Someone educate me on why Lyor is the devil again.
Aside from Dame Dash (who has a problem with everyone) most artists he works with show him love
Get a chance to listen to Foxy's interview o Wendy Williams from 2003.......when she broke down crying on the air, cause she had just lost a child (miscarriage)...and really was frustrated over Lyor and Def Jam and wanted to take a hiatus and just leave...
Foxy also told Wendy that she asked Def Jam CEO Lyor Cohen to let her
out of
her recording contract. "His response was, 'Over my dead body am I
letting
you go. You're stuck.' And I called him a devil and he hung up
on
That's just one of MANY grieviences artists have had against LYOR since the mid 80's, when Russell Simmons hired him to help wrangle Def Jam out of it's debt to CBS as well as manage the affairs of Run DMC, the Beasties and others under RUSH MANAGEMENT since he did start off as Run Dmc's tour manager
but these are his WORST OFFENSES:
5. Influenced Russell into creating the Rush Management division which was the biggest most historical conflict of interest music management deal in hip hop history….
Rush Management was basically an extension of Def Jam managing Def Jam artists as well as controlling various deejays such as DJ Chuck Chillout of Kiss fm whom help push many Def jam acts i.e (P.E, LL COOL J and others) in violation of FCC guidelines and payola statues
6. Caused the internal and eternal rift that separated longtime friends and founders Russell Simmons and Rick Rubin , by making Rubin seem irrelevant and outdated in terms of conducting the business affairs and creativity of the def jam brand i.e (artistic development was officially DEAD when Lyor had his way).
7. Disrespected Chuck D. by having Def Jam BLOCK Public Enemy from releasing their album on the net, in spite of P.E not being sought to renew their contract and lack of DEF JAM support for PE’s latter releases…