Universal Music shuts down Island Def Jam Records. Fires Def Jam CEO

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Is this the consumer's fault?

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

If they drop projects from Rihanna, Kanye, Jeezy, Frank and Jhene Aiko on top of the Ross and YG albums they could do alright. Kanye's new album is supposed to be a lot more mainstream than Yeezus so that should help.

Everyones knows major labels are imploding and with the lackluster year DJ had in 2013 this really shouldn't be a surprise.

Aiko ain't gonna do anything.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

fukk irv gotti,...
he helped to systematically poison the box, and defjam.
now, he is upset.

nikka, stfu.


art barr

ehhhhhhhhhhh nah.

Irv added more to the culture than anything though. Dude was doing numbers, which is what matters.

 

[ZEupTWN]

Irv and same together black excellence

irv part of the reason def jam is where its currently at

 

[bouncy]

ehhhhhhhhhhh nah.

Irv added more to the culture than anything though. Dude was doing numbers, which is what matters.

No its not, making a profit is what matters. You can make a profit without selling out the music, at least in a major way. A lot of artist put out cheap shyt, and hype it up to sell. You can tell it was cheap shyt because no one is even mentioning most of his shyt now. Its not like he didn't have the talent, be just was greedy.

 

[ahomeplateslugger]

eh, def jam has been falling off since russell and rick left. they just dont have the artist development and creativity to help produce quality artists like they used to.

 

[jerzboy]

Another take away from this article.... The music scene as a whole is dead in NYC. Everything on the creative side of labels seems to happen out west, everything business wise happens here.

 

[dubsmith_nz]

Aiko ain't gonna do anything.

Aiko's almost on 200k off an EP with little to no promotion and has already had a single in the top 50 in 2014. I'd say they're banking off her already.

 

[ORDER_66]

As much as irv gotti fukked up, he got alot of things right. I would love to see what would happen if dame and irv got control of def jam currently we need hard new york hiphop this soft ass drake simpin shyt is killing me!

 

[thewave]

listen def jam and their fake ass sales is what destroyed themselves dating back to the 90s. they was spending more than what they were taking in. dmx ja jay their crews, kanye (especially) jeezy luda ALL them dudes numbers were boosted and a lot of money was spent to keep them dudes up to that image

 

[KG1]

Pecas gonna get a raise?

 

[Animal House]

Bumpy Knuckles been called out Def Scam years ago on Industry Shakedown. But damn i remember when Def Jam caught its second wind in the late 90's. Golden Era memories.
Oynx
Jayo Felony
Red and Mef
Jigga
X
Def Squad
The Soundtracks
There were others but im high

 

[⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐]

There's a great misunderstanding of what happened here, mostly implied by the thread title

but nothing was shut down . . the entities were restructured. Basically a controlled split, all done and managed under the "UMG umbrella" (aka 'the higher ups'). Now all of these companies will operate within the parameters of their set guidelines

 

[tremonthustler1]

As much as irv gotti fukked up, he got alot of things right. I would love to see what would happen if dame and irv got control of def jam currently we need hard new york hiphop this soft ass drake simpin shyt is killing me!

Dame couldn't even run his own label right again when he got the chance.

The best rap minds in NY either don't have the wherewithal to keep building, the financial backing to progress or run shyt on a smaller scale like A$AP Yams

 

[The Prince of All Saiyans]

This is the man determining what we listen too .

ya cause for the past 10+ years def jam has nothing but a power house with their releases