GOAT rap label

[Cool DOC]

No other rap label matches up to Def Jam. They should be excluded.

If Benny put out a better album & restored the feeling, DJ woulda still been goated.

 

[Mac Ten]

Loud Records/SRC for me...

Steve Rifkind provided a home for the Mobb and Wu as well as Xzibit on the West.

In Fat Joe's book, he said how Steve grew in a Gangsta Family and how that stuff impressed him.

Signed Pun off the strength of Fat Joe's rep and signed the Mobb on the spot after they was in the bathroom rolling up blunts.




Rawkus gets a honorable mention from me...

It was Loud Records for the backpackers.

Those Soundbombing compilations weren't bad until the 3rd one.

Lyricist Lounge 2 was my favorite as well.

 

[DaveyDave]

When it's all said & done, even though it has fallen a long way in the last 10-15 years, the real answer has to be Def Jam. Death Row has a small but amazing catalogue, Loud should be up there IMO.

 

[Groundworks]

1: No Limit
2: Death Row
3: Bad Boy
4: Cash Money
5: Def Jam
6: Rap-a-Lot
7: Rocafella
8: Aftermath/Shady
10: So So Def

 

[pez]

A lot of artists don't identify as Def Jam artists. Maybe only LL Cool J. He's the real Def Jam artist. Wasn't RocaFella under Def Jam? DMX was Def Jam but I don't think he identifies as Def Jam. He's not like he rocked a Def Jam chain. He rocked Ruff Ryders. So Def Jam has the most under its umbrella but it's not the label that artists would rep like its their gang.

 

[BronxFleeZ]

No other rap label matches up to Def Jam. They should be excluded.

Like bruh is nikkas slow

 

[KnickstapeCity]

A lot of artists don't identify as Def Jam artists. Maybe only LL Cool J. He's the real Def Jam artist. Wasn't RocaFella under Def Jam? DMX was Def Jam but I don't think he identifies as Def Jam. He's not like he rocked a Def Jam chain. He rocked Ruff Ryders. So Def Jam has the most under its umbrella but it's not the label that artists would rep like its their gang.

 

[pez]

 

[jensyao]

 

[Woodrow]

The Chronic
Doggystyle
Above the Rim soundtrack
Dogg Food
All Eyez on Me
Makaveli

each of these albums can be considered the GOAT rap album except for Above the Rim (which is still one of the GOAT soundtracks)

It's Death Row easily.

do not play kid games with def jam's name.

Radio
Great Adventures of Slick Rick
It Takes a Nation of Millions...
Thug Motivation 101
License to Ill
Mama Said Knock You Out
Kanye's discography
DMX's discography
Hov's discography

 

[nieman]

DJ had a 20 year run. Even if you exclude their subsidiaries, it's still Def Jam, and not even close.

With that said, I'd go with Loud as #2

 

[Deadman187]

Death Row only lasted 5 years. By 98 Dre, Snoop and Kurupt all left, Suge was in Prison, Pac was dead, and Rage and Daz flopped.

The answer is easily Def Jam

 

[Tommy Gibbs]

There's def jam and then everyone else competing for 2nd place. To the original poster, how are you gong to have Def Jam AND Rocafella when Rocafella after Reasonable Doubt was under the Def Jam umbrella?

 

[Tommy Gibbs]

DJ had a 20 year run. Even if you exclude their subsidiaries, it's still Def Jam, and not even close.

With that said, I'd go with Loud as #2

no sir, Def Jam had more than a 20 year run. From LL's first single in 84 to 2016 is more than 20 years.

 

[NZA]

my personal favorite would be loud, but i think in reality it has to be between def jam and death row.