Uchiha God
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bet you think "knowing" hip-hop is having all kweli releases and going to b-boy competitions
Def Jam Executives at Dinner
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bet you think "knowing" hip-hop is having all kweli releases and going to b-boy competitions
fukkyalifestyle
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Coming from a guy with an anime avatar this is funny.bet you think "knowing" hip-hop is having all kweli releases and going to b-boy competitions
fukkyalifestyle
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why
GetInTheTruck
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well what were you expecting?
Sunalmighty
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White people from U.S. look cheesy as fukk. We've got nothing in common, it's like they are another race all together I swear. Europe >>>
Not even one of the spit at least on the sidewalk but they are running Def Jam
The blonde can get it whenever.
How you come to that conclusion? If I bust a cap in a niccas ass, I'm a savage. If you shoot up a school full of children, you have a mental health issue. It's called WHITE PRIVILEGE.
Awesome Wells
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Shamrock32
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Even beyond that though, like even if you just talk about the average fan of hip hop. You don't have to be a certain ethnicity to fall in love with any genre of music.
Obviously hip hop is generally looked at as "black music," but you can be a serious hip hop head and white at the same time. Like me
stop it.
there's a difference between "knowing" hip hop and being apart of the culture and UNDERSTANDING IT.
be honest with your self, 9/10 white people will never connect to hip hop on the level that people of color have/do because we have different experiences than people of color, specifically black people.
i guarantee you, most the people at that table dont give a fukk about black lives, they just wanna profit off it and exploit it.
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Loud Still Coolin
Suppose be a IT cert like you coli nikkaz
can somebody post def jam current roster? 
iseetrolledpeople
A silent witness to all this trolling going on.
What privileges does a white guy from fukking Romania have? Another thing Euro Whites don't have: that school shooting gene man. At least Eastern Euro.
Even CHUCK D. Is confused...and he is one of the artists that help build the "house of defjam"
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Truthurts.com
Yeah a lot of these YOUNG FOLKS on here have no recollection or knowledge of DEF JAM during those early years from its start in the early 80s
ART Barr might remember the black and grey colored 12 inch vinyls with the turntable logo
See DEF JAM started out as a ARTSY FARTSY HIPSTER DOWNTOWN MANHATTEN BRAND.....
Which explains its dabbling into rock and punk culture from its inception with groups like Slayer and the Beastie Boys
Rick Rubin being a MANHATTEN college student linked up with Russell Simmons a club promoter via thier mutual artistry Druggie friends whom were into film..art and cutting edge music of NYC (punk and rap)
In fact DEF JAM got DISSED by the other REAL BLACK OWNED STREET LABELS AND MOVEMENTS such as COLD CHILLIN RECORDS home of SHAN..G. Rap and the Juice Crew
As well as Pop Art Records outta Philly home of the Hilltop Hustlas I.e Steady B. Cool C...etc
I remember Mr. Magic of WBLS and a COLD CHLILLIN affiliate throwing darts at DEF JAM and RUSH for being "hollywood"...
Because it was obvious DEF JAM had deejay on the "payroll" such as Chuck Chill Out and various staff members at 98.7 kiss the rival of WBLS...one of the first instances of PAYOLA IN HIP HOP...
SO U SEE WHERE FUNKMASTER FLEX gets his INFLUENCE from and why he went hard DEFENDING DEF JAM exec Joey I.E Manda
Dougie Fresh and the get fresh crew took shots as well even at RUN DMC because of Rush/DEF JAM cutting out other movements or snatching up TALENT cause of thier long corporate bread and MAFIA backing ...see MICHAEL FRANCEZE
Simply cause THEY DIDNT REPRESENT THE STREETS..
..and had a BIG TIME DISTRIBUTION DEAL WITHIN A YEAR OF JUST OPENING SHOP at RICK RUBIN NYU DORM
ONLY OTHER EARLY NYC "RAP BRAND" that could compete with them at that time was SUGAR HILL RECORDS and they were SICIALIAN MAFIA OWNED anyway courtesy of MCA RECORDS and MORRIS LEVY
So they had Corporate Money from the jump and already had movie deals on the table like Krush Groove courtesy of Russell's and Rick socialite friends who were plugged in with Hollywood and Jew connects...which also explains LYOR COHEN feeling so comfortable enough to Finesse the label right out of Russell's hands and force Rick Rubin to run away..
Cause Lyor was really about the $$$..and Russell was head over heels in debt
Which is why it's not surprising when Russell says NOTHING NEGATIVE about LYOR cause in his own words LYOR saved him
In spite of the fact LYOR was robbing the company of its equity and sovereignty ..
So by the time the new millennium (2000) was coming in...Russ only was left with 35% stake in the company...HE HAD NO CHOICE BUT TO TAKE THAT 100 million DOLLAR buyout in 1999
1999 from UNIVERSAL
Which leads u to the picture u have now...
The illusion of a street movement which was nothing more than a urban spot with black shopkeepers I.e (Russell...Jay-z..No ID..Shakir...LA Reid) OWNED BY WHITE CORPORATE OVERSEERS
So sorry kiddies DEF JAM has NEVER been about the culture of hip hop from the streets
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