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i blinked one day and I hear people talking about Def Jam like it's a liability...what happened?
When and Why did Def Jam fall off?
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Once Shakir killed himself.
LA Reid wasn't a rap guy.
LA Reid wasn't a rap guy.
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You realize he signed Rihanna and kept Kanye in the fold, right?
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Yeah that was probably the last time they were dominant. They had some heavy hitters. Even the OG's who were disgruntled was still there like LL, Meth, Red, Ghostface........Def Jam roster was nice back then.
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Def Jam just went to the way of the game did. Like all the heavy hitters.....Interscope fell off too....Jive/RCA fell off........I guess Def Jam's biggest crime was it didn't gravitate to the Soundcloud rapper era that came.
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ironically LL cook J signed back to em.
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ill be honest.. jigga always felt like a figure head to me.
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I think he was a little more than that, but I don't think he was a normal president.
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Wait what?! Def Jam is still signing kids and still relevant today. They didn’t really fall off.
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they're not da Yankees anymore.....
it was one of da few places you used to able to blow without a crew.
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checking they website look like they gotta bunch of r&b singers and "old" rappers. look like they never jumped on the sound cloud wave now they stuck
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Relevant how?
They've become a legacy label like Motown.
The only thing really relevant about them is every time a Kanye or Rihanna drop, and Kanye doesn't sell like he used to for obvious reasons.
Look what they did or didn't do to 070 Shake.
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u telling me they should Jerry krause'd da roster before it got long in da tooth?
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Def Jam fell off then music changed. They didn't adapt and the new rap didn't fit their image. Signed the wrong people and got caught up too late. It's crazy seeing how irrelevant they are today.
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jay snake self is one of the reasons for the fall off
and i dont EVEN wanna get into the shakir conspiracy
he aint kill himself
just know that
and i dont EVEN wanna get into the shakir conspiracy
he aint kill himself
just know that
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if i do something like that id need a co-host or 2.
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holla at ya boy
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ain't u on da west coast?
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They are no longer the leaders of this ish.....like Ninja said, they are no longer the Yankees.
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a new def jam vendetta video game would bring the label back up lmao
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Shakir was the last person that was signing new acts(south artist).
After him they did stuff like sign dudes who had one song instead of people who had talent or could blow with a backing.
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