Chainz’s ‘Red Clay’ Short Film and Soundtrack Celebrate Atlanta’s Resilience Hip-hop mogul 2 Chainz just dropped the official ...

Ludacris spoke to PEOPLE at the Waymo x Uber event in Atlanta, Ga., about the making of his debut album, 'Incognegro.' ...

The image at the top of this post doesn’t really have anything to do with “Chains & Whips,” the new Clipse/Kendrick Lamar collaboration that still hasn’t actually been released. Instead ...

The issue allegedly was a verse from Kendrick Lamar on the song "Chains & Whips." With Drake about to sue Def Jam's parent company UMG for defamation over Lamar's diss track "Not Like Us," and ...

But Def Jam had been picking up steam and in 1985-86, the label was more focused on Beastie Boys’ explosive debut, Licensed To Ill, the first rap album to top the Billboard 200 and second to ...

Russell Simmons says he was “shocked” to learn T La Rock and Jazzy Jay’s 1984 single “It’s Yours” was produced by Rick 41 years ago, Def Jam, rap's most influential record label ...

Logic has admitted to “half-assing” the last songs he needed put out to get out of his deal with Def Jam Recordings. On a skit from his new joint album with Juicy J, Live and in Color, Logic ...

Clipse manager, Steven Victor, revealed that they had to pay Def Jam a ton of money to get their freedom.

- On June 2, 2025, Clipse—the Virginia hip-hop duo of Pusha T and No Malice—announced their departure from Def Jam Recordings over a dispute involving a Kendrick Lamar verse on their upcoming ...

Clipse have revealed that their departure from Def Jam was reportedly sparked by a dispute over Kendrick Lamar’s guest verse on their upcoming album, "Let God Sort Em Out".

Pusha T and Malice tell us they left Def Jam because the label objected to a Kendrick Lamar verse on their first Clipse album since 2009 ...