def with Kris Kross as one its featured artists. The label would go on to launch the careers of successful R&B and hip-hop ...